Jaipur: As prison guards sipped tea outside a Jaipur hotel lobby, a pair of high-profile inmates tucked into a leisurely breakfast — handcuffs stuffed discreetly into a backpack under the table.Across town, another duo lounged in a room booked under a woman’s name — one was a convicted extortionist’s confidant, the other his accomplice. The…

Jaipur: The death of a 23-year-old pregnant woman on Wednesday has revealed that the SMS Hospital failed to follow the standard operating procedures (SOPs) put in place by SMS Medical College following a similar fatal incident in Feb 2024.The most glaring omission was the ‘failure’ of the hospital administration to conduct a post-mortem despite being…

Jaipur: Congress’s chief whip in the state assembly, Rafeek Khan, Sunday said at a programme on the role of political parties in ensuring Right to Food that in the name of “Bangladeshi Rohingya”, many people were picked up by the state govt and police “wrongfully” and “falsely”.“An order came from above stating that Bangladeshi Rohingya…

Jaipur: A 25-year-old woman from West Bengal filed an FIR at the Ashok Nagar police station Saturday, alleging that she was lured to a man’s house in Jaipur with the promise of a job and later held hostage, assaulted, and pressured to sell her kidney.The FIR, registered at Ashok Nagar police station, states that the…

Jaipur: Rajasthan experienced unexpected weather changes as Nautapa, typically a nine-day intense heat wave period, began Sunday with rainfall and dust storms across most regions, except for some places in western parts of the state.Temperatures dropped approximately 4 degrees Celsius, with Jaipur recording a maximum below 40°C. Phalodi was the hottest place with a maximum…