Jaipur: The school education department has ordered to rename 40 govt schools whose names were deemed “objectionable” or inappropriate due to caste, community, or locality-based identifiers.According to an order issued Friday by Sita Ram Jat, director of elementary education, Bikaner, the decision follows recommendations from district education officers and local school management committees. The initiative…

Jaipur: Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Medical College has relieved three officials of their charge for negligence in maintaining SMS Hospital’s infrastructure, a day after the ceiling plaster collapsed in the surgery ward, causing injuries to two patients, on May 1. Dr Rashim Kataria has been removed from the post of nodal officer for Public Works…

Jaipur: Dust storms, hailstorms, and rainfall brought a pleasant change in weather across Rajasthan Saturday. Attributing the climatic change to active western disturbances and upper air cyclonic circulation, the Met office issued a rain alert for 12 districts Sunday. Hailstorms occurred at many places in Sikar and Nagaur districts. An average drop of almost nine…

Jaipur: Police’s special operations group (SOG) carried out a decoy operation over two days and detained three men for attempting to cheat NEET aspirants by falsely promising access to leaked exam papers. The arrests were made in Jaipur, Rajsamand, and Kota following the decoy operation.The three detained men were identified as Balwan Singh, resident of…

Jaisalmer: A Pakistan Rangers trooper was apprehended by BSF personnel at the international border near Sriganganagar on Saturday morning. Official sources said the trooper had entered Indian territory near the international boundary at Raisinghnagar and was arrested by BSF personnel on the Indian side of the barbed wire fencing. Pakistan confirmed the arrest but called…