JAIPUR: Tigers from Ranthambore National Park are increasingly straying into human settlements, forcing authorities to intervene with tranquilisation efforts.On Sunday morning, a team tranquilised a tigress named Arrowhead near the Sherpur helipad. The operation took about one to one-and-a-half hours of intense effort. After sedation, the tigress was released back into her territory near Shivraj…

Jaipur: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has completed construction of the Jaipur-Bandikui Expressway Link and will open it for traffic soon. With this link road, commuters can travel between Delhi and Jaipur within 3 to 3.5 hours.Speaking to TOI, BS Yadav, project director of NHAI (Dausa PIU), stated that the road is already constructed…

Jaipur: Farmers Saturday urged agriculture department and its minister Kirori Lal Meena to address large-scale sale of fake and substandard seeds in the market. The move comes after Meena made surprise inspections at several factories producing spurious fertilisers in the last two days. Farmers said that there is no mechanism to act against traders selling…

Jaipur: A dispute over parking facilities at the government-run JK Lon Children’s Hospital led to a three-hour work stoppage on Saturday, temporarily disrupting medical services before being resolved through administrative intervention.The strike led to a complete work stoppage across outpatient departments, laboratories and several wards, although essential emergency services continued to function.The conflict arose from…

Jhunjhunu: Dr Deepak Agrawal, joint director of animal husbandry department in Sikar, was Saturday caught red-handed by an ACB team from Jaipur taking a bribe of Rs 25,000. Additional SP of ACB Special Unit II Jaipur, Mahavir Sharma, stated that an employee of animal husbandry department had filed a complaint against Dr Agrawal for demanding…