Jaipur: An Additional Sessions Court Thursday set aside the conviction of nine individuals, including sitting MLAs, including Mukesh Bhakar from Ladnun and Manish Yadav from Shahpura, in a 12-year-old case linked to a student protest at Rajasthan University. The court overturned a lower court order dated June 17, 2025, which sentenced them to one year…
Jaipur: Nearly 150 bigha of deemed forest land in Padasoli village in Bassi tehsil of Jaipur district has allegedly been sold through land registries in violation of Supreme Court directives and the Forest Conservation Act (FCA), 1980.The land is recorded under “Beed” and “Banjar Beed” categories, treated as forest under the FCA, which restricts such…
Ajmer: A woman in Ajmer was duped of Rs 1.19 lakh in a cyber fraud after being lured with a fake investment scheme Wednesday. The victim was identified as Jenika Jonwal, a resident of Anandpuri in Dholabhata area of Ajmer district.According to police, the woman received a call from a fraudster posing as a bank…
Jaipur: State govt Wednesday accepted the voluntary retirement of SMS Hospital neurosurgery professor Dr Achal Sharma, who applied for VRS in July 2025. He was retiring in 2029. Sharma was whistleblower in the 2024 fake NoC organ transplant scam. The govt later removed him as hospital superintendent for not informing the medical education department before…
Jaipur: National Green Tribunal‘s (NGT) central zone bench in Bhopal has constituted a joint committee to investigate the explosion at an oxygen refilling plant in Jaipur’s Vishwakarma Industrial Area that killed three people in Feb, including the factory manager. The blast happened during refilling operations at the Wilson Cryo Gases oxygen plant and also caused…