Jaipur: In what state govt employees termed as a victory of their struggle, the finance department issued an order Wednesday that state govt boards, corporations, undertakings, autonomous bodies, and universities where GPF Linked Pension Scheme or Old Pension Scheme (OPS) was in place by Oct 31, 2023, will continue to follow this scheme. All other…

Jaipur: Rajasthan High Court Wednesday directed the director general of police and the treasury officer to withhold salary and allowances of the investigating officer of a criminal case registered at Chandwaji police station for failure to appear for testimony in the trial court. The court said the salary should not be released until he appears…

Jaisalmer: A Punjab Police Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) team Wednesday mistakenly stopped a Haryana-registered tourist vehicle during a search operation in Jaisalmer, briefly causing panic after officers pointed weapons at the car’s occupants.Eyewitnesses said the six-member ANTF team, in plain clothes, had traced the location of a fugitive in an NDPS case to Jaisalmer and…

Jaipur: Barely a week after a leopard triggered panic in Jaipur’s VIP enclave when it entered a minister’s Civil Lines bungalow, Jaipur witnessed another intrusion Wednesday in Sector 10 of Vidyadhar Nagar. This time, the big cat entered a residential locality in the early hours of Wednesday and killed a tethered calf.CCTV footage captured the…

Jaisalmer: A 25-year-old Pakistani citizen was apprehended by the Border Security Force (BSF) for illegally crossing the international border near Barmer late Wednesday night.The individual, identified as Hindal, son of Barsa from Nayatala tehsil, Chhachhro district in Mithi, Pakistan, was found sleeping in a cattle enclosure by the BSF personnel after reportedly penetrating nearly 200…