Jaipur: The panchayati raj department Friday issued notifications establishing 3,443 new gram panchayats and eight new zila parishads across the state.The eight new zila parishads are Kotputli-Behror, Salumber, Beawar, Khairtal-Tijara, Phalodi, Deeg, Deedwana-Kuchaman, and Balotra. The panchayat elections for the posts of village heads, deputy village heads and zila parishad heads will he held next…

Jaipur: City police arrested 60 people Friday after raiding two fake call centres that allegedly defrauded thousands of American citizens by having telecallers pose as genuine customer support executives of major corporations like Amazon and Apple.Police commissioner Sachin Mittal said the two call centres together raked in lakhs of dollars by using fraud or coercion…

Ajmer: A 13-year-old girl died by suicide at her home in the city Thursday evening. The teenager had returned home around 2pm after completing her half-yearly exam. Police said the daughter of Summit Parcha, a resident of the Delhi Gate area, was found hanging by her father when he returned from work and discovered her…

Jaipur: Youth Congress office bearers and members were stopped by police with barricades and water cannons at Shaheed Smarak Thursday when they were marching towards the chief minister’s residence to stage protests over issues like ‘vote theft’, deteriorating law and order, and crop damage compensation to farmers.When the marchers climbed over barricades set up by…

Jaipur: Grieving parents of 9-year-old Amaira Kumar, who died on Nov 1 after falling from the fourth floor parapet of Neerja Modi school, where she was a student of Class 4, said Thursday that the school’s affiliation to the Central Board of School Education should be cancelled forthwith for criminal negligence in handling their daughter’s…