Jaipur: Following the deadly car explosion near the Red Fort Metro Station in Delhi that claimed at least 12 lives, a Mumbai-based school cancelled its student tour of the Golden Triangle —Jaipur-Delhi-Agra— which was scheduled to begin in Jaipur.The school’s travel agent informed the Jaipur hotel of the cancellation on Tuesday, citing the blast and…
Jaipur: State govt’s decision to merge Jaipur Municipal Corporation Greater and Heritage and to restructure the municipal zones has left many residents confused. A significant number of them remain unaware of their new ward numbers and zones.“I am resident of a ward under Malviya Nagar zone of JMC-Greater. I am sure that my ward number…
Jaipur: In an unexpected late-night bureaucratic reshuffle, Rajasthan chief secretary Sudhansh Pant has been appointed Union secretary in the ministry of social justice and empowerment. He will replace 1991 batch IAS officer Amit Yadav, who is set to retire on Nov 30. Pant, also a 1991 batch civil servant of the Rajasthan cadre, will assume…
Jaipur: Nine years after they were last seen in the city, Jaipur’s Nahargarh Biological Park (NBP) is all set to welcome back Himalayan black bears. A team from the Forest department left for Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday morning to bring back a pair of Himalayan black bears under an inter-zoo animal exchange programme.Forest officials said…
Jaipur: A 38-year-old IAS officer has demanded police protection after accusing her husband, also a senior bureaucrat, of cruelty, threats, and wrongful confinement, according to an FIR lodged at SMS police station on Nov 7.The allegations were made by Bharti Dixit, joint secretary, Finance department, in a complaint filed against her husband, Ashish Modi, director…