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Jaipur: Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Sanskrit University will hold a five-day workshop titled “SAN-V-LOG” from Feb 23 to train students in creating Sanskrit-language vlogs for digital platforms such as YouTube. University officials said the initiative aims to link Sanskrit with digital media, marking the first such programme in Rajasthan and the second in India. The move…

Jaipur: Police’s crime branch Wednesday arrested a fugitive accused of running an interstate marriage racket that trafficked girls and women and extorted lakhs of rupees from men in western Rajasthan.Police identified the accused as Bhanwarlal Sharma, who ran an organised network that brought economically vulnerable girls from West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand…

Jaipur: Police used water cannons and mild force to disperse Congress workers attempting to march towards the Assembly Tuesday. The protest was organised by the Sports Cell of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee against the renaming of MGNREGA, poor sporting facilities, a poor Budget, and inflation. Hundreds of workers gathered at Sahakar Bhavan in the…

Jaipur: Former cabinet minister in the Congress govt, Pratap Singh Khachariyawas, Tuesday led a “cow protection” march in Vidyadhar Nagar, days after the alleged beheading of a calf on Feb 9 in Ashokpura locality.In the protest march led by Khachariyawas, participants demanded that CM Bhajan Lal Sharma and police act against those responsible for the…

Jaipur: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) Tuesday provisionally attached movable and immovable properties valued at over Rs 7.7 crore in Bhiwadi under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, linked to the alleged multi-crore fraud involving Adarsh Credit Co-operative Society Ltd and its associates.Officials from the ED confirmed that the attachment order was issued…