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Jaisalmer: With 79-year-old former minister Hemaram Chaudhary having spent 10 days at a protest site in the open in severe cold in Dhorimana, seeking withdrawal of the state govt’s redrawing of district boundaries of Barmer and Balotra, former deputy CM Sachin Pilot, state Cong chief Govind Singh Dotasra, and Leader of Opposition Tikaram Jully, among…

Jaipur: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Tuesday registered a case naming multiple govt officials, lease holders and contractors accused of allegedly passing off illegal mining activities as legal and causing considerable revenue loss to the govt.The list of persons named by the ACB in this case includes mining engineers, surveyors, lease holders and owners of stone…

Jaipur: The National Security Guard (NSG) and Rajasthan Police Tuesday jointly inaugurated a month-long comprehensive security enhancement training programme aimed at strengthening coordination and operational preparedness against terror threats, officials said.Director general of police Rajeev Kumar Sharma and DG NSG Bhrigu Shrinivasan inaugurated the programme at the Rajasthan Police Academy (RPA), attended by senior officials…

Jaipur: A committee constituted to investigate the death of a 23-year-old pregnant woman at the SMS Hospital in Jaipur has acknowledged she died after being transfused with the wrong blood type and has assigned blame for the incident to five lower-level medical staff. This effectively exonerates the senior staff under whose supervision they worked.Despite at…

Bhilwara: People from 12 villages around Aawa town in Tonk district will continue to observe a hundred-year-old princely-era tradition on Makar Sankranti Wednesday, gathering at Garh Chowk in Aawa to play football with an 80-kg “dada”, a volleyball-shaped object wrapped in jute ropes and soaked in water.The game, played on Makar Sankranti, is believed to…