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Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court received its third consecutive hoax bomb threat in three days Wednesday, with police scurrying to respond to phony alerts that targeted two other locations in Ajmer — the district collectorate and the Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti. Agencies were forced to deploy bomb squads and sniffer dogs as part of…

Jaipur: Rajasthan is emerging as the backbone of India’s renewable energy network, with Union power minister Manohar Lal Khattar saying the country’s future “energy super highway” will pass through the state.Speaking at a special session on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) during the Pravasi Rajasthani Divas, the minister announced that the Green Energy Corridor–III has…

Jaipur: The Raghu Sinha ITF Masters 400 Tennis 2025 tournament, organised by the Raghu Sinha Tennis Club, got underway at the Jaipur Club courts here on Wednesday.The five-day tournament is being held under the auspices of the International Tennis Federation (ITF).Rajasthan Tennis Association secretary Prof Rajeev Sharma inaugurated the tourney five-day tourney. Chairman of Raghu…

Jaipur: Hindustan Zinc is poised to launch a fertiliser manufacturing facility in Chittorgarh, with an investment of approximately Rs 5,000 crore, making it the first phosphate fertiliser plant in both Rajasthan and North India, Vedanta group chairman Anil Agarwal told TOI Wednesday on the sidelines of the Pravasi Rajasthani Divas event.Highlighting the benefits for local…

Jaipur: Jaipur-based senior interventional cardiologist Dr Ravindra Singh Rao performed transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) to replace the aortic heart valve of 91-year-old veteran actor Prem Chopra at Lilawati Hospital in Mumbai.Dr Rao told TOI Wednesday that Chopra was suffering from age-related narrowing of the heart valve, which was causing shortness of breath and increasing…