Kota: The tigress identified for translocation from Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh to Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve (RVTR) in Rajasthan has been eluding forest department teams that are out to tranquilise it. On Sunday noon, after it was briefly sighted in the morning, it kept the forest teams waiting with their tranquilier darts in…
Jaipur: Cloudy weather conditions prevailed across Rajasthan on Sunday due to influence of active western disturbances, even as temperatures continued to drop sharply in many regions. Lunkaransar in Bikaner district recorded the lowest minimum temperature at 5.9°C.According to Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the first week of Dec is likely to witness severe winter conditions across…
Jaipur: In the quiet lanes of Berwai village in Roopangarh tehsil, a silent revolution unfolds every evening. Around 110 women—mostly young, married women from the Kalbelia community who never had a chance to attend school—now gather after dusk to learn the alphabet, and about health, and empowerment.An auxiliary nursing midwife (ANM) takes the classes at…
Jaipur: Jaipur (Rural) police Sunday arrested two men for allegedly setting on fire a 40-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman in Bandolav village in Dudu tehsil on Monday. DSP (Dudu) Deepak Khandelwal said Birdi Chand Gurjar, 57, and Ganesh Gurjar, 41, were arrested for setting on fire Kailash Gurjar and Soni Gurjar. Police said the…
Jaipur: Congress Sunday sharply criticised the school education department’s directive asking all govt and private schools to observe Dec 6, the date of Babri Masjid’s demolition, as Shaurya Diwas, calling it proof of the Bhajan Lal Sharma govt’s “misdirected priorities.” Rajasthan Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra said the order, which was issued late Saturday and…
