Jaipur: Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) is set to roll out a technology-driven system using real-time satellite imagery and geo-tagging to protect unused govt land from encroachment across the city. JDA officials said physical verification of these lands is complete, with around 206 officers — including additional chief engineers and deputy commissioners — deployed for the…
Jaipur: Mining leaseholders in the state heaved a sigh of relief after the ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) amended the Wildlife Conservation Plan (WCP).The ministry clarified that leaseholders will no longer be required to deposit Rs 5 lakh per species found within a 10-kilometre radius of their lease or quarry area. Earlier,…
Jaipur: The halted trial of cloud seeding at Jaipur’s Jamwa-Ramgarh Dam is likely to start again as the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has given conditional approval to the private company conducting the trial to fly drones up to 10,000 feet. This was confirmed by state agriculture minister Kirori Lal Meena Tuesday.As the private…
Bhilwara: The police Tuesday arrested a man for allegedly harassing a girl student from a private college under Sadar police station in Bhilwara city and paraded him from the college to the main road before hundreds of students. Deputy superintendent of police Shyam Sundar Bishnoi said that a college student reported an unknown man harassing…
Jaipur/Kota: Convicted BJP MLAKanwarlal Meena from Anta constituency in Baran district surrendered before the additional chief judicial magistrate court in Manohar Thana in Jhalawar on Wednesday, following a Supreme Court order in a two-decade-old criminal case.After the medical examination, the BJP MLA was transferred to Aklera sub-jail in Jhalawar to serve his three-year sentence.Rajasthan assembly…
