Visit in Jaipur

Jaisalmer: In a significant crackdown on corruption, Settlement Commissioner Nikaya Gohaen dismissed four govt officials from the settlement department of Ram Nagar, Jaisalmer district, following an investigation into fraudulent plot allocations. The officials, RI Vikram Singh, Patwari Kishor Ram, senior assistant Yogendra Kumar, and junior assistant Shivraj Singh, were removed from service on Saturday.The investigation…

Jaipur: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Friday filed a chargesheet against the alleged fugitive mastermind of a major cross-border arms and narcotics trafficking operation supported by Pakistani handlers and involving the use of drones to drop contraband across the international border.The chargesheet, submitted to a special NIA court in Jaipur against Vishal Pachar, pertains to…

Jaisalmer: Mukesh Kumari (37), an anganwadi supervisor from Khandela area of Jhunjhunu district, was killed by her lover, Manaram (38), a teacher at a govt school in Barmer, at his house in Jasai village in Barmer Rural Monday morning.According to police sources, Kumari had driven some 600km from Jhunjhunu to Barmer on Sept 10 to…

Jaipur: A division bench of the Rajasthan High Court Tuesday quashed the 2024 auctioning of 93 gravel mining leases across Rajasthan and directed the state govt to submit a detailed report explaining how gravel at these mining blocks will be naturally replenished after extraction.A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Justice…

Jaipur: Illegal mining is declining, according to the state govt’s records. But experts cautioned that the drop in cases may not reflect the true extent of the problem on the ground.According to mines department’s data, the number of cases registered for illegal mining dropped from 10,169 in 2019–20 to 4,559 in 2024–25, with 677 cases…