Visit in Jaipur

Jaipur: In a fresh push to accelerate one of city’s key infrastructure projects, Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) has asked the state govt to give it charge of construction of the long-delayed Northern Ring Road corridor, taking it away from National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). Officials said the urban development and housing (UDH) department will…

Jaipur: As workers from 27 districts of Rajasthan gathered at Shaheed Smarak here for a “mazdoor mahapanchayat,” Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) Monday called for the newly enacted VB–G RAM-G law to be scrapped, asserting that the legal right to work under MGNREGS will not be surrendered.The mahapanchayat, held opposite the police commissioner’s office, saw…

Jaipur: The sharply contrasting political ideologies of Mahatma Gandhi, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah came under focus during a thought-provoking session titled “Polarities: Gandhi, Savarkar and Jinnah” at Jaipur Literature Festival Saturday.The discussion featured scholar Makarand R Paranjape, historian Alex von Tunzelmann, and author Kishwar Desai, who examined how the three leaders shaped—and…

Jaipur: City cybercrime police Tuesday arrested one more accused from Bengaluru in connection with a ‘digital arrest’ scam wherein a 75-year-old man from Jaipur was duped of Rs 23.56 lakh. The accused, Sunny Kumar Sharma, is believed to be the mastermind of an inter-state cybercrime gang that defrauded people across multiple cities using similar tactics.The…

Jaipur: Passengers heading to Dubai and Sharjah from Jaipur continued to face delays and disruptions in flight schedules for the third consecutive day on Wednesday. Due to airspace restrictions on account of tensions between Iran and Israel, three international flights to Dubai and Sharjah were delayed. The flights to Jaipur reached late, which caused them…