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Jaipur: Sixteen days after the Supreme Court dismissed BJP MLA Kanwarlal Meena’s appeal and two days after his surrender, assembly Speaker Vasudev Devnani finally disqualified the governing party’s legislator on Friday.The move came hours after Congress filed a contempt petition against Devnani in Rajasthan high court for allegedly delaying action against Meena, sentenced to three…

Jaipur: National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered Rajasthan’s top forest officers to personally intervene, initiate disciplinary action against officers responsible, and carry out fresh plantation over 400 hectares in forest areas near Kota city, as compensatory tree plantations there had “entirely failed”, while expenditure on plantation maintenance involved “misappropriation and financial misconduct”.Terming the matter a…

Jaipur: Special Operations Group (SOG) of Rajasthan Police Thursday arrested three govt officials in connection with the 2021 Sub-Inspector recruitment examination paper leak case, further unravelling a complex web of corruption in the recruitment process.The arrests include two assistant accounts officers (AAOs)—Purushottam Dadhich (35) and Sandeep Kumar Lata (43)— and a Grade III teacher, Kundan…

Jaipur: Rajasthan govt renamed the Indira Priyadarshini Award, named after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, as the Padmakshi Award, given to meritorious girls studying in Classes VIII, X and XII. The govt has also reduced the prize money allocate for the scheme.The cash award under the Padmakshi Award has been fixed at Rs 25,000 for…

Bundi: Amid slogans of ‘Vote-Chor, Gaddi Chhod’ and ‘Smart Metre Chor’ at a farmers’ rally in Bundi Thursday, state Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra and Leader of Opposition Tikaram Jully lambasted the BJP-led Union and state govts, labelling them not as “double-engine” but “double-dealing”, and not a “sarkar” (govt) but a “circus”.Both leaders also condemned…