Jaipur: Moderate to heavy showers lashed several parts of Rajasthan Wednesday, with Viratnagar in Jaipur district recording the state’s highest rainfall at 120 mm. A 72-year-old woman was electrocuted in Kurdaya village near Medta in Nagaur after coming in contact with a high-tension wire that had fallen in a waterlogged area, police said.According to officials,…

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…

Jaisalmer/Kolhapur: A Class 8 NCERT social science textbook featuring a map that shows fort city Jaisalmer as part of the Maratha Empire has led the scions of Rajasthan’s erstwhile royal families to contest the depiction as “wrongful” and “malicious”, pitting them against historians from Maharashtra who cite “documentary evidence” to back what they claim is…

Rahul Gandhi faces backlash for ‘lame horse’ remark; disability rights group files protest (Photo: PTI) JAIPUR: Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi‘s remarks on underperforming Congress workers made at a party meeting in Bhopal on Tuesday seems to have boomeranged. While his party workers may have taken the remark in their stride, an advocacy group for…

JAIPUR: Hundreds of residents in the Sushilpura area have fallen ill over the past week, allegedly due to sewage contamination of the drinking water supply, triggering a health scare.Many residents have reported similar symptoms, including vomiting, diarrhoea, stomach pain, nausea, and fever, with children and the elderly among the worst affected. Locals claim the crisis…