Jaipur: A four-year-old girl was the latest to die of an unidentified illness in Jhalra block of Salumber district Tuesday, which has so far claimed the lives of six children between the ages of two and seven since April 1. The health department suspects an outbreak of mosquito-borne viral encephalitis to be the cause of…
Udaipur: A govt schoolteacher from Banswara district was arrested Monday for allegedly masquerading as a gangster and demanding a staggering Rs 1.40 crore in extortion money from two local jewellers. The 35-year-old had reportedly accumulated a debt of Rs 80 lakh due to an addiction to online gaming.Banswara superintendent of police Sudhir Joshi said accused…
Jaipur: Signalling a shift towards decentralised farm policymaking, Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Tuesday said the Centre will allow states to tailor agricultural strategies based on their own agro-climatic realities, instead of following a one-size-fits-all model.Speaking at the western regional agriculture conference in Jaipur, Chouhan said, “Every state has its own geographical and agricultural…
Jaipur: As part of the ease of doing business reform initiatives, the revenue and environment departments have been tasked with creating a land bank comprising degraded forest and non-forest land to facilitate industrial expansion. By pooling degraded forest and non-forest land, the govt aims to provide industry with readily available parcels for expansion, cutting through…
Jaipur: A special CBI court in Jaipur has convicted a former Chief Office Superintendent of West Central Railway (WCR) and sentenced him to five years of rigorous imprisonment in a bribery case, officials said Tuesday.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on the convict, Jalandhar Yogi, who was posted in the office of…
