Jaipur: After inspections of over 20 govt schools in Udaipur district by the Cockroach Janta Party’s flagged serious gaps, including maggots in a school kitchen, discoloured and foul-smelling drinking water, poor cleanliness, unsafe food grain storage, inadequate seating, and lapses in basic school management, the district education department has issued instructions to all Primary Elementary…

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Jaipur: Rajasthan has recorded 108 deaths of pregnant and postpartum women in govt hospitals over the past 50 days, raising concerns over fragile maternal healthcare, delayed referrals and gaps in timely treatment.According to the health department, many of the women were high-risk pregnancy cases and died due to postpartum haemorrhage, severe anaemia and complications aggravated…

Jaipur: The murder of 38-year-old forest ranger Pratap Singh Chundawat, allegedly by the mining mafia late Monday night, has exposed the risks faced by Rajasthan’s frontline forest staff, who take on illegal mining operators with little protection and often just motorcycles.Chundawat was allegedly run over by a dumper truck while trying to stop illegal mining…

Jaipur: The mines and geology department, one of the state govt’s major revenue-generating arms, is facing an acute shortage of senior officers, with all five posts of additional directors (ADMs) lying vacant and being managed through additional charges.The situation is set to worsen from Oct 1, when the post of director will also fall vacant.A…