Jaipur: After orders for production curtailment, solar power developers in the state are now being denied permission to commission projects worth Rs 2,000 crore (500MW) due to policy ambiguities surrounding Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS).Industry stakeholders said the state energy department’s rules for mandatory battery storage alongside solar plants are being interpreted negatively to hold…
Jaipur: The All-Rajasthan State Employees Joint Federation (Unified) has announced a sit-in protest at Saheed Smarak in Jaipur on Sept 24. The demonstration aims to address the non-implementation of budget commitments made for state employees and to highlight ongoing unresolved demands.Gajendra Singh Rathore, the federation’s state President, emphasised the need for immediate action from the…
Jaipur: Two bike-borne youths allegedly harassed a woman on a city road here, with a video of the incident surfacing online and prompting police to launch a search for the accused.Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Rajarshi Raj Varma said the video, which went viral on social media, showed two youths on a motorcycle harassing a…
Jaipur: Scarred by a series of high-profile controversies in govt recruitment examinations in the past decade, Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) has claimed it has built one of the country’s most elaborate exam-security systems, one that has ensured that no recruitment exam held since 2023 has been compromised.RPSC’s assertion comes at a time when the…
Jaipur/Alwar: ‘Honour killing‘ claimed a 22-year-old woman and her 11-month-old son, said the Rajasthan police on Monday. The killings, on June 17, were premeditated and an act of revenge, police said. The woman’s minor brother has been detained and her sister’s husband arrested for conspiring to commit the heinous crime.The infant’s severed body was found…
