Jaipur: City police Monday arrested five men for allegedly siphoning export incentive scrips by illegally accessing govt portals in a racket officials estimate could have caused losses to the exchequer of nearly Rs 400 crore.Jaipur police commissioner Sachin Mittal identified the accused as Sultan Khan, Nand Kishor, Nirmal Soni, Ashok Kumar Bhandari and Pramod Khatri,…
Jaipur: State govt’s first department of genetic diseases at JK Lon Hospital, which was inaugurated on April 7 by Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, is yet to start its IPD facilities. The department, which aimed to revolutionise the diagnosis, research, and treatment of genetic and metabolic disorders, often underdiagnosed and complex to manage, is facing…
Jaipur: A day after the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested a middleman red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 3.5 lakh in Udaipur, agency sources Wednesday said additional SP Hitesh Mehta, who heads the Special Investigation Unit for Crimes Against Women (SIUCAW), may soon be called in for questioning.On Tuesday, the ACB nabbed Shanti Lal Soni…
Rajasthan celebrates its first-ever “Godawan Day” on May 21, honoring the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard. JAISALMER: The first-ever “Godawan Day” dedicated to the critically endangered Schedule-I wildlife species, the Great Indian Bustard (Godawan), will be celebrated in Jaisalmer on today May 21 in the presence of Rajasthan’s Minister of State for Forest and Environment,…
Jaipur: Rajasthan’s security apparatus didn’t trigger a single alert as three suspects travelled more than 700km from Hanumangarh district to Gujarat with a cache of weapons – Glock pistols, a Beretta and 30 live cartridges – before the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested them last Sunday to peel the first layer off a still unravelling countrywide…
