Visit in Jaipur

Jaipur: Tobacco use among children and adolescents in Rajasthan persists despite well-known harmful effects of smoking and smokeless tobacco, the state’s health department figures have shown.According to govt data, children not only frequently purchase tobacco products from local vendors, but issue is also exacerbated by the fact that sales often occur in close proximity to…

Jaipur: The state primary education department on Sunday suspended five govt school teachers from Balotra and Jodhpur for allegedly selling milk powder — intended for distribution in schools under Panna Dhai Bal Gopal Yojana mid-day meal programme — to sweet manufacturing factories at a rate of Rs 160-200 per kg.The department has set up a…

Jaipur: Despite chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma’s directive to complete Isarda Dam by June 2025, residents of Sawai Madhopur and Dausa will only begin receiving water by Diwali this year—while those on Jaipur’s northern fringes may have to wait until 2029. Officials from Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) and Water Resources Department (WRD) told TOI…

Jaipur: The death of a one-day-old newborn while being transported from Bharatpur to Jaipur last week has highlighted serious shortcomings in paediatric healthcare facilities at district-level medical colleges in Rajasthan. The infant, referred to JK Lon Hospital due to the absence of paediatric surgery services in Bharatpur, died in transit, underscoring the risks involved in…

Gulmarg (J&K): High above Gulmarg’s snow-dusted ridges, three young Indian alpine skiers, Sahil Thakur, Syed Zain and Faizan Ahmad Lone, are chasing their dreams on the slopes. They come from different worlds: Sahil from the rugged heights of Manali in Himachal Pradesh, while Zain and Faizan hail from Kashmir’s valleys.Yet the common thread weaving their…