Jaipur: In a powerful display of grassroots resistance, women from 18 villages in Neem Ka Thana tehsil of Sikar district have been leading a sustained, rotational protest against illegal soapstone mining that endangers the Girjan river—a crucial rain-fed lifeline supported by traditional anicuts in each village.Clad in vibrant attire and traditional ghoonghats, women like Monu…
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,…
File pic of an accident at JDA Circle in Jaipur Jaipur: The city’s ranking as the second deadliest for road accident fatalities in the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report has drawn sharp criticism from govt officials and road safety experts, who blamed official indifference and poor coordination among agencies.The NCRB report recorded 1,001 road…
Jaipur: Health department has issued guidelines for where hospital buildings should be construted, among them that they should not be constructed near cremation grounds, catchment areas of rivers, or in areas where waterlogging is a problem. The buildings should also not be too far from residential areas and there must be easy access to transport…
Jaipur: The suspension of a school principal and four teachers after the Jhalawar school building collapse that killed seven students has triggered outrage among educators, who say they are being made scapegoats for failures beyond their expertise.Teachers’ associations accused the Rajasthan govt of unjustly blaming them for structural lapses that fall under the purview of…
