PHED minister Kanhaiyalal Chaudhary in talks with contractors union Wednesday Jaipur: Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) contractors in Rajasthan Wednesday called off their proposed indefinite strike after talks with the state govt in Jaipur.The decision came after PHED minister Kanhaiyalal Chaudhary assured the union that pending payments of Rs 2,500 crore would be released by…
Two sanitation workers died cleaning a sewer in Jaipur’s Jhotwara zone Friday Jaipur: The deaths of two workers during sewer cleaning in Jhotwara on April 17 have brought the Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) under scrutiny, with an initial probe pointing to poor monitoring of outsourced agencies as a key cause of the tragedy.Officials said the…
Chomu murder, man held for wife murder Jaipur: Police Tuesday arrested a 50-year-old man for allegedly killing his estranged wife and dumping her body near a railway underpass close to Tantiyawas toll plaza in Chomu, a day after the crime came to light.The accused, identified as Satish Kumar Sharma, was held following investigation into the…
Jaipur: A court in Shrimadhopur passed an injunction order stopping the child marriage of two sisters aged 17 and 15 in Sikar district. This is the first such judicial intervention in Sikar district prohibiting child marriage.Acting on a tip-off from an NGO, a joint team of the district legal services authority and police reached the…
Jaipur: Taking cognisance of two separate fatal incidents — the death of an eight-year-old student in Udaipur and two sanitation workers in Jaipur — the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission Tuesday issued directions to strengthen safety measures and fix accountability.In the Udaipur case, the Commission directed the state sports department to issue a circular mandating…
