Bhilwara: Bhilwara owes its fame as ‘Vastranagari’ or ‘Textile City’ to the thousands of women who run its textile factories with both precision and pride. “We have no hesitation in operating machines because we are no less than men,” one of them, Bela Bai, said on the eve of International Women’s Day. “The same tasks…
Jaipur: For the past three and a half years, more than 3.6 lakh residents of Jaipurcity—living across 23 wards of Jaipur Municipal Corporation—depend on a group of around 20 women for their daily supply of drinking water.On Oct 10, 2022, Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) declared its Malviya Nagar division as a “Pink Circle” and…
Jaisalmer: Women serving in North Western Railways’ (NWR) Jodhpur Division work as loco pilots, track maintainers, engineers, guards, station masters, khalasis (helpers), ticket examiners, members of Railway Protection Force (RPF), nursing staff, medical officers, and mechanical workers at diesel and locomotive sheds in such remote districts as Jaisalmer and Barmer.Many of them are also sportspersons,…
Bhilwara: Police arrested six people and registered two cases after a Friday night stone-pelting clash between two communities in Deshwali Mohalla under Purani Tonk police station in Tonk city, officials said.Tonk SP Rajesh Kumar Meena said some boys of a particular community were fighting in Valmiki Basti when local residents reprimanded them. He said family…
Jaipur: Surgeons at SMS Hospital Saturday said they had cured a rare condition in an 11-year-old boy, whose liver, gallbladder, and a significant portion of intestines had moved into his chest cavity due to a diaphragm defect.This abnormality severely compressed his right lung, causing severe breathlessness and chest pain that hindered his daily activities. To…
