Jaipur

Jaipur: In a long-overdue bureaucratic reshuffle in Rajasthan, the Bhajan Lal Sharma govt transferred 62 IAS officers, including 11 district collectors, on Sunday night. The most significant among the transfers were that of additional chief secretary (finance) Akhil Arora, who was in charge of the portfolio since the previous Congress govt; and ACS (home) Anand…

Jaisalmer: A gym trainer was arrested Saturday in Barmer following a complaint by a resident doctor for blackmailing and sending obscene messages to her. The man identified as Jitendra (32), would even send messages to people where her engagement was being discussed. He wold send messages to her friends and relatives, trying to prove that…

Kota: Nayak Pawan Prajapati (28), who was killed in a mishap in Assam late Thursday night was cremated with state honours at his native village Kherkheda in Jhalawar’s Asnawar subdivision Sunday noon.Jhalawar-Baran MP Dushyant Singh, Khanpur MLA Suresh Gurjar, Manohar Thana MLA Govind Ranipuria, Jhalawar SDM Abhishek Charan, other district officials, and many locals were…

Jaipur: For several residents of the Walled City, most of them tenants, the monsoon brings not just rain but anxiety. Last year, heavy showers caused the wall of a dilapidated building to collapse, after which Jaipur Municipal Corporation-Heritage (JMC-H) demolished nine unsafe structures in Kishanpole zone and issued notices to over 150 property owners. An…

Jodhpur: A special team of Jodhpur Range police arrested a notorious drug trafficker in Madhya Pradesh Saturday. Disguised as smugglers, the team lured him to a hotel on the pretext of a drug deal and arrested him while he was having tea.The trafficker, Chimaram (30), carried a reward of Rs one lakh and had been…