Jaipur

Jaipur: Hundreds of food establishments in the city are facing potential closure as municipal authorities have launched a stringent crackdown on businesses operating without valid trader’s licenses. The move comes following a Rajasthan High Court directive requiring all food businesses to obtain proper licensing, requiring the two municipal corporations to submit a report on this…

Jaipur: Experts and regular commuters have criticised the Traffic Control Board’s (TCB) decision to curb the movement of e-rickshaws while increasing the number of auto rickshaws on city roads. They opined that the decision to ban e-rickshaws on selected flyovers and elevated roads would lead to traffic congestion on both sides of these flyovers, where…

Jaipur: The Special Operations Group (SOG) arrested a govt employee, an Upper Division Clerk (UDC) in the Commercial Tax Dept (Circle-E) in Jodhpur, in connection with the 2020 Forest Guard recruitment exam paper leak case Thursday. The accused, Govind Tetarwal, was produced before a court in Banswara Friday, which granted an 11-day police remand for…

Jaipur: Divyang Adhikar Mahasangh, an advocacy group for the rights of specially abled persons, urged chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma to declare the newly released film ‘Sitaare Zameen Par’ tax-free in the state. In a letter to the CM, the president of the organisation, Hemant Bhai Goyal, wrote, “I humbly request that the recently released…

Jaipur: A man wanted for rape charges under the POCSO Act was arrested by the city police Thursday after being on the run for four years. The accused, Mohan Singh (27) was hiding in Gurgaon under a fake identity and working at a glass factory. To track him down, police officers posed as labourers, scouring…