Jaipur: Road cave-ins and ubiquitous potholes have emerged as major civic issues during the monsoon season in Jaipur, prompting social media users to highlight them through funny memes and reels.A reel that has gone viral suggests that giving road directions in the city now involves referencing locations where two-wheelers, auto-rickshaws, or trucks are stuck in…
Jaipur: Pavement dwellers shifting between prime city stretches on JLN Marg and Shanti Path are posing a serious traffic safety threat, with the authorities struggling to remove them permanently.For months, these families have been playing a “cat and mouse” game with the district administration. Initially, they occupied the slip lane near Rajasthan University on JLN…
Ajmer: A businessman and his wife were allegedly digitally arrested for four days in Ajmer and duped of Rs 40 lakh by a cybercriminal posing as policeman from Colaba police station in Mumbai. He charged the couple with serious offences of money laundering, drug trafficking and managed to defraud them.The couple, identified as Elvis Michal…
Jaipur: In a shocking lapse of city policing, an unidentified man brazenly stormed into a house in upscale Sethi Colony Wednesday afternoon and violently snatched a gold chain from a 70-year-old woman in broad daylight.The victim, Shakuntala Devi, was drying clothes on her porch around 2pm when the intruder barged in, grabbed the chain around…
Jaipur: After a group of ministers in the 55th meeting of the GST Council proposed to increase GST from 12% to 18% on readymade garments costing more than Rs 1,000, the state industry appealed to the state finance minister, Diya Kumari, to raise the issue and oppose the move.The Garment Exporters Association of Rajasthan (GEAR)…
