Jaipur

Jhunjhunu: Ratangarh police in Churu district arrested a truck driver Sunday after recovering 16.195 kg of opium from a truck during a major operation on the mega highway. Ratangarh SHO Gaurav Khidiya said that during patrolling near Malasar toll, police stopped and searched a truck coming from the Ratangarh side and recovered 6 packets of…

Burglary attempt foiled as man gets stuck in exhaust fan window in Kota KOTA: A burglary attempt was foiled in Pratap Nagar under the Borkheda police station limits when one of two suspected thieves got stuck while attempting to enter a house through an exhaust fan window during the intervening night of Sunday and Monday….

Jodhpur: The Rajasthan high court Monday refused to quash the FIR registered against Bollywood filmmaker Vikram Bhatt, his wife Shwetambari Bhatt, and others in an alleged film-funding embezzlement case, dealing a setback to the accused, who are currently lodged in Udaipur jail.The single bench of Justice Sameer Jain dismissed Bhatt’s petition, holding that the case…

Jhunjhunu: Police here have registered a case based on the complaint of Manvendra Singh Chauhan, son of former treasurer of Shri Shyam Temple Committee, Kalu Singh Chauhan, that he received a Rs 3 crore extortion call from a man claiming to be “Harry Boxer of Lawrence Bishnoi gang”.Chauhan told police he received a WhatsApp call…

Bhilwara: Former agriculture minister of Rajasthan, Prabhu Lal Saini, a resident of Aawan village in Tonk district, recently received patents for three date palm varieties from the Indian Agriculture Research Council (ICAR), New Delhi. Saini said it was for the first time in India that patents had been granted for date palm varieties.The former minister…