Jaipur

JAIPUR: A man allegedly attacked his mother-in-law with a pair of scissors and severed her nose following a family dispute in Rajasthan’s Jalore district, police said on Sunday.The accused, identified as Sohanlal, fled the scene carrying the severed portion of the woman’s nose after the attack. The incident took place on Friday evening in Dungari…

Jaipur: A 28-year-old history-sheeter was arrested Saturday for allegedly breaking into a locked house and stealing a gallantry medal that was posthumously awarded to a martyr of the 1961 Goa Liberation War. Police said the medal was recovered and identified the accused as Abhishek alias Ankit, 28, a resident of Anupgarh in Sriganganagar. The case…

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,…