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Jaipur: Shivay Singh of Uttar Pradesh edged past Maharashtra’s Sudip Patil to clinch the crown as the three-day Royal Jaipur Under-1800 Classical Fide Rating Chess tournament concluded here on Sunday.An eight-year-old Prayagraj boy Shivay and Sudip both ended up with eight points each to their credit but on the basis of better tie-break scores, the…

Jaipur: The Jaipur District Open Badminton Championship will be held at the Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium here from June 9 to 16. The week-long annual tournament will be organised by the Jaipur District Badminton Association (JDBA) and sponsored by RD Baheti Charitable Trust.Addressing a press conference at the Jai Club here on Sunday, JDBA president…

JAIPUR: Tigers from Ranthambore National Park are increasingly straying into human settlements, forcing authorities to intervene with tranquilisation efforts.On Sunday morning, a team tranquilised a tigress named Arrowhead near the Sherpur helipad. The operation took about one to one-and-a-half hours of intense effort. After sedation, the tigress was released back into her territory near Shivraj…

Jaipur: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has completed construction of the Jaipur-Bandikui Expressway Link and will open it for traffic soon. With this link road, commuters can travel between Delhi and Jaipur within 3 to 3.5 hours.Speaking to TOI, BS Yadav, project director of NHAI (Dausa PIU), stated that the road is already constructed…

Jaipur: Farmers Saturday urged agriculture department and its minister Kirori Lal Meena to address large-scale sale of fake and substandard seeds in the market. The move comes after Meena made surprise inspections at several factories producing spurious fertilisers in the last two days. Farmers said that there is no mechanism to act against traders selling…