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Jaipur/Jaisalmer: Chief secretary Sudhansh Pant held a high-level meeting at the secretariat on Friday to review preparations for the second statewide civil defence blackout and mock drill under ‘Operation Shield’, scheduled for Saturday. The meeting was attended by senior officials and civil defence controllers, who were advised to decide on the timing of the blackout…

Jaipur: A fresh wave of hoax bomb threats rattled the city Friday morning, prompting police to launch a large-scale security operation at two court complexes and the city’s metro station in Mansarovar.The email, received at 4.49am Thursday, May 18, was addressed to court officials but remained unopened until Friday morning. When staff at the family…

Doctors at SMS Hospital in Jaipur successfully removed a 210-centimetre-long trichobezoar from a 14-year-old girl’s stomach, potentially setting a new world record. JAIPUR: The SMS Hospital doctors surgically removed a 210-centimetre-long trichobezoar (a collection of hair) from the stomach of a 14-year-old girl, a resident of Barara village in Agra district of Uttar Pradesh, on…

Jaipur: City police Thursday arrested three persons, including an upper division clerk (UDC) posted at a govt school, in connection with the case in which four Jaipur Central Jail inmates were last week found at hotels instead of SMS Hospital after being granted medical referrals.SHO (Lal Kothi) Banna Lal said identified the arrested persons as…

Jaipur: Courses offered by University of Rajasthan‘s department of European languages, literature, and cultural studies have been in high demand since the Covid pandemic, with applications at least four times the available seats being received every year.The university offers only 20 seats for MA in French but receives 70-80 applications every year. For undergraduate studies,…