Jaipur: As part of its ongoing crackdown on illegal arms trafficking, the Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) and Pratapgarh police Tuesday arrested a key arms supplier, Praveen Verma alias ‘Uncle’, on a production warrant from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.Verma, a native of Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh, is allegedly responsible for supplying a cache of prohibited weapons…
Jaipur: Unavailability of hospital beds at Jaipur-based State Cancer Institute (SCI) has resulted in an endless wait for patients needing urgent medical attention. The crisis had led SCI to request RUHS Hospital to accommodate and treat cancer patients at its facilities as an interim measure. Currently equipped with 170 beds, SCI plans to expand capacity…
Jaipur: Close to a week after opening the Jaipur–Bandikui linkway to the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway for traffic, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) started charging tolls for the linkway Wednesday.According to NHAI officials, vehicles now have to pay only around Rs 70 more than it used to cost to travel between Delhi and Jaipur via…
Jaipur: Demanding that student union elections be started again in the state, students of Rajasthan University staged a unique protest Wednesday with cut-outs of senior politicians from different political parties who entered politics due to student body polls. After 2022, student union elections have not been held in the state.Students demonstrated with cut-outs of politicians…
Jaipur: Rajasthan’s most significant archaeological excavation in terms of depth — palaeolithic stone tools, furnaces, terracotta figurines, mud bricks, and relics from the Copper and Iron Ages — is at risk of irreversible damage from monsoon rains, with no formal protection in place. The site, in Deeg district’s Bahaj village has trenches running 23 metres…
