Jaipur: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Friday arrested an executive engineer of public works department (PWD) for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 3 lakh from a contractor at his private residence in Gangapur City.The engineer, identified as Bhawani Singh Meena, is posted at Hindaun City, Karauli district.According to the ACB, the contractor who filed the…
Jaipur: The Supreme Court Friday pulled up the Rajasthan govt, especially the Kota police, for its failure to register an FIR in the recent suicide of a NEET aspirant in the country’s coaching hub. In the last hearing on May 13, the state govt admitted that only an inquest report was registered in the matter.The…
Jaipur: Chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma approved allocation of 1,102.72 hectares of land to the forest department under the forest land diversion process, aiming to fast-track the Ramjal Setu Link Project (RSLP), also known as the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP).The approval covers four separate proposals involving the diversion of forest land impacted by key…
Jaipur: It took nearly 35 hours for police in Bikaner’s Mukta Nagar area to register an FIR after three labourers died while cleaning a septic tank at a woollen mill. The delay has raised questions even as the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission stepped in, taking suo motu cognisance of the incident.The three workers died…
Jaipur: President of Gurjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti, Vijay Bainsla, announced Friday that a Gurjar Mahapanchayat will be held on June 8 in Pilupura, Bharatpur. This location is significant as it was where the Gurjar agitation was initiated by his father and prominent Gurjar leader, Late Kirori Singh Bainsla, in 2008.The announcement was made during a…
