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Jaipur: The O N Dixit Memorial ITF World Tennis Masters MT-400 tournament got underway at the Jai Club here on Saturday. On the opening day of the five-day tourney saw matches being played across various age groups. The seeded players sailed smoothly in their respective opening rounds.In the men’s 75 category, Ashok Jindal upset Suresh…

Jaipur: Union health ministry has flagged “serious lapses” in Rajasthan’s blood bank management after inspections found shortcomings including inadequate record-keeping, lack of proper ELISA testing, and failures to communicate HIV-positive cases to the State AIDS Control Society.In a Jan 15 letter, Union health secretary Punya Salila Srivastava wrote to Rajasthan principal secretary (health) Gayatri Rathore,…

Jaipur: To excel in Class 12 English exam, teachers advise students to stop acting like a bookworm and start thinking like a communicator.Gauri Pradhan, English teacher at Gyan Vihar School, said students should treat the answer sheet less like a test and more like a conversation.“Unseen passages are often the first stumbling block for students….

Jaipur: As protests against large solar power projects continue to simmer in parts of Rajasthan, the state govt and the private sector are coming together to plant 10 lakh Khejri trees which are sacred to the local communities in the solar hubs like Jaisalmer, Bikaner and Barmer.National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI) and Rajasthan…

Jaipur/Bhilwara: Police Friday uncovered a tech-savvy narcotics operation in Chittorgarh district and seized a drone along with cash, vehicles and sophisticated equipment from a smack and mephedrone (MD) manufacturing unit.The drone was allegedly used to track police movement and map escape routes during raids, Chittorgarh SP Manish Tripathi said. The action followed the arrest of…