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Jaipur: Alarmed by an escalating financial crisis in state-funded universities, vice chancellors of 17 govt institutions in Rajasthan have urged the state to immediately increase financial assistance to prevent what they described as an imminent “collapse of higher education standards”.In a virtual meeting held with chief secretary V Srinivas Saturday, the VCs shared stark accounts…

Jaipur: Former minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas Sunday led a march to the Jaipur Metal Factory on Station Road in protest against an alleged scam in the factory’s transfer to a private company. Addressing supporters, Khachariyawas said the chief minister’s office was involved in a “Rs 1,000-crore scam” linked to the factory’s handover to the private…

Jaipur: Police’s special operations group (SOG) Sunday arrested four persons who allegedly used a high-tech cheating network to clear the Rajasthan High Court’s 2022 recruitment examination for Junior Judicial Assistant, Clerk Grade-II, and Assistant Clerk Grade-II. The exam was held on March 12 and 19 in 2023.ADG (SOG) Vishal Bansal said the arrests followed an…

Jaipur: Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma Sunday rold newly appointed BJP office-bearers to launch an outreach campaign to “counter Congress propaganda”, as the party prepares to celebrate completion of two years of its govt on Dec 11.Addressing party functionaries at the state BJP headquarters, Sharma said that welfare schemes, infrastructure projects, and administrative reforms undertaken…

Jaipur/Mumbai: Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt and his wife Shwetambari Bhatt were arrested from Mumbai early Sunday in a Rs 30-crore fraud case registered in Udaipur last month.Udaipur-based IVF specialist Dr Ajay Murdia, founder of Indira IVF, had filed a complaint a month ago alleging that Bhatt, his wife and six others induced him to invest over…