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Jaipur: A fire broke out Thursday morning at Bikaneri Rasgulla Namkeen Bhandar, a shop selling snacks and sweets, on Ajmer Road in Sodala police station area. The blaze, which began suddenly and spread rapidly, was so intense that it engulfed a nearby marriage garden, destroying goods and structures at both locations. Preliminary investigations suggest that…

Jaipur: The three-day strike by sanitation workers in Jaipur ended Thursday after the Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) administration agreed to most of their demands. A key demand regarding continuing the duties of acting health inspectors and jamadars, as earlier assigned when the twin corporations had 250 wards, did not receive any assurance from JMC. After…

Jaipur: The state govt has reassigned over 180 specialist doctors from patient care to verify educational certificates and documents of 8,200 newly selected nurses and paramedical staff.On Thursday, 135 senior specialists from SMS Medical College — including anaesthetists, surgeons, gynaecologists, orthopaedicians, paediatricians, psychiatrists, radiotherapists and super-specialists in transfusion medicine, tropical medicine and palliative care —…

Jaipur: Employee unions in the state have voiced strong objections to a recent directive from the state govt requiring all fully aided and non-fully aided institutions to fund pension payments from their own resources. They argue that autonomous bodies lacking financial provisions should be supported by the govt for the implementation of the Old Pension…

Jodhpur: Swinging into action with a view to nip in the bud a trend that has morphed jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi into a pop-culture symbol, police have launched a crackdown on sellers cashing in on the gangster’s image.In the past two days, teams have raided two shops, seizing stacks of these jackets and arrested five…