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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday said encroachment of lands acquired for the Rajasthan Housing Board was an “absolute rank scam” in which everyone, right from the top to bottom, was in connivance. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta said there were dozens of orders of the Rajasthan high court which said…

Jaipur: The Jaipur Central Jail has launched an initiative called ‘Jail Chaupal’ to transform prisons into spaces of reform and rehabilitation rather than punishment. The programme, led by DIG (Prisons) and Superintendent Suman Maliwal under the guidance of DG (Prisons) Govind Gupta, encourages daily open dialogue between inmates and the jail administration.Under Jail Chaupal, Maliwal…

Jaipur: The state transport department has given a deadline of Oct 31 to private bus operators to check all safety features in buses, such as installation of fire extinguishers and functional emergency exits. After a meeting with senior officials from the state transport department Friday, private bus operators called off their strike that they were…

Jaisalmer: In a major theft incident, Barmer’s largest agricultural market was targeted late Thursday night, with thieves breaking into 20 shops and decamping with cash and valuables worth lakhs. The break-in has sparked outrage among traders, who have accused the administration of gross negligence and threatened to go on strike.According to police, the thieves used…

Jaipur: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Friday recovered 560 grams of gold worth Rs 72 lakh during a bank locker search of executive engineer Ramavtar Meena, who was posted as an associate professor at the Indira Gandhi Panchayati Raj and Rural Development Institute in the city.ADG ACB Smita Srivastava said the search was conducted by the…