Rajsthan News

JAIPUR: The inaugural edition of the Late Justice Anshuman Singh Memorial Golf Cup will be organised between September 30 and October 1 at Rambagh Golf Club (RGC) here. More than 300 golfers have sent entries for the tournament. “We are overwhelmed to receive such a great response including that from the girls, youngsters and veterans. … Read more

JAIPUR: The state government on Tuesday dismissed BJP’s Somya Gurjar from the post of JMC-Greater mayor and barred her from contesting elections for the next six years after an inquiry found her guilty in a June 2021 case. In a late night order, the department of local bodies appointed Sheel Dhabai, BJP councillor from Ward … Read more

JAIPUR: With footfalls at temples, garba grounds and marketplaces expected to rise this year after the Covid-induced slowdown in the past two years, the city police plan to deploy additional personnel at these sites ahead of the festival season beginning from Monday. Home guards and additional police personnel would be drawn from the lines for … Read more

JAIPUR: Power minister Bhanwar Singh Bhati admitted in the Assembly on Thursday that power crisis in the state is turning serious due to the widening gap between the demand and supply. Replying to a debate on power crisis, Bhati said the state has very little coal left for its thermal power plants to continue operating … Read more

NEW DELHI: Scores of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers on Tuesday staged a massive protest in Jaipur over the deaths of 50,000 cattle due to Lumpy Skin Disease and atrocities on women in Rajasthan. State BJP president Satish Poonia led the protest on the second day of the assembly session. The protest march started … Read more

JAIPUR: Of 45 issues reported during social audit of MGNREGA work in 2022-23 (till date), not a single has been closed or resolved yet and are pending at the level of the rural development and panchayati raj department, audit report on MGNREGA MIS report has revealed. Meanwhile, the rural and panchayati raj department has issued … Read more

JAIPUR: Thousands of people — including teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Relief Force (SDRF), civil defence and locals — clapped in joy the moment a two-year-old girl was bailed out from a 200-foot-deep borewell in which she had fallen on Thursday morning near Abhaneri village in Rajasthan‘s Dausa district. Unlike … Read more

JAISALMER: Cabinet minister Hemaram Choudhary on Sunday levelled allegations of illegal river sand mining worth crores of rupees on his own government. He said that the government was “looting” in Barmer in the name of river sand and that there was no one, starting from mines minister Pramod Jain Bhaya to the chief minister, to … Read more

A five-day Inter college student exchange program was organized by Poornima College of Engineering in association with Scholars Institute of Technology and Management, Guwahati, Assam. Under this, 14 students and four faculty members of students were exposed to the local language, culture, tourism, music and local sports of Rajasthan in Jaipur. Students of Assam performing … Read more

JAIPUR: The income tax department Wednesday conducted extensive search operations at various properties linked to Rajasthan minister of state for home Rajendra Singh Yadav and his family. The searches began early morning at different locations in Jaipur, including Yadav’s family-owned packaging factory in Kotputli which is also his constituency, under tight cover provided by central … Read more