TOI Jaipur News

• newRajasthan: TM Pratap Singh Khachariyawas vows action against corrupt officials

  

  A day after ACB busted corruption racket at the transport department, the transport minister held a review meeting. He urged that no innocent officer should be harassed by the sleuths of the ACB and advocated for stern action against those involved in corrupt practices in his department.
  - 22 hours ago 18 Feb 20, 4:35am -
• newRajasthan: Bungalow remains with Vasundhara Raje

  

  he state has government on Monday informed the Rajasthan High court that former chief minister Vasundhara Raje will continue to occupy bungalow number 13 in the Civil Lines, Jaipur, while the bungalow no-5 has been vacated by former chief minister Jagannath Pahadia. Raje and Pahadia have already returned the vehicles allotted to them along with the services of drivers.
  - 22 hours ago 18 Feb 20, 4:34am -
• newJaipur: Enforcement Department busts gold racket, seizes cash & gold worth Rs 15 crore

  

  The Enforcement Department’s zonal office (Jaipur) on Monday seized foreign and Indian currency worth Rs 3.75 crore and over 39 kg of gold and silver in raids in multiple cities against jewellers associated with an alleged gold-smuggling hawala racket. The total seizure was worth nearly Rs 15 crore.
  - 22 hours ago 18 Feb 20, 4:33am -
• newJaipur: Traders want firecracker shops outside Walled City

  

  The Walled City market association has flagged the issue of giving licenses to firecracker shopkeepers to function in the congested lanes following the recent Indira Bazaar fire mishap.
  - 23 hours ago 18 Feb 20, 4:25am -
• newRajasthan to Centre: Give ₹200 crore for locust menace

  

  The state government has sought Rs 200-crore compensation from the Centre for the locust menace.
  - 23 hours ago 18 Feb 20, 4:16am -
• newAlwar: Man irritated over barking of dog kills his owner

  

  Frequent quarrels over barking of a dog led to the murder of its owner in Alwar on Sunday.
  - 23 hours ago 18 Feb 20, 4:11am -
• newJaipur: Mining body wants leases on first-come basis

  

  For bringing in transparency and enhancing revenues for the state, the Federation of Mining Associations of Rajasthan (FMAR) has urged the state government to follow the system of ‘first come first serve’ route for granting mining leases to khatedar or its NOC holder.
  - 23 hours ago 18 Feb 20, 4:08am -
• newHow coronavirus scare may impact Ashok Gehlot's free medicine scheme

  

  Increased dependence on imports of key bulk drugs from China, which is currently in the grip of novel coronavirus (nCoV), might severely affect chief minister Ashok Gehlot’s flagship free medicine scheme.
  - 23 hours ago 18 Feb 20, 4:06am -
• newRajasthan: Cow vigilantes allegedly attack two for transporting cattle

  

  Cow vigilantes allegedly struck again in Alwar district near Haryana border on Monday. Around 5am, the police found two injured persons in a mini truck that had rammed into a house in Govindgarh area of the district. On searching, the police found two calves and three cows in the mini truck. The two injured were immediately rushed to Alwar’s district hospital. The two calves died in the accident and their post-mortem has been conducted.
  - 23 hours ago 18 Feb 20, 4:05am -
• newJaisalmer: 13 Buddhist monks stopped from going to Pakistan

  

  Thirteen Buddhist monks, who are on world march for peace and wanted to enter Pakistan via Munabao, have been detained by the Army for entering the prohibited area near the border on Sunday night.
  - 23 hours ago 18 Feb 20, 4:01am -
• Jaipur to witness dip in number of flights from March 29

  

  Air connectivity from Jaipur to other cities is likely to see a dip in the upcoming summer schedule of the flight operations.
  - 2 days ago 17 Feb 20, 7:20am -
• Rajasthan promotes hassle-free licences for pharmaceutical sector

  

  To encourage the ease of doing business in the pharmaceutical industry in the state, the health department has fixed timelines for various documentation and licences to be granted by the state drugs control office.
  - 2 days ago 17 Feb 20, 6:46am -
• Newborn girl dumped outside Churu hospital in polythene bag

  

  Days after a baby girl was found abandoned in the washroom of a government hospital in Sikar on February 11, a newborn wrapped in a polythene packet was found dumped outside the Churu district hospital on Sunday.
  - 2 days ago 17 Feb 20, 4:59am -
• Jaipur: Man injured in Sikar cylinder blast dies

  

  A 65-year-old person, who had suffered burn injuries in a gas cylinder blast in Sheikhpura Mohalla of Sikar on Thursday, died on Monday.
  - 2 days ago 17 Feb 20, 4:26am -
• Rajasthan: Congress protests Centre’s ‘anti-reservation stance’

  

  Several Congress workers gathered at the Collectorate Circle to protest the ‘anti-reservation stance’ of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre on Sunday. After the protest, Congress party also gave a memorandum to the governor Kalraj Mishra. The memorandum is addressed to the President of India.
  - 2 days ago 17 Feb 20, 4:05am -

• Jaipur: Driver who killed cop in mishap unidentified

  

  Police are yet to identify the driver of a garbage dumper that allegedly hit a motorbike-borne constable near Pital Factory on Sunday. The accident police station (north) is waiting for Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) office to open on Monday so that the accused can be identified.
  - 2 days ago 17 Feb 20, 4:04am -
• Rajasthan: ‘CM Ashok Gehlot is leader of tukde-tukde gang’

  

  State BJP president Satish Poonia described chief minister Ashok Gehlot as the leader of the ‘tukde-tukde’ gang in the wake of his participation at a sit-in here against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. ​
  - 2 days ago 17 Feb 20, 4:02am -
• Five held with narcotics in separate raids in Rajasthan

  

  The Special Operations Group (SOG) arrested two persons accused of smuggling narcotics across the state and recovered 1.5kg cannabis from them.
  - 3 days ago 16 Feb 20, 4:03am -
• After CM Ashok Gehlot rap, Kota collector gives pension order to widow

  

  A day after chief minister Ashok Gehlot made Kota collector Om Prakash Kasera read out the complaint of 60-year-old widow Yasmeen during a video conference, the collector on Saturday handed over the sanction order to her for pension under the government’s widow pension scheme at her residence in Anantpura. He also apologised to her for making her wait six months.
  - 3 days ago 16 Feb 20, 4:02am -
• 9 new privately run trains from Rajasthan to aid connectivity

  

  The Union budget announcement of allowing private players to operate 150 trains on 100 identified routes will also benefit rail passengers of six cities in Rajasthan in getting connected to other cities. These trains, from super luxury to normal category, would operate soon after the tender process would be over by the railway board.
  - 3 days ago 16 Feb 20, 4:00am -