Jaipur | Curfew was clamped and internet services suspended in Chhabra town of Rajasthan’s Baran district on Sunday as communal clashes broke out, leaving several shops and vehicles set on fire, while other shops were looted, police said. Senior officials, including the Inspector General of Police, the District Collector, and the Superintendent of Police, were holding […]
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12 SIMI members get life sentence in Rajasthan
Jaipur | The Jaipur district court on Tuesday declared 12 SIMI members as terrorists and sentenced them to life imprisonment while acquitting the 13th accused person. All of them were engineering students and were accused of working for the terrorist organisation, Indian Mujahideen. They were arrested by the ATS in 2014. While six of them are […]
Rajasthan: Woman baffles doctors testing Covid positive 31 times
Jaipur: A 35-year-old woman in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur has been posing an unique challenge to all medical theories on Covid-19, after testing positive 31 times in last five months. Her results have been contradicting the novel Coronavirus’ incubation cycle that is believe to end in 14 days, officials said. All her tests, including 17 RT-PCR and 14 […]
93-year-old doctor among first to get vaccine jab in Rajasthan
Jaipur (2 Min Read): A 93-year-old medical practitioner along with the principal of SMS hospital here were among the first beneficiaries to be inoculated with Covid-19 vaccine in Rajasthan on Saturday. The nonagenarian P.C. Dandiya and the principal Sudhir Bhandari got the first shots of the vaccine on the opening day of the inoculation exercise. Addressing […]
Women’s pics, seductive talks lured Rajasthan man into ISI spying trap
Jaipur: A resident of Rajasthan arrested on espionage charge was lured by Pakistan’s ISI operatives into spying and passing on sensitive information to them by sending him pictures of naked women and through seductive talks on the social media, officials said on Wednesday. Satyanarayan Paliwal, 42, a resident of Lathi in Jaisalmer district, told his interrogators […]
Body of Army officer, who went missing in Jodhpur reservoir, found
Jaipur: The body of Captain Ankit Gupta of the Army Para Commandos (Special Forces), who went missing in the waters of a reservoir in Jodhpur during an exercise, was finally traced on Tuesday on the sixth day of a massive search by around 200 personnel from all three services. Gupta had jumped from a helicopter into […]
Rajasthan police arrest spy working for Pakistan
Jaipur: Rajasthan police have arrested one a man on charges of working as an agent of Pakistani intelligence, officials said here on Monday. Satyanarayan Paliwal, resident of Jaisalmer village Lathi, has been arrested by the Special Branch of CID in Rajasthan on espionage charges, confirmed Additional Director General of Intelligence Umesh Mishra. Paliwal was involved in […]
5-yr-old girl identifies flags, capitals & names of 150 nations in 4.17 mins
Jaipur: Lockdowns across the world have brought many inspiring stories and one among them is the story of five-year-old Presha Khemani, who set a world record by naming 150 countries along with their capitals after identifying the flags in just four minutes and 17 seconds. The child prodigy was recently awarded the youngest kids award in […]
Bird Flu in Rajasthan: 140 more crows found dead
Jaipur: After Rajasthan confirmed a bird flu outbreak in the desert state, 140 more crows have died in six districts of state, official said. Of these, 35 crows died in Sawai Madhopur, 53 in Bikaner, 22 in Jhalawar, 17 in Baran, nine in Pali and seven in Banswara. In the last one week, a total of […]
BJP ally Rashtriya Loktantrik Party pulls out of NDA over farm laws
Jaipur: After the Shiromani Akali Dal, another NDA ally, Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP), on Saturday made an official announcement to break its alliance with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), as its demand to withdraw the contentious farm laws remained unfulfilled. Hanuman Beniwal, RLP convenor and MP from Nagaur in Rajasthan, announced his party’s separation from the […]