Jaipur

The continuous rising temperature and heat wave conditions have increased power consumption in Ajmer discom. Around 13% consumption has increased in the month of April, which is almost 40 lakh unit more in comparison to last year. As such, Ajmer discom has started taking measures to meet electricity demand.The rising mercury that is roughly touching 40 to 45 degree Celsius on average has compelled consumers to use fan, cooler, refrigerator and air-conditioner abundantly. Furthermore, hi…

Chief minister Ashok Gehlot said on Monday that the state government was committed to act stringently against the adulterators. ?Nobody is allowed to play with the health of people,? he said while launching mobile laboratory scheme in the city. Addressing the gathering at Indira Gandhi Panchayati Raj Sansthan, Gehlot said that if required the state government will amend existing laws as well. ?No section of the society likes adulteration of food products as everybody is affected b…

Anti-corruption bureau (ACB) on Friday caught an engineer of Jaipur Discom red handed in Kota while he was accepting bribe of Rs5,000 from a local farmer.According to the police source, the accused Pramod Kumar demanded money from Ram Bharose Nagar of Jaloda village in lieu of lessening his fine. Nagar was running a flour mill with a defective electricity meter.The police official even said that the accused threatened Nagar to fine a hefty sum of Rs15,000 but later on negotiated to s…

Supporting the bail granted to him by the lower court, the co-accused in infamous land for bribe case, during the hearing of his bail cancellation application before the high court on Thursday, said that the whole case revolves around the suspended deputy superintendent of police Raghuveer Singh Charan and his accomplices Mahesh Kumar and Indra Kumar.The co-accused, who in this case is circle inspector Bhanwar Lal, filed his reply before the single bench of Rajasthan high court chaired …

The date 13 again proved to be a blackday for the Jaipur Municipal Corporation. The BJP and Congress councillors hurled comments and abuses at each other in the second general body meeting on Tuesday and mayor Jyoti Khandelwal remained helpless and continued reading her budget speech. On January 13, the JMC witnessed a similar furore and the mayor was forced to flee from her office chamber.On Tuesday, both the Congress and BJP councillors had pre-planned how to ‘behave’ in the JM…