Rajasthan

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…

The Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education (RBSE) will conduct videography of entire examination process from the next session in Jodhpur district, board chairman Subhash Garg announced on Monday. The RBSE exams concluded on Monday. Appreciating efforts of the board employees for conducting smooth and peaceful examinations, Garg also expressed anxiety over the high number of cases of copying and use of unfair means during the exams. He said that Jodhpur secured highest marks in the number …

It had taken a great deal of effort and political manoeuvring by Union minister for rural development and president of the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA), CP Joshi, to bring cricket matches back to Jaipur. However, Jaipurites may not get to see IPL matches next season. It is learnt that Rajasthan Royals management is so fed up with the seemingly adverse attitude of different state authorities that they may not hold any match in Jaipur next season. So much so that there were even se…