Jaipur, June 9 (IANS) A massive fire broke out at a firecracker manufacturing unit in Jaipur’s Kho Nagorian area on Tuesday, claiming eight lives and leaving several others critically injured, police said. The injured were rushed to the Sawai Man Singh Hospital, where some remain in critical condition.According to eyewitnesses, the fire spread so rapidly that workers inside the factory had little or no time to react or escape.As soon as information about the incident was received, police teams, …

Ahmedabad, June 9 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has suspended the sale of nearly 4,850 kilograms of suspected cow ghee worth more than Rs 31.81 lakh after conducting coordinated inspections at three locations in the city, with laboratory tests now set to determine whether the products comply with food safety standards, officials said on Tuesday. The action was carried out on Monday by a team comprising the designated officer and two food safety officers from AMC’s South Zone…

Jaipur, June 9 (IANS) Former Rajasthan minister Mahesh Joshi suffered a setback after a special court dismissed his plea seeking release on the grounds that his arrest in a corruption case related to the Jal Jeevan Mission scam was unlawful. The Special Judge for Prevention of Corruption Act cases ruled that the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) had substantially complied with constitutional safeguards and the provisions of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) during the arrest. The court ob…

Jaipur, June 9 (IANS) Acting on the directions of its headquarters, the Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday arrested a patwari red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 4,500 in Raiwana village of Neemrana tehsil in Kotputli-Behror district. The accused, identified as Dharam Singh, Patwari of Dausaud Patwar Circle and holding additional charge of Raiwana Patwar Circle, was apprehended by the ACB’s Jaipur City-III unit during a trap operation.According to the ACB, a complaint was r…

Kolkata, June 9 (IANS) The leaders of the faction in Trinamool Congress that continues allegiance towards the former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew and the party’s General Secretary, Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday raised their voice against the raids and search operations earlier in the day conducted by the sleuths of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of state police at the party office adjacent to the former Chief Minister’s residence at Kalighat and another offic…

Jaipur, June 9 (IANS) Close on the heels of maternal deaths in Kota, a serious medical concern has surfaced at PBM Hospital in Bikaner, where five women developed severe complications, including kidney failure, after giving birth. The affected women experienced a deterioration in their health days after delivery, prompting concern among hospital authorities and the state government. Following reports of the incident, Rajasthan Health Minister Gajendra Singh Khimsar convened a high-level meeting …

Ahmedabad, June 9 (IANS) Around 150 families who lost loved ones in the Air India Flight AI-171 disaster have approached authorities seeking support for a remembrance gathering at the crash site in Ahmedabad’s Meghani Nagar on June 12, the first anniversary of the tragedy that claimed 260 lives. In a letter dated June 8, Kuldip Ishrani, representing bereaved families, requested police assistance for a memorial programme scheduled from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the site where the London-bound Boeing…

New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the Centre released an interim allocation of Rs 95,692 crore to states and Union Territories on Tuesday in addition to the Rs 30,000 crore already allocated under MGNREGA, taking the total outlay past the Rs 1.25 lakh crore mark. Chairing a meeting of Rural Development Ministers of states regarding the implementation of ‘Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin)’, Union Minister C…

Gandhinagar, June 9 (IANS) Gujarat has reported more than 5.96 lakh women achieving the status of ‘Lakhpati Didi’, marking a significant milestone in rural women’s income generation and economic participation under the central government’s livelihood programmes. The achievement comes as the country marks 12 years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tenure, during which several initiatives aimed at women’s financial inclusion and entrepreneurship have been introduced.Programmes such as th…

Bhopal, June 9 (IANS) Political temperatures rose in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday after the nomination of Congress Rajya Sabha candidate Meenakshi Natarajan was rejected during scrutiny, with Chief Minister Mohan Yadav alleging the party fielded a candidate with a concealed criminal record and lacked support from its own MLAs. “The Congress leadership realised that the MLAs were not standing by them, which is why they withheld key information from Meenakshi Natarajan’s affidavit,” Yadav said …