Wind power firms left in the lurch
Jaipur: Despite power regulator Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission (RERC) reversing an order passed by the previous government last year and bringing in fresh norms to ensure continuity in renewable
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Government to observe ‘dry day’ on Sundays
JAIPUR: The state government has issued orders for observing every Sunday as ‘dry day’. Relax, beer guzzlers, wine lovers and regular tipplers, the order is not related to booze. Health department will
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Hub of windmill falls to pieces in Jaisalmer
Jaisalmer: The hub of a windmill suddenly fell down, along with its blades and broke into pieces, in Badabagh area in Jaisalmer, on Saturday. A big accident was averted as there was no one around, at the
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‘Raj used only 12% fund for welfare of mining–hit people’
Jaipur: Rajasthan has used only 12% of the allocation of fund for District Mineral Foundation (DMF), a trust to work for the interest and benefit of persons and areas affected by mining related operations,
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HC asks CS be present in the court on condtion of water bodies in the state
Jaipur: The high court has directed the chief secretary to be present in the court on July 27 with a comprehensive water conservation plan to save the dams as the government has been found lacking in implementing
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Raj to ‘replicate’ Ujjain cancer care model
Jaipur: The health department is taking lessons from Ujjain’s hospital in developing cancer care facilities in its district hospitals across the state. The health department had sent its nurses and doctors
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Activists worry over rising pollution of Chambal river
Kota: Constant flow of polluted water and waste through 28 nullahs into the Chambal river, one of the least non-polluted rivers in the country so far, has pushed environmentalists and activists of the
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Govt gears up to curb swine flu
Jaipur: With rains lashing the state, health department is apprehensive that swine flu and scrub typhus cases might resurface in the state. The health department has geared up to prevent spread of the
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1.14 lakh mosquito breeding sites found in rural areas
JAIPUR: One lakh fourteen thousand mosquito breeding sites found in houses in rural areas setting alarm bells ringing. The season of vector-borne disease has reached the doorstep. More monsoon rains lashing
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Raj fails to ensure genetic diversity of tigers at Mukundra: NTCA to HC
Jaipur: The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has pointed out that the state forest department not only violated law in the relocation of tiger T-91 to the Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve (MHTR)
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Untreated water being released into Bandi river
JODHPUR: Amid the unabated pollution in Bandi river and Nehra dam by the effluent discharged by the textile industries in Pali district, the divisional commissioner of Jodhpur visited the affected areas