JAIPUR: The water department has raised an alarm over the depleting drinking water sources in the state and proposed an increase in the water rates to contain the situation.

JAIPUR: Member of Parliament and chairman of the Parliamentary Forum for HIV/AIDS Oscar Fernandes on Monday said that around 40% of the people living with HIV/AIDS are less than 15-year-old in the state. State legislators and experts on AIDS expressing their concern during the seminar held at the Birla Auditorium, said that increasing pre-marital sex and transmission of HIV from pregnant mother

JAIPUR: After completing issuance of notices for land acquisition for phase-I metro project, the Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation (JMRC) has now started the same process for the second phase.

Though the JMRC has not finalised on the company which will undertake the metro work under Private Public Partnership ( PPP) model, notices for acquiring land for metro car depot (phase- II) under section 4(1

JAIPUR: The Dungarpur-Banswara-Ratlam rail line project, the foundation stone for which would be laid by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Friday, is likely to benefit the state Congress and chief minister Ashok Gehlot greatly.

For years now, Banswara has been eagerly awaiting a rail link. The tribal district has no rail lines passing through.

JAIPUR: Continuous depletion of ground water in the state has become a cause for concern and people's help is needed to conserve water. This was the crux of the discussion organised by the ground water department on Wednesday. Strategies to meet the water crisis were also discussed at the workshop.

"The government alone can't solve problem.

JAIPUR: Three years after the relocation of the first tiger to the Sariska reserve, an initiative has been launched to rebuild the lost glory of the reserve.

JAIPUR: Radio collar on tigers will soon become a thing of the past. The state forest department is working on a plan wherein trap cameras will take pictures of tigers in the forests and transmit them to a centre for the department to monitor movements of the big cats.

RN Mehrotra, head of forest forces in Rajasthan, said: "We have prepared a plan and sent it to the Centre.

JAIPUR: Three years after the relocation of the first tiger to the Sariska reserve, an initiative has been launched to rebuild the lost glory of the reserve.

JAIPUR: It has been about three years since the first tiger was re-located to Sariska National Park from Ranthambhore.

JAIPUR: Reacting to the farmers' agitation in Bikaner, chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said the protest over amendment in the Land Acquisition Act is an ill-timed one as the state government is ready with the New Land Acquisition Policy.

Gehlot said keeping interest of the farmers as top priority, he himself had mentioned about the New Land Acquisition Policy while presenting the stat