Jaipur: As the work on Jaipur Metro project advances many residents along the proposed corridor are worried. The trader association of New Sanganer Road met the local MLA (Civil Lines) Pratap Singh Khachariyawas and protested against the proposed land acquisition.

Jaipur: The state

Jaipur/Alwar: With the state forest department intensifying probe into the death of male tiger ST-1, political interventions have started increasing, threatening to derail investigations.
According to sources,

Fund for Nature-India along with the state forest department is running the centre since 2006, which received the award at the Wetland Link InterNational Symposium held in Malaysia last month.

Ajay Parmar | TNN

Jodhpur: In a major setback to the state government, the Rajasthan High Court on Monday stayed the allotment process of 1,117 sandstone mining leases at Sihanda in Balesar tehsil of Jodhpur district.
The leases were being granted without taking the environmental clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF).

Rachna Singh | TNN

Jaipur: Despite Union minister for forest and environment minister Jairam Ramesh writing to the state government thrice on the mining around wildlife sanctuaries like Sariska, CM Ashok Gehlot remains unfazed.
The CM has claimed that illegal mining is not taking place in the state, and areas where mining operations are on, are in conformity with the norms.
In the let

Jaipur. Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in Jaipur has excelled in innovation, ahead of similar urban transport projects in the country. The project was awarded the Overall Excellence in Urban Transport at the Urban Mobility India 2010 Conference and Expo on Sunday.

Anindo Dey | TNN Jaipur: It’s official: the first tiger ST-1 relocated to Sariska from the Ranthambore reserve was poisoned to death. Forensic test reports have confirmed the presence of poison in body parts of the big cat. “The forensic tests have confirmed presence of an insecticide,’’ said H M Bhatia, chief wildlife warden, Rajasthan.

Poaching Threat Looms Large, Slack Monitoring System
Anindo Dey | TNN

Jaipur: The recent death of a tiger at the Sariska reserve and a complete reshuffle of officials later, it is a failed system that the state forest department is slowly but steadily getting entrapped into.