New Delhi, February 27 Six persons were detained as National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday raided multiple locations in Punjab and Rajasthan to dismantle terror-criminal nexus in the country, an official said. The searches are still underway at 14 locations...
Jaipur, February 26 A 25-year-old rape survivor was seriously injured when she was shot at and attacked with a sharp-edged weapon by a man accused of raping her and his two accomplices in Kotputli-Behror district of Rajasthan. The woman’s brother...
Kota (Rajasthan), February 24 A 17-year-old JEE aspirant who went missing from his hostel here on February 13 was traced to Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, police said on Saturday. The boy, Piyush Kapasia of Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahar, left his hostel...
Jaipur, February 20 Congress leader Sonia Gandhi was on Tuesday elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan, said the Assembly secretary. Along with Sonia Gandhi, BJP’s Chunnilal Garasiya and Madan Rathore were also elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from...
Jaipur, February 19 In a setback to the Congress in Rajasthan, four-time MLA and former minister Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya joined the BJP on Monday. Malviya, the MLA from Bagidora in Banswara district, said he joined the BJP for the development...
Jaipur, February 15 Rajasthan Police have arrested four students pursuing NEET coaching in Kota for allegedly raping a 16-year-old student, who was also preparing to crack the medical entrance test, officials said on Thursday, adding that a case under POCSO...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, February 14 Five-time Lok Sabha MP and former Congress president Sonia Gandhi was on Wednesday named the party candidate from Rajasthan. With the nomination, Sonia, 77, has effectively ended her 25-year-old Lok Sabha run on the...
Jaipur, February 8 Provision of Rs 1,000 crore to establish and upgrade schools, colleges, hospitals and administrative buildings in Assembly constituencies, recruitment to fill 70,000 posts were among the key announcements by Rajasthan Finance Minister Diya Kumari, who presented the...
Jaipur, February 3 Former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot was admitted to Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital here with a fever and low oxygen saturation after he tested positive for Covid-19 and swine flu. In a post on X on...
Kota (Rajasthan), February 3 Days after a NEET aspirant from Uttar Pradesh hanged himself to death in his hostel room here, the district administration seized the facility as it lacked ‘anti-suicide devices’ in ceiling fans, officials said on Saturday. The...
Kota (Rajasthan), February 2 A final year BTech student allegedly died by suicide by hanging from a ceiling fan in his paying guest room in Rajasthan’s Kota, police said on Friday. Noor Mohammed (27) took the extreme step sometime on...
Kota (Rajasthan), January 30 A 24-year-old youth alleged killed his beloved after scuffle at a farmhouse in Ballop village of Bundi district on Tuesday, police said. The incident took place on Tuesday evening under the Talera police station area, they...
Jaipur, January 30 A group of girl students from a government school in Jaipur gathered outside the Subhash Chowk police station here on Monday and raised slogans against BJP MLA Balmukund Acharya, demanding action against him for his remarks of...
Lucknow, January 30 Lucknow police have arrested a man who had supplied stolen vehicles to the infamous Lawrence Bishnoi gang. The police have also solved multiple cases of car thefts with this arrest. Satendra Singh Shekhawat, 43, who hails from...
Jaipur, January 23 An IAS officer and two RAS officers were on Tuesday removed and placed under Awaiting Posting Orders (APO) status after they were found absent during Rajasthan Chief Secretary Sudhansh Pant’s surprise visit to the Jaipur Development Authority...
Jaipur, January 22 Five friends were killed when their SUV overturned after hitting a road divider on the Gogunda-Pindwada highway in Udaipur district of Rajasthan, police said on Monday. The accident occurred on Sunday night under Bekaria police station. SHO,...
Jaipur, January 18 The Rajasthan Cabinet on Thursday postponed the state administrative service main exam and declared the BJP’s election manifesto as a policy document. In its first meeting, Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma’s Cabinet also decided to review the decisions...
Kota, January 9 A POCSO court here on Tuesday sentenced a 25-year-old man to 20 years in jail for raping a minor despite the survivor and her family members turning hostile, an official said. The court gave the verdict based...
Shubhadeep Choudhury New Delhi, January 8 In a setback for the ruling BJP in Rajasthan, Congress candidate Rupinder Singh Kooner defeated BJP’s Surenderpal Singh in the Karanpur bypoll by a margin of 11,283 votes. Kooner secured 94,950 votes in the...
Jaipur, December 8 Rajasthan state minister Surendra Pal Singh lost the Assembly election in the Karanpur constituency by a margin of 11,283 votes to his Congress rival on Monday, an embarrassing defeat for the BJP days after it assumed office...
Jaipur, January 6 The Rajasthan government has transferred 72 Indian Administrative Service officers and 121 Rajasthan Administrative Service officers, in the first bureaucratic reshuffle after the Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma-led BJP dispensation came to power in the state. The transfer...
New Delhi, January 3 The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday arrested a key suspect in the killing of Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena chief Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi in Jaipur last month, as it carried out raids at 31 locations in...
Jaipur, January 2 A truckers’ protest against the Centre’s new law on hit-and-run cases turned violent in the Kekri district of Rajasthan where a mob burnt a police vehicle and pelted stones at security personnel, leaving three injured, police said...
Jaipur, December 30 Surendra Pal Singh, the BJP’s nominee for the January 5 election to the Karanpur assembly constituency, was inducted as a minister in the Rajasthan government Saturday, drawing flak from the Congress which accused the ruling party of...
Jaipur, December 30 Former Union minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and senior BJP leader Kirodi Lal Meena were among 12 MLAs sworn in as Cabinet ministers in the Bhajan Lal Sharma-led BJP government in Rajasthan on Saturday. In addition, 10 ministers...
Sheopur, December 25 A cheetah that was released into the wild recently was tranquilised and brought back to Kuno National Park in Sheopur in Madhya Pradesh on Monday evening after it strayed into Rajasthan’s Baran district, an official said. The...
Jaipur, December 25 Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma on Monday said none of the welfare schemes launched by the previous Congress government in the state will be discontinued. He was speaking at a function organised by the BJP to...
Jaipur, December 24 Three police constables have been booked for raping an 18-year-old woman for more than a year in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, officials said on Sunday. Superintendent of Police (SP) Anand Sharma told PTI that the woman gave a...
New Delhi, December 15 First-time MLA Bhajan Lal Sharma on Friday took oath as the 14th Chief Minister of Rajasthan, commencing a new chapter in the state as also in power politics within the ruling saffron party. The oathtaking ceremony...
Jaipur, December 15 A group photo taken at the BJP office here ahead of the legislature party meeting earlier this week showed Bhajan Lal Sharma in the very last row. But an hour or so later, he had jumped places...