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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...

Jaipur, December 13 The swearing-in ceremony of Bhajan Lal Sharma, the chief minister-designate in Rajasthan, and his deputies Diya Kumari and Prem Chand Bairwa will be held on December 15. A BJP spokesperson said the oath ceremony will be held...

Chandigarh, December 13 The video of a mysterious chit at the ceremony to announce the Rajasthan CM’s name has gone viral. The BJP announced its chief minister for Rajasthan in Jaipur on December 12. Elected for the first time to...

Chandigarh, December 13 Gangster Rohit Godara–the mastermind behind the sensational murder of Shri Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena chief Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi–escaped India by travelling to the US using the illegal ‘Donkey Flight’ technique. Godara, a resident of Bikaner’s Lunakaran, can’t...

Deepender Deswal Hisar, December 12 Investigations into the Sidhu Moosewala murder in Punjab and Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi’s killing in Rajasthan have revealed a growing nexus between drug peddlers and gangsters in Hisar, Sirsa and Fatehabad districts. “Most of drug addicts,...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, December 13 The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday pulled another surprise in the ongoing series across the Hindi heartland by picking an organisation man and first-time MLA from Sanganer in Jaipur, Bhajanlal Sharma as the chief...

Kota (Rajasthan), December 12 A 17-year-old IIT-JEE aspirant was beaten to death in Indira Vihar area here, police said on Tuesday. The deceased was attacked with iron rods and chains by some youths, who were also reportedly coaching students, while...

Jaipur, December 12 A woman allegedly associated with a criminal network was arrested on Monday in connection with the murder of Karni Sena chief Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi, police said. The three men, including two shooters, arrested for their alleged involvement...

Chandigarh, December 12 The suspense over who will be the new chief minister of Rajasthan is likely to end Tuesday evening with a BJP Legislature Party meeting scheduled to be held at 4 pm. BJP state general secretary and MLA...

Neeraj Mohan New Delhi, December 10 The Centre has said that in addition to incidents in Punjab and Haryana, the burning of paddy residue in several districts of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan also contributes significantly to the deterioration of...

New Delhi, December 10 The suspense over the names of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh CMs is set to end soon with the BJP legislature party meetings in both states scheduled to be held on Monday. Central BJP observers have reached...