The police has arrested a leader of the ruling Congress on charges of rape and attempt to murder.

The BJP’s move in Rajasthan before senior party leader L.K. Advani’s proposed Rath Yatra suffered an embarrassment when the party MLA Hanuman Beniwal launched an attack on the previous BJP government saying its ministers were indulged in corruption.

The missing Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer Naveen Jain, of Rajasthan cadre, was found near Chandigarh at a friend’s place on Sunday.

Mystery shrouded the deaths of two newborn baby girls in the border district of Jaisalmer while the district administration has ordered a probe into the deaths.

After a lull, the differences in the Rajasthan Bharatiya Janata Party resurfaced when most of the senior leaders skipped the core committee meeting which had been slated to formulate a strategy for the future.

Though the recent Mumbai blast has disturbed the gem and jewellery industry of Jaipur, it has not stopped its members from planning the upcoming fifth Gem and Jewellery show, JAS 11, from July 22.

Even though, there is no dearth of scientific gadgets and instruments to predict monsoon, astrologers in Jaipur still stick with the centuries old tradition of making prediction after analysing wind direction at India’s oldest astronomical observatory, the Jantar Mantar. “We predict good rains,” says Pandit Akhilesh after the analysing the direction of the wind.

Four-year-old Ashish spent hours with his father Sharvan’s dead body on the railway tracks on Saturday night as both fell off the Malani Express between Jodhpur and Merta stations. A railway employee noticed the boy while passing through the tracks on Sunday morning and informed the police.

Though no one can cross the Indo-Pak border of the desert region of Rajasthan, the security guards could not stop Sindhi songs, penned by singers as their tribute to Pakistan’s late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, from reaching Barmer district’s villages.

Human right groups have made a fresh appeal to secure amnesty on humanitarian grounds for jailed Pakistani virologist Dr Khaleel Chishty in Ajmer while right wing Hindu activists also geared up to oppose such attempts. “We hope for the best, insallah sab theek hoga” Dr Chishty told local media while going for medical check up.