A court in Jodhpur on Saturday framed revised charges against actors Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam and Sonali Bendre in a 14-year-old case of poaching two black bucks. All the actors, who were present in court, denied the charges and pled innocent.

The RSS in its annual meeting of the Pratinidhi Sabha, the highest body of decision making, has expressed concerns over the aggravation of economic crisis and blamed the UPA government for neglecting the agriculture sector. The RSS reiterated its earlier stand on Ram Setu and warned the government to respect the people’s sentiments and not touch it.

The house of gangrape accused Ram Singh at his ancestral village of Kalladah, under Karauli district in Rajasthan, wore a deserted look as his mother and uncle Mangilal moved to Delhi only a fortnight

Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Saturday spent 35 minutes at the historic shrine of the mystic saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer and offered prayers amid protest and boycott by the spiritual head of the shrine. The police resorted to mild lathicharge to disperse the protesters and changed the route.

The protest by policemen against the high court order to shift half-a-dozen senior police officers, including Jaipur police commissioner B.L. Soni, for their alleged role in high-handedness in dealing with the striking lawyers intensified across the state.

A local court in Bhilwara awarded life imprisonment to four people for raping a minor girl after abducting her while she was attending to her mother in a hospital. But the court acquitted one of the accused as the prosecution could not establish the case against him. The court also slapped a fine of `15,000 on the convicts. The court pronounced its verdict in Bhilwara on Friday.

Former Rajasthan CM and state BJP president Vasundhara Raje is all set to launch a statewide yatra soon after the Budget Session of the Assembly. According to party sources, Raje camp leaders have been busy finalising the route for the yatra to consolidate the party’s position ahead of the Assembly elections due in year-end.

Though the BJP leadership tried to bring rival camps together to put up a united face before the Rajasthan Assembly elections, differences refuse to die down. Senior BJP leader and former minister Ghanshyam Tiwari has shown reluctance to continue with his present position as deputy leader of the Opposition. Mr Tiwari was greeted with slogans like “chief minister kaisa ho Tiwari jaisa ho” when he visited Bikaner on Saturday.

The Rajasthan police has arrested Bahadur Singh, father of a five-month-old baby girl who died here at a government hospital on Wednesday, for causing grievous injuries to his daughter and Section 302 of the IPC for murder has been slapped against him, SP Bikaner Rakesh Saxena said.

Radha, a five-month-old girl severely injured when her drunk father chewed off her upper lips and nose in a fit of rage, died at Jaipur’s SMS Hospital Wednesday. She was brought from Bikaner to Jaipur for plastic surgery.
Doctors who operated last Friday said her condition worsened after being breast-fed by her mother as milk entered her lungs.