Half a dozen people have been detained for interrogation in connection with the death of two Muslim men whose bodies were found in a car in Haryana after they were allegedly abducted by cow vigilantes, according to police.
'But unlike Punjab, the rebels have an alternative -- the BJP'
The Congress has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of making efforts to topple the Gehlot government by indulging in horse-trading.
While the armed forces won hearts, the Uttarakhand government and civil administration drew flak for the poor disaster management. N Sundaresha Subramanian gives an eyewitness account of the rescue effort.
Villager are treating the project as a 'golden goose' and are demanding huge compensation for their land.
'I know people will say I am raising this issue because I have lost. There have been a lot of complaints about the electronic voting machines. There is a view that the machines were defective. 'When advanced countries like Japan and the US have discarded the use of these machines and gone back to using ballot papers, the Election Commission should take a fresh look at this,' former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot tells Anita Katyal.
All India Congress Committee President Sonia Gandhi on Monday offered a chadar at the dargah of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti on the occasion of the 801st Urs.
Ten states and Union Territories had endorsed FDI in the sector by August 13.
Vasundhara Raje, who failed five years ago on account of infighting in the Bharatiya Janata party, reinvented herself and galvanised the cadre to spearhead her party's spectacular comeback to power in Rajasthan.
The Congress president had left on August 23 to visit her ailing mother, who was in her 90s.
Former judge of the Rajasthan high court Justice Sajjan Singh Kothari was on Monday sworn in as Lokayukta.
The meeting with Antony comes days after an open rebellion by Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot loyalists on a possible leadership change in the state
She will discuss with Ashok Gehlot the political situation in Rajasthan, where discontent is brewing over his leadership.
Giriraj Singh Malinga said he had alerted Gehlot ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls that a conspiracy was going on to topple his government.
Senior Congress leaders will be in Jaipur on Tuesday for a day's visit to finalise the arrangements for the three-day weekend extravaganza which will see over 5,000 party workers assemble in the pink city to chalk out party's road map for future challenges, reports Renu Mittal.
"Our target was the decimation of the Samajwadi Party and we have succeeded in it," Salman Khursheed said, congratulating Mayawati on her party's performance.
Kumar, a resident of Bhagwan village in Hanumangarh, worked as a manger with Ellaqui Dehati Bank at Areh Mohanpora branch in the south Kashmir district.
An explosion occurred on a railway track in Udaipur on Sunday, hours before the recently inaugurated Asarwa-Udaipur Express train from Ahmedabad was to pass.
The doctors' bodies said that the two sides reached consensus during talks with the state government agreeing to keep private hospitals that have not availed land at subsidised rates or other benefits from it outside the ambit of the proposed law.
The services of Yaduveer Singh Rathore, Acting CMHO Pali, Dulichand, CMHO Jalore and ten medical officers in different parts of the state were terminated for being involved in the strike and causing huge inconvenience to patients, the official said.
With four more people, including two children, falling prey to rain-related incidents, the death toll in the deluge on Monday increased to 37 in Rajasthan.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Indresh Kumar, whose name figures in the ATS charge sheet, claimed the case against him was "totally fabricated and a political conspiracy", but the Rajasthan chief minister rejected the charge.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday wrote to the Enforcement Directorate seeking postponement of her appearance by a few weeks till she recovers completely from Covid and a lung infection.
Heralding a great transformation in the state's transport network, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday flagged off the trial run of the Jaipur Metro.
Chief ministers of 3 Congress-ruled states, other national and state party leaders are also likely to accompany Rahul to the court.
Only those vehicles which are used for essential services have been kept out of the order. State highway tolls will also be closed from Monday midnight.
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said the government had requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to accord 'backward' status to Rajasthan in view of the water scarcity in the desert state, but the Centre had refused its plea. He was addressing the House during Question Hour, after a Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Legislative Assembly raised concerns about water purification practices adopted by the state public health and engineering department.
Sacked Rajasthan Minister Mahipal Maderna was on Friday arrested by the CBI along with the brother of a ruling Congress MLA in Bhanwari Devi abduction case, hours after the agency filed a charge sheet against three other accused.
'Anybody is free and welcome to contest in the election if they have the backing of 10 PCC delegates'
'On a visit to the hospital for a separate procedure, I have tested positive for COVID19 today,' he tweeted. 'I request the people who came in contact with me in the last week, to please self isolate and get tested for COVID-19,' Mukherjee said.
Leaders of several like-minded opposition parties are likely to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Karnataka chief minister-designate Siddaramaiah and deputy chief minister D K Shivakumar on Saturday in Bengaluru.
The Rajasthan government on Friday night announced a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the community clash in Bharatpur's Gopalgarh village which left eight people dead.
Apart from being the CM twice earlier, he has won a series of Lok Sabha and assembly elections from the state and headed the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee four times.
What some of our leaders were up to on the weekend.
In an interesting development, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee who is very much in the news these days would be travelling by a special plane to Udaipur, Rajsamand and Nathdwara temple in Rajasthan, accompanied by Union Road and Transport Minister C P Joshi for a one-day trip to the state on Saturday.
The ACB had issued notices to MLAs Bhanwarlal Sharma and Vishvendra Singh, who have been suspended from the party for alleged involvement in a conspiracy to topple the Ashok Gehlot-led government, to appear for investigation, but they failed to do so.
'Nobody understands Gehlot's politics.' 'The Congress high command should wake up.'
"All legislators will remain united and stay together till August 14," Congress chief whip Mahesh Joshi said after the CLP meeting chaired by Gehlot.
