Rajasthan News

The rivers and water bodies in Hadouti region have been overflowing since the area has been witnessing moderate to heavy rainfall since Monday noon.

The flight was scheduled to take off from here at 2.55 pm but there was a mention of the bomb by a passenger in an argument with the flight staff which triggered the panic.

Days after a woman gave birth to a child outside a state-run hospital in Jaipur, a nurse was removed after she was found guilty of medical negligence, following an enquiry ordered by the state government.

Rajasthan's Food and Supplies Minister Babu Lal Verma's car collided with a buffalo on National Highway number 76 at around 1 am and overturned. 

The Airports Authority of India manages 125 airports, which include 18 international airports and 78 domestic airports.

Normal life in Jalore, Pali and Sirohi districts has been badly affected for over a week due to heavy downpour.

Sanchore is completely disconnected from the rest of Rajasthan owing to the floods.

Though people were seen rushing to their aid, the strong currents were not letting the sheep reach the banks. 

A Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Jodhpur was hit by a bird near the Jodhpur Airport on Friday.

In Bundi, 43 children have been rescued, said in-charge of the district's anti-human trafficking cell Kaniz Fatima.

The incident occurred at International College for Girls in Jaipur's Mansarovar area.

Military was on Monday called out to help in relief and rescue operations in some districts of Gujarat and Rajasthan.

At least nine persons, including six women, were killed and 22 injured when a bus overturned near Udaipur in Rajasthan on Saturday morning, police said.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, who was in Rajasthan to address a rally in Banswara, also visited the state capital on Tuesday to meet his relatives here.

In a suspected case of honour killing, a married woman who had eloped with another man last year was allegedly strangulated to death by her father in Rajasthan's Sikar district, police said on Friday.

Notorious gangster Anand Pal Singh's encounter on June 24 has triggered violence in some parts of Rajasthan prompting the authorities to clamp Section 144 in four districts and suspending internet services till situation normalises.

At least 16 policemen were injured, including a Superintendent of Police, in violence in a village in Rajasthan`s Nagaur district on Wednesday over an alleged staged gunfight, police said.

The kanwariyas (devotees of Lord Shiva) were on the way to Omkareshwar in Madhya Pradesh from New Delhi in a truck when the accident took place near Saroli crossing.

The high court summoned the prospective groom Waseem Khan and issued notice to him seeking a reply.

The "deal" was fixed at Rs 10,000 and Gupta had already taken Rs 8,000, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ACB) Rajneesh Punia said.
 

Four fire tenders have been pressed into service to control the fire.

A MiG-23 trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Thursday crashed in Rajasthan's Jodhpur district, with both the pilots ejecting safely.

A terror suspect, accused of transferring funds to the dreaded terror outfit ISIS, was arrested by the Rajasthan Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) in Chennai early Tuesday.

The panchayat was reportedly called to discuss social reforms like prohibition of liquor, betting and tobacco.

The family members continued to keep the body on ice bricks, refusing to cremate him, eight days after he was gunned down by the Rajasthan police in an encounter.

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) came into force after 17 tumultuous years of debate at the stroke of midnight on June 30.

Speaking at the dargah of Usman Harwani, the mentor of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chisti, he lamented how the separatists were forcing the youths to pelt stones at the security forces.

Three persons lost their lives after inhaling poisonous gas in a deep pit in Baran district of Rajasthan.

Trader association spokesperson Arun Agrawal said the traders were against the "excessive tax slabs" and "complex processes" under the GST regime.

According to officials, Dr Surendra Bahri did not adopt any medical procedure to revive the woman who was brought to the hospital in an unconscious state yesterday.