Majority of dams in Kota are on the brink of overflow on Saturday following torrential rain in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh and Kota on Friday.Flood-like situation was witnessed at many low-lying areas from where at least 500 families since Saturday early morning were taken to safer altitudes. District and police administration with the help of state disaster relief force (SDRF) were on the job of arranging places for the families who were rescued and shifted to safer places. Similarly, heavy rai… - 8 hours ago, 15 Sep 19, 7:28am -
In two separate cases reported in Chittorgarh, two minor girls have complained of sexual abuse, one by the girl’s biological father and other where the mother forcibly used to send the minor to a man who raped her for months. Both the cases have been registered after complaints by the child helpline officials. - 8 hours ago, 15 Sep 19, 7:23am -
Two personnel of Alwar police were severely beaten up when their bid to mediate in a family dispute went awry on Saturday. Sub-inspector Ram Swaroop, and constable Shiv Ratan, are critically injured and are currently undergoing treatment at a hospital. The officials informed TOI that both the cops were posted at Mundawar police station. They had gone to Jangiwada village in order to settle a dispute between two families. - 8 hours ago, 15 Sep 19, 7:21am -
Rajasthan has the second highest number of Hindi speakers in the country making the desert state the ‘heart’ of the Hindi belt.Leading the pack is Uttar Pradesh where 94% of the population has registered Hindi as their first language while Rajasthan’s 89% populace speaks the same language, a - 8 hours ago, 15 Sep 19, 7:04am -
DCP (East) of Jodhpur Dharmendra Singh Yadav had a narrow escape here on Saturday afternoon as bullets fired by gangsters hit his vehicle during a gun fight between police and criminals. - 9 hours ago, 15 Sep 19, 6:45am -
RSS-backed Amber MLA Satish Poonia became the first Jat president of Rajasthan BJP on Saturday. His appointment comes just over three months after death of former state chief Madan Lal Saini in June and ahead of the crucial civic and panchayat polls which are likely to be held later this year. - 9 hours ago, 15 Sep 19, 6:41am -
Eight months after eight-year-old Jayesh Sharma was first attacked by a pack of dogs, he had to face the same ordeal again in Jaipur's Mansarovar area in Rajasthan on Friday. - 17 hours ago, 14 Sep 19, 10:05pm -
Unidentified criminals looted Rs 1 lakh from a petrol pump station in Renwal near Jaipur on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday. - 1 day ago, 14 Sep 19, 7:17am -
Rajasthan police officer Kamal Shekhawat was among the five women police officers who were honoured by the United Nations for their commendable services in the world body’s mission in South Sudan, in a ceremony held on September 10. - 1 day ago, 14 Sep 19, 7:08am -
Chief minister Ashok Gehlot alleged that people, including the bureaucrats, are feeling suffocated under the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre. - 1 day ago, 14 Sep 19, 7:05am -
A day after tiger T-104 killed a youth in Karauli, the forest officials are yet again chasing the animal that was tranquilised and relocated five times in the past but always kept returning to the same area. - 1 day ago, 14 Sep 19, 7:00am -
The Jaipur zonal office of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has unearthed a major international hawala racket and seized Rs 4.25 crore in cash during searches at nine places in the city and in New Delhi. - 1 day ago, 14 Sep 19, 6:55am -
he Congress party in Rajasthan will take part in the pan-India agitation against the faulty economic policies of the Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre. Massive agitation would be organised across the state at district and block levels on September 20. - 2 days ago, 13 Sep 19, 12:24pm -
The 160MW third unit of gas-based power project in Ramgarh area of Jaisalmer is lying closed for last nine months as gas is not being supplied to it. As a result, the government is suffering huge losses. - 2 days ago, 13 Sep 19, 12:22pm -
A case of triple talaq has been lodged in Barmer after the court asked the police to do so. The victim has alleged that her husband after beating her expelled her out of the house by pronouncing talaq three times and threatened to kill her. - 2 days ago, 13 Sep 19, 12:21pm -
The Special Operations Group (SOG) of Rajasthan police on Thursday arrested five accused including the gunman who had fired at Behror police station with AK47 and spirited away dreaded gangster Vikram Singh alias Papla from police custody on september 6. - 2 days ago, 13 Sep 19, 7:44am -
While the movement for Right To Information Act started from Rajasthan, another step towards strengthening the flow of latest information to the public has been initiated in the state with the launch of a Jan Soochna portal. - 2 days ago, 13 Sep 19, 7:31am -
A 30-year-old man was mauled to death by a tiger, identified as T-104, in Simar-Bagh village of Karauli district on Thursday morning. This is the third such attack by the sub-adult male tiger which resulted in the death of the victim. - 2 days ago, 13 Sep 19, 7:24am -
A 20-year-old youth died after he fell from a nine-storey commercial building on Thursday early morning near Jhotwara. However, his parents have alleged that their son was murdered. - 2 days ago, 13 Sep 19, 7:19am -
