Rajasthan Villagers

The Rajasthan government will soon recruit 3,896 village development officers, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on Tuesday.

A 15-year-old boy died as a wall of his house collapsed on him in a village in Jhalawar district on Friday following incessant rainfall over the past few days, police said.

A government school teacher was thrashed by villagers for allegedly sending obscene messages and videos to a Class 10 student in Rajasthan's Sikar district, the police said on Saturday.

Twenty-one people died in as many days at a village in Rajasthan's Sikar district allegedly after a COVID-19-infected corpse was buried without following protocol.

A four-year-old boy fell into a nearly 90-foot-deep open borewell in a village in Rajasthan's Jalore district on Thursday, police said.

A man in a village in Rajasthan's Nagaur district hired a helicopter to bring home his newborn daughter from the house of her maternal grandparents on Wednesday.

In a tragic incident, five children suffocated to death after they jumped into a grain storage container while playing at Himmatasar village in Rajasthan's Bikaner on Sunday, police said.

A rape survivor who was burnt in Goluwala village of Hanumangarh district in Rajasthan died due to injuries in Jaipur during treatment on Friday.

A 27-year-old man was sentenced to life in jail till death for raping three five-to-nine-year-old girls in his village under Simliya police station area of Kota district over three years ago.

In a case of mass kidnapping, a group of over 100 people from a village in Madhya Pradesh allegedly kidnapped 38 tribal women and children from Rajasthan on suspicion that their men were involved in stealing bikes, the police said on Thursday.

A 28-year-old man was thrashed, garlanded with shoes and paraded naked in a village in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district for allegedly sexually harassing a woman, police said on Monday.

The BJP today claimed big gains in Rajasthan with the ruling Congress, fresh out of a revolt that almost brought down its government earlier this year, losing in most of the 21 districts that voted in local body polls.

Rajasthan BJP president Satish Poonia on Sunday said there is an anti-incumbency wave against the Congress government across villages and cities in the state as it has failed on various public issues.

The government has assured that Rs 10 lakh compensation, and Rs 1.5 lakh under PM Awas Yojana will be given to the family members of the priest who was allegedly burnt alive by land encroachers in Karauli's Bukna village, said BJP MP KL Meena on Saturday.

Family members of a priest, who died due to burn injuries after he was attacked by a group of people over a land dispute in village in Rajasthan on Thursday night, have refused to perform the last rites of his body till all their demands are met by the state government.

The Rajasthan government will soon recruit 3,896 village development officers, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on Tuesday.

A 15-year-old boy died as a wall of his house collapsed on him in a village in Jhalawar district on Friday following incessant rainfall over the past few days, police said.

A government school teacher was thrashed by villagers for allegedly sending obscene messages and videos to a Class 10 student in Rajasthan's Sikar district, the police said on Saturday.

Twenty-one people died in as many days at a village in Rajasthan's Sikar district allegedly after a COVID-19-infected corpse was buried without following protocol.

A four-year-old boy fell into a nearly 90-foot-deep open borewell in a village in Rajasthan's Jalore district on Thursday, police said.

A man in a village in Rajasthan's Nagaur district hired a helicopter to bring home his newborn daughter from the house of her maternal grandparents on Wednesday.

In a tragic incident, five children suffocated to death after they jumped into a grain storage container while playing at Himmatasar village in Rajasthan's Bikaner on Sunday, police said.

A rape survivor who was burnt in Goluwala village of Hanumangarh district in Rajasthan died due to injuries in Jaipur during treatment on Friday.

A 27-year-old man was sentenced to life in jail till death for raping three five-to-nine-year-old girls in his village under Simliya police station area of Kota district over three years ago.

In a case of mass kidnapping, a group of over 100 people from a village in Madhya Pradesh allegedly kidnapped 38 tribal women and children from Rajasthan on suspicion that their men were involved in stealing bikes, the police said on Thursday.

A 28-year-old man was thrashed, garlanded with shoes and paraded naked in a village in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district for allegedly sexually harassing a woman, police said on Monday.

The BJP today claimed big gains in Rajasthan with the ruling Congress, fresh out of a revolt that almost brought down its government earlier this year, losing in most of the 21 districts that voted in local body polls.

Rajasthan BJP president Satish Poonia on Sunday said there is an anti-incumbency wave against the Congress government across villages and cities in the state as it has failed on various public issues.

The government has assured that Rs 10 lakh compensation, and Rs 1.5 lakh under PM Awas Yojana will be given to the family members of the priest who was allegedly burnt alive by land encroachers in Karauli's Bukna village, said BJP MP KL Meena on Saturday.

Family members of a priest, who died due to burn injuries after he was attacked by a group of people over a land dispute in village in Rajasthan on Thursday night, have refused to perform the last rites of his body till all their demands are met by the state government.