Jaipur Apr 26 PTI A man was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the gang rape and murder of a 35-year-old woman in Rajasthans Dausa district police saidThis is the second arrest in the caseThe woman was going to her maternal home from Jaipur and took a lift following which the accused allegedly raped her and then dumped her body in a well on Saturday police saidKaluram the main accused in the kidnapping gang-rape and murder case was arrested on Monday while Sanju was apprehended on Tuesday Additional Superintendent of Police Dausa Dinesh Kumar Sharma saidHe said that a case has been registered against them under Indian Penal Code sections 376 d gang rape 302 murder and 366 kidnappingBJP state president Satish Poonia has constituted a five-member committee under the leadership of the deputy leader of opposition in the Rajasthan assembly Rajendra Rathore to submit a report on the matter in three daysRathore who reached Dausa with his team while talking to reporters demanded that the state government give compensation to the victims family immediately and take steps to prevent such incidents PTI AG AG ANB ANB

Jaipur Apr 23 PTI In the continued slugfest between the BJP and Congress over the demolition of two temples in the Alwar district a saffron party MP on Friday asserted that the Rajgarh municipality headed by his party had not cleared any proposal to demolish the shrines Jaipur Rural MP Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore alleged that the temples were demolished in haste without any clearance by any senior government official in the district The temples were demolished when Alwars district collector had been transferred and his successor was yet to assume charge alleged Rathore Sticking to the Congress charge Rajasthans Food and Civil Supplies Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas asked the BJP to tender an apology to the country for allegedly demolishing the temple in a town with its municipal body headed by them Two temples were demolished during an anti-encroachment drive in Alwar districts Rajgarh dearly this week triggering an exchange of barbs on Friday between the Congress and BJP in Rajasthan Rajgarh is a BJP-run municipality in the Congress-ruled Rajasthan In a news conference here Rathore also accused the Rajasthan government of pursuing the politics of appeasement and hurting the sentiments of the majority community He said the demolition of the temples was nowhere in the proposal presented before the municipal committee board and in any case no religious place can be demolished without the permission of senior officers such as the district collector The temple was demolished in a hurry when the previous collector was relieved from duty and the new collector was yet to take the charge he alleged This action was done with a malicious intention of vengeance The incident of Alwar and the violence in Karauli are known to everyone Section 144 is being imposed on Hindu yatras in the state The way appeasement politics is being done in Rajasthan for a particular community is crystal clear Rathore said He said it seems a Talibani mindset exists in the Ashok Gehlot government in the state where cases of atrocities on women and Dalits are on the rise and the government is miserably failing in providing drinking water to the people A five-member BJP panel headed by state president Satish Poonia visited Rajgarh where two temples and some shops were demolished on Sunday While one temple was completely demolished and one partially The owners of the completely demolished temple had removed the idols The sanctum sanctorum of the partially demolished temple was stated to be intact BJP MP Sumedhanand Sarawasti who was a member of the fact-finding committee said The 300-year-old temple has been demolished the Congress government and the chief minister should publicly apologise The idols should be installed respectfully by getting the temples rebuilt he further demanded On the other hand Rajasthan minister Khachariyawas said the BJP should apologise to the country as they are spreading lies after demolishing temples in Rajgarh here the municipal body headed by them cleared the proposal to bring down the temples There is documentary evidence that Nagar Palika Board had made the proposal to this effect The BJP is conspiring to foment communal riots in the entire state by misusing social media The BJP wants to win the lost battle in Rajasthan But I will tell them that they hastened in spoiling the atmosphere as the assembly elections are due after one and a half years Khachariyawas said Former Congress MP Bhanwar Jitendra Singh and Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Tikaram Jully also reached Rajgarh to inspect the demolished temples BJPs Rajya Sabha member Kirodi Lal Meena tweeted on Saturday Former MP Bhanwar Jitendra Singh and Minister Tikaram Jully have assured the reconstruction of temples in Rajgarh but my other demands are compensation to people whose houses were demolished and to punish officials involved in this misdeed He said he had also demanded a judicial inquiry into the matter but his demands were yet to be met PTI AG AG RAX RAX

Jaipur Apr 23 PTI Customs officials at the Jaipur airport nabbed a passenger and recovered gold worth Rs 4162 lakh concealed in his rectum a spokesman said on Saturday The passenger who arrived by Air Arabia Flight from Sharjah looked suspicious from his gestures Therefore it was decided to conduct a personal search the official said During the search a paste of yellowish granules packed in three transparent polyethylene capsules and wrapped in a white polythene were found duly concealed in the rectum the official said Gold weighing 76950 gram of 9950 per cent purity valued at Rs 4162 was extracted from the paste and was seized under the provisions of the Customs Act 1962 he said adding the accused was arrested and further investigation was underway PTI AG AG CJ CJ

Jaipur Apr 19 PTI Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday expressed concern over reports of rising COVID-19 cases in some parts of the country including Delhi saying extra precautions need to be takenSharing a news report Gehlot said In some places including Delhi cases of Covid have increased in the past The positivity rate in Delhi has exceeded five per cent There is a need to take extra precautions due to the increasing cases of Covid In the last three days Rajasthan has also seen an increase in the number of positive and active cases On Tuesday 23 positive cases were reported in the state and there are 113 active casesDelhis COVID-19 positivity rate on Monday jumped to 772 per cent from 421 per cent on Sunday PTI AG AG ANB ANB

Jaipur Mar 31 PTI Free OPD and IPD services will start in all state government hospitals in Rajasthan from Friday an official said on Thursday From April 1 free OPD and IPD facilities would be started in all categories of government medical institutions in the state Health Minister Parsadi Lal Meena said A dry run will be conducted initially for a month during which the problems faced in the implementation of the new scheme will be identified and resolved Meena added The scheme is to be launched formally on May 1 2022 No fee would be charged for registration in the out-patient department OPD and in-patient department IPD in government hospitals Meena said adding medicines and tests too will be provided free of cost to the people of the state Presenting the state budget for 2022-23 last month Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had announced free treatment in IPD and OPD in the government hospitals PTI AG AG KVK RAX RAX

Jaipur Mar 30 PTI The Rajasthan government has approved nine posts for a special cell constituted to check incidents like copying and paper leaks in recruitment examinationsAccording to an official statement Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has given administrative and financial approval to nine posts for the Examination Fraud Investigation Unit anti-cheating cell formed under the special operations group of the police to prevent irregularities in competitive examinationsThe nine posts include an additional superintendent of police a police inspector and a sub-inspectorThe formation of this unit will help prevent paper leaks copying and other irregularities in various recruitment examinations in the state the statement saidThe chief minister had announced the formation of the anti-cheating cell in the state budget 2022-23 PTI AG AG KVK ANB ANB

Jaipur Mar 30 PTI A 23-year-old student of a nursing college was arrested here for allegedly posing as a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Army police said on WednesdayThe student has been identified as Amar Singh a resident of Alwars Behror He was arrested on Tuesday they saidBased on military intelligence inputs the accused was arrested in Mansarovar area He was found dressed in the Army uniform Deputy Commissioner of Police South Mridul Kachawa saidThe accused had told other students in his college that he was on a two-year study leave He also visited the Army canteen and used fake identity cards at toll tax plazas the police saidHis residence was also raided Several forged rubber stamps of the Army education officer doctor and notary public were recovered from his house they saidFurther investigation is underway they said PTI AG AG DIV DIV

Jaipur Mar 26 PTI Two brothers were killed when their car rammed into a truck moving ahead in Chittorgarh district on Saturday police said The accident occurred near Rolahera village on Chittorgarh-Bhilwara highway when a truck allegedly applied sudden brakes and the car moving behind rammed into it police said The deceased were identified as Mayank 29 and his younger brother Chitranshu 27 of Bhilwara Police said that the villagers took both of them to a hospital where they were declared brought dead PTI AG AG VN VN

Jaipur Mar 25 PTI Independent legislator from Behror assembly constituency Baljeet Yadav on Friday took to running in the Central Park here to protest against issues of unemployment and corruption Yadav came live on social media to express his feelings on these issues and announced a 12-hour run as a mark of protest He had on Thursday too announced running as protest in the state Assembly I am expressing anger against the state government I want to tell them about the pain of the youth of the state There are 23 states where youths of Rajasthan are not being given jobs Even the state government is not giving them jobs So where will the youth go Yadav said He said People are helpless due to the irregularities in recruitment exams I cannot fight with these goons so I have to express my anger Yadav said that the Vice Chancellor of Gurukul University is telling the government that infrastructure is ready whereas the entire infrastructure mentioned in the bill exists only on papers The government withdrew The Gurukul University Sikar Bill 2022 after revelations were made about the university in the Assembly Other legislators too reached the park when they heard about about Yadavs plan to run Deputy Leader of Opposition Rajendra Rathore supported the cause by participating in the run Chief Whip Mahesh Joshi sat on the tracks urging Yadav to call-off his protest PTI AG AG VN VN

New Delhi Mar 24 PTI India is on track to meet its nationally determined contributions NDCs which are compatible with a well below 2 degree Celsius scenario the Centre said on Thursday reiterating that developed nations need to take the lead in climate action including providing climate finance Responding to a query raised in the Rajya Sabha Minister of State for Environment Ashwini Kumar Choubey said climate change is a global collective action problem that has arisen mainly because of the historical emissions by developed countries Climate change is a global collective action problem Reports from various sources including the Inter governmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC highlight that challenges faced due to global warming are mainly due to cumulative historical and current greenhouse gas emissions of the developed countries he said in a written reply India is a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC its Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement Choubey said the UNFCCC notes that the emissions originating in developing countries including India will grow to meet their social and development needs Developed countries have to take the lead in mitigation and provide climate finance low-cost climate technologies and capacity building India is on track to meet its Nationally Determined Contributions which are compatible with a well-below-2C scenario Further the Prime Minister at the recent 26th session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 26 presented Indias vision to achieve carbon neutrality by 2070 India for its part abides by commitments to the UNFCCC in letter and spirit he said India with more than 17 per cent of the global population has contributed only about 4 per cent of the global cumulative greenhouse gas emissions between 1850 and 2019 the government has maintained Even though we are not part of the problem India is committed to being part of the solution and has done far more than its fair share India has progressively continued decoupling of economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions In key sectors of the economy the mitigation efforts have been undertaken with a vision of low-carbon sustainable development the minister told the House Replying to a question on whether the government has issued any notice to the big oil and gas companies and their policy makers regarding the process of making the country carbon free Choubey said Indias commitment to emission intensity reduction of the economy is an economy-wide target that encompasses various sectors including transport and energy sectors The Government stands committed to combating climate change through its several programs and schemes Government has taken a series of measures to enhance energy security and improve efficiency in use of energy for inclusive growth and sustainable development These inter alia include diversification in sources of imports promotion of alternate fuels increasing production of oil and gas substitution of energy demand improving refinery processes notification of fuel efficiency norms etc he said The cental government has been promoting the use of bio-fuels with multiple objectives of reducing import dependency generating employment providing better remuneration to farmers reduction in environment pollution etc in line with the National Policy on Biofuels 2018 he added PTI AG AG AQS AQS