Tension gripped Ajmer city and marble town of Kishangarh after Bhanwar Sinodia’s body, the son of a ruling Congress MLA Nathuram Sinodia, was found in a vehicle near Jaipur on Thursday. He was shot dead after abduction on Wednesday in Ajmer district’s Roopangarh. Mr Sinodia represents Kishangarh constituency in the state Assembly.

Even though they have performed around the world and mesmerised the audiences with their talent, when they return to their villages in the Thar desert of Rajasthan, they get upset.

The much-awaited reshuffle in the Congress drew mixed reactions in Rajasthan where the party organisation is waiting to get a new PCC chief in place of Mr C.P.

The BJP is all set to elect its leader for the Assembly in presence of party’s two Central observers on February 26 in Jaipur. The rival factions in the saffron party geared up to formulate their strategy in view of the MLAs’ meeting.

A number of Indian labourers from Rajasthan are stuck in strife-torn Libya amid unrest and violence against Col. Gaddafi while their family members requested authorities to make arrangements for their repatriation. CM Ashok Gehlot sent a letter to external affairs minister S.M. Krishna seeking a relief for the stranded labourers.

The Rajasthan ATS has completed its investigations with Swami Aseemanand, a key suspect in the Ajmer blast case, while a local court in Ajmer sent him to judicial custody till February 15. But the court sent Bharat Bhai to police custody for a week as the ATS demanded it.

A local court in Ajmer has granted permission to the CBI for interrogation of terror suspects Devendra Gupta and Lokesh Sharma in the Malegaon blast case. The court has passed this order on Tuesday while hearing a petition filed by the CBI, which sought permission.

The BJP, after months of factionalism, is slated to elect its Leader of the Opposition on February 26 in the presence of the party’s central observers in Jaipur.

With the nation remembering Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary, a group of artists commemorated a four-century-old incident of staging “Dharna Satyagarh” by poets in the princely state of Marwar.

The Dalit authors aired their views when they got an audience during the Jaipur Literature Festival and narrated their tales of joy and sorrow. “It is a beginning and is good for us.