Videos showing hundreds of dead cows dumped openly near Jaisalmer triggered outrage, forcing authorities to seek reports and issue notices to the contractor concerned.
The Rajasthan High Court has imposed an interim stay on the cutting of trees in the sacred forest grove along the Baiya village in the Fatehgarh region of Jaisalmer district.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Dr Mohan Bhagwat exhorted people to maintain unity among all communities, but in a peculiar philosophical and spiritual manner.
The LCH took off at around 10:15 am from the Jaisalmer Indian Air Force (IAF) station with the proud Group Captain NS Bahuwa flying the Supreme Commander Commander of the Armed Forces in the historic sortie that lasted for around 25 minute.
Murmu, the Supreme Commander of India's Armed Forces, would board the indigenous double-engine helicopter made by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited for her historic flight, which will make her the first Indian President to fly in the Light Combat Helicopter, the Sukhoi Su-30 and the Rafale fighter jets.
Mahendra Prasad, a contractual manager of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Guest House near Chandan Field Firing Range in Jaisalmer, was arrested on Tuesday by Rajasthan's CID Intelligence on charges of spying for the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI and sending confidential and strategic information of the country across the border to Pakistan.
Despite safety drills in Rajasthan in the aftermath of the tragic Piplodi school ceiling collapse, another mishap in a Jaisalmer school left a student dead and a teacher seriously injured on Monday.
The Intelligence wing of the Rajasthan and other border security agencies have nabbed a state government employee in the bordering Jaisalmer district, reportedly for "suspicious activities and links with Pakistan".
Young wildlife conservationist Radheshyam Pemani, a forest department employee and their two associates were killed in a road accident in the Lathi region of Jaisalmer district in Rajasthan late Friday night.
Within just three and a half hours of the ceasefire announcement, Pakistan violated the agreement and launched another air strike targeting Pokaran in Jaisalmer on Saturday night.
