Social activist and Padma Shri awardee Bunker Roy, founder of Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, has died at 81. He was known for empowering rural women through solar technology and skill development.
Union Minister Pralhad Joshi and Rajasthan CM Bhajanlal Sharma flagged off the Run for Unity in Jaipur to mark Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's 151st birth anniversary. The CM highlighted recruitment, employment and sports initiatives for young people.
Six people, including five members of a family, died after their car collided with a truck in Churu, Rajasthan. A nine-month-old girl was critically injured while the family was travelling to Gurugram for a mundan ceremony.
Rescue teams recovered the bodies of four youths from the Kotri canal in Kota on Wednesday morning, after a boat capsized during Durga idol immersion on Tuesday evening.
Four people went missing after a boat carrying seven people capsized during Durga idol immersion near Canal Road in Kota. Rescue teams and professional divers are conducting a search operation.
Three workers were seriously injured and two went missing after a fire broke out at a factory in Gwar village, Pali district. Rescue teams are searching for the missing workers.
Eight people, including the driver, were killed when a Tempo Traveller fell around 15 feet from a culvert on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Kota. Seventeen others were injured.
Congress candidate Vinita Poonia won the Khatushyamji Municipality Chairperson election by one vote after the Rajasthan High Court ordered counting of 19 votes.
