Bhavesh Patel confesses to magistrate that he was in group that planted IEDs; unlike statement to police, confession is admissible in court.
Three minor girls, who were allegedly abducted by two youths, were rescued from Ajmer district in Rajasthan, police said today.
Turning a sand dune into a green garden might seem like a difficult task, but a septuagenarian has single-handedly achieved this and managed to plant over 27,000 trees in a village near here, earning him the sobriquet of 'Tree Man'.
A 25-year-old rape accused was beaten to death by the father and brother of the allegedly raped girl in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan.
A 50-year-old forest official was murdered allegedly by five persons after he tried to stop them from doing illegal mining in Dhabi forest range area in the district, police said today.
In an another instance of police high-handedness, a man was allegedly forced to strip before his children in a police station in Sri Ganganagar and his minor daughter was put in a lock-up after he was detained in a land dispute case.

In a shocking case of public apathy, a man in Jaipur lay on the road crying for help inside a tunnel next to the bodies of his wife and infant daughter with nobody stopping by for help after a speeding truck hit his motorcycle.
Indian security forces have found a dead falcon fitted with a small camera which has sparked alarm near the country's highly militarised border with Pakistan, an official said on Monday.
A dozen people were injured on Saturday in communal violence in Jaipur following an objectionable religious comment on social networking website Facebook, police said.
Visitors to Akbari Quila in Ajmer will get to enjoy a 45-minute sound and light show narrated by renowned lyricist Gulzar from tomorrow.
Violence broke out between members of two communities in Sanganer town near Jaipur with mobs going on the rampage torching a religious school, vandalising properties and attacking policemen prompting authorities to clamp curfew in the area today.
BJP president Rajnath Singh flagged off party leader Vasundhara Raje’s 80-day Suraj Sankalp Yatra from the famous Charbhuja temple on Thursday, with Singh urging people to make Raje the next chief minister of the desert state, Vikas Pathak reports.
A ruling Congress party MLA today climbed on a mobile tower to demand shifting of three mobile towers from Badi Sadri locality in Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan, police said.

An astrologer and social activist has turned the religious practice of offering water and milk in temples into a unique way of water conservation. Pandit Purushotam Gaur, known as Guruji, has developed water harvesting infrastructure in more than 300 temples in Rajasthan over the past 13 years.
A photographer’s intense desire for sakshaat darshan (personified sight) of Lord Shiva has led to his death along with four family members, the police said today, reports Rashpal Singh.