The increased salary and allowances of ministers will cost the exchequer Rs 2.10 crore every year, and that of legislative officers and members, Rs 29.36 crore per annum, according to the financial memorandums of the two bills. read more

Rajasthan’s Congress leaders see this as an opportunity to recoup lost ground in state after the washout in the Lok Sabha elections where the party did not win even one seat. read more

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot refused to comment on the Congress Working Committee (CWC) decision on appointing a new chief, following the stepping down of Rahul Gandhi, who made his resignation letter public last month, read more

Several top Congress leaders, including Sonia Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Ahmed Patel and chief ministers Ashok Gehlot and Kamal Nath, paid their last respects to Dikshit at the Congress office. read more

Rajasthan has followed on the footsteps of Bihar and declared Super 30 tax-free in the state. The Hrithik Roshan films tells the story of Bihar math wizard Anand Kumar and his initiative, Super 30. read more

Expressing concern over incidents of mob lynching in Rajasthan, CM Gehlot said, “Incidents like mob lynching disturb all...someone is killed because of a misunderstanding, which is very disturbing. Religion should be kept out of this.” read more

Rahul Gandhi resignation: The day-long protest in the lawns of the Congress headquarters in Delhi also saw a party worker from Delhi climbing a tree to attempt suicide in a bid to persuade Gandhi to withdraw his resignation offer. read more

In a series of tweets, Rajasthan chief minister Gehlot said all chief ministers of the Congress-ruled states have said that they own up the responsibility for the Lok Sabha poll debacle. read more

The chief ministers discussed the Congress’s poor performances in the five states and told Gandhi that the BJP’s key nationalism push “misled” the voters. read more

On Monday, Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh, Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel and Pudducherry CM V Narayansamy will meet Gandhi at his house persuade him to stay. read more

Gehlot also said his government would see if the investigation had been done with predetermined intentions by the previous Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) administration. read more

The chief minister’s tweet comes a day after it was reported that Pehlu Khan, who was lynched to death in 2017 allegedly by cow vigilantes, was charge-sheeted for smuggling cattle. read more

Pehlu Khan was thrashed by self-styled cow vigilantes, who accused him of smuggling cattle, on April 1, 2017 near Behror in Alwar. read more

While the police chargesheeted Khan’s sons Irsad (25) and Arif (22) under sections 5, 8 and 9, charges have been framed against the deceased under section 6 of the Rajasthan Bovine Animal (Prohibition of Slaughter and Regulation of Temporary Migration... read more

The decision of not disinvesting the two thermal plants has been taken in view of remarkable improvement in their operational working capacity and financial situation, said a note from the chief minister’s office . read more