Reported By Rajan Mahan

• Minutes after her birth, girl abandoned in Jaipur hospital

  Minutes after her birth, a baby girl was abandoned by a couple in a hospital in Jaipur. According to the hospital, the couple left the baby and waited around to see if the staff would pick her up.

• 12-year-old 'boy wonder' cracks IIT-JEE

  Dressed in a bright T-shirt and shorts, at first glance, Satyam Kumar looks like any other ordinary 12-year-old, but his achievement of cracking the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) entrance exam at this tender age is anything but ordinary.

• Will yatra rift in Rajasthan BJP provoke Raje-Gadkari face-off?

  The crisis in Rajasthan unit of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) continues. While resignations of Vasundhara Raje loyalists are pouring in - over 50 MLAs have now resigned in support of Ms Raje - the BJP high command is trying to downplay the rift that erupted over a 28-day-long Lok Jagran Yatra planned by RSS-backed leader Gulab Chand Kataria.

• Yatra rift ignites full-scale war in Rajasthan BJP

  The rift within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Rajasthan has intensified. A day after Vasundhara Raje threatened to quit the party over a proposed yatra by Gulab Chand Kataria, a Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh-backed (RSS) leader, over 40 of her loyalists and BJP MLAs submitted their resignations today.

• Crisis in Rajasthan BJP; Raje threatens to quit, Kataria calls off yatra

  The BJP's infighting in Rajasthan is once again out in the open - this time over a proposed yatra by a senior RSS-backed leader of the party, Gulab Chand Kataria. On Saturday evening, in a meeting of the state core committee to decide whether Mr Kataria should go ahead with his yatra, the rift within became so severe that Vasundhara Raje came out o...

• Rajasthan teen defies parents and rejects child marriage

  Prem Saini looks and behaves like any other teenager - she enjoys music and seeing movies. But while most teen rebellion centres around skipping a curfew, or bunking a class, this 17-year-old has fought the battle of a lifetime.

• Former BJP minister sent to police custody for fake encounter

  A former minister and the BJP's chief whip in the Rajasthan Assembly, Rajendra Rathore has been remanded to police custody till April 10. Mr Rathore was arrested earlier in the day in a case of a fake encounter. Dara Singh, a known felon, was shot dead in a police encounter in October 2006 and his family alleged that the encounter had been staged ...

• Baby girl lies unwanted as two families battle over a new-born boy; court steps in

  The Rajasthan High Court has taken suo moto cognizance of the shocking case of a baby girl who has been abandoned in Jodhpur's Umaid Hospital. The court has termed this a ''serious incident'' and a terrible example of gender bias.

• Jodhpur: Girl abandoned in battle to get baby boy

  A seven-day-old healthy baby girl has been waiting in a Jodhpur Hospital to go home. Only no one wants her. Two sets of parents are squabbling instead to claim a baby boy born at the same time. A DNA test will now settle whose child she is.