Responding to speculation that Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is keen to appoint more deputies, Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot said the state can have five of them as-long-as the law and order improves. In the last year of his first tenure as chief minister, Mr Gehlot had two-deputy CM Kamla Beniwal from the influential Jat community and Banwarilal Bairwa from the Scheduled Caste.

Rajasthan Deputy CM Sachin Pilot met a seven-year-old girl who was kidnapped while she was playing outside her home and raped on Monday in Jaipur. Mr Pilot said the accused will be arrested soon. The girl, who was playing outside her house in Shastri Nagar neighbourhood, was kidnapped by a man on a motorcycle who said he needed to give her father some money.

Rahul Gandhi, who hasn't returned to the Congress headquarters after Saturday's big meet where he offered to quit, on Tuesday held back-to-back meetings at his 12, Tughlaq Lane, house in the national capital with Congress leaders including sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Apart from Priyanka Gandhi, Congress-leader said Rahul has also had separate meetings with senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala and general secretary KC Venugopal.