Celebrations have marked the opening of India's first "elephant village" in the northern state of Rajasthan.
Later on Friday he was due to fly to Jaipur, the capital of the state of Rajasthan.
One important stop is Mansar Kheri, near the pink city of Jaipur in the desert state of Rajasthan.
The man, an Indian citizen, was held in the western state of Rajasthan near the two countries' border.
The health ministry said more than 450 cases had been reported, mostly in the northern state of Rajasthan.
From the village of Vijay Pura in the Indian state of Rajasthan, the global financial crisis seems remote.
He runs outdoor camps for asthmatics and a rainwater-conservation project in the state of Rajasthan, along the western border.
Ajmer in the western state of Rajasthan is famous for the shrine of Sufi Muslim saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti.
The Sri Nathji temple in the northwestern state of Rajasthan is normally out of bounds to members of lower castes.
The cold wave has also affected people in the western state of Rajasthan as well as parts of central India.
In the town of Alwar in the northern state of Rajasthan, there are about 300 so-called "untouchable" women working in this profession.
Seven-year-old Santosh hadn't been in her new job a week yet in Dabbi, in the western desert state of Rajasthan, when a reporter visited.
Yasin Shahabuddin, 51, and his two younger brothers are among the more prosperous residents of Pipar, a small town in India's desert state of Rajasthan.
The best-known are in the state of Rajasthan, southwest of Delhi.
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And in October 2007, a bomb attack on a famous Sufi Muslim shrine in the city of Ajmer - in the state of Rajasthan - killed two people.
He grew up in Jodhpur, in the desert state of Rajasthan, where both his parents were college professors, and was at the top of his class in high school.
Looking to the future, the state government of Rajasthan and the central government in Delhi have decided to go for cleaner solar power, even though, on present figures, the electricity it produces costs three times as much as that produced by coal.
Although no talks have been arranged, Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid will host lunch for Mr. Ashraf Saturday in Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan state, where Ajmer is located.
Residents of a remote village in India's Rajasthan state are celebrating the return of a seven-year-old girl who had accidently strayed into Pakistan.
It also seems to have been worse affected than Congress by the traditional anti-incumbency urge of Indian voters, having until recently run state-level governments in several of its northern strongholds, including Rajasthan.
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has addressed a number of public meetings in northern Rajasthan state.
Over the years Singh says his organization and the villagers of Rajasthan have revived seven rivers across the state helping more than a thousand villages.
Mr Ashraf will make a private visit to the shrine of a famous Sufi Muslim saint, in Rajasthan state.
Rajasthan, a parched state with a long history of drought-relief works, comes closer to fulfilling that promise than anywhere else, providing 68 days of work on average in the year to March 2008, according to a survey published in Frontline, an Indian newsweekly.
State elections are scheduled later this year in the central states of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan in the west and in the capital, New Delhi.
The London Business School grad is the fourth generation of the storied Birla clan, whose roots go back to 1857 in cotton trading in Rajasthan state.
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