Three persons were arrested for allegedly raping a 19-year-old girl at an isolated locality in Nashik, police said on Friday.

The Rajasthan unit of BJP on Thursday launched its Suraj Sankalp Yatra, aimed at garnering support among the masses for Assembly elections lined up in the state later this year.

Students studying in fifth and ninth standard across Goa schools will be provided with e-notepads from the first week of June this year, the State Legislative Assembly was informed on Thursday.

At least seven Maoists were gunned down in a fierce gun battle with security forces in Nargunda-Bhatpar tribal area of Gadchiroli district on Thursday morning, a police official said.

Five persons, including three women, on Wednesday set themselves ablaze in Rajkot Municipal Corporation(RMC) office to protest the civic body's alleged demolition drive, police said.

BJP President Rajnath Singh will flag off the 'Suraj Sankalp Yatra', aimed at seeking public mandate in the upcoming Rajasthan Assembly polls, from Charbhujaji temple in Udaipur division on April 4.

Gujarat government on Tuesday introduced a bill in the Gujarat Assembly which curtails the 'primacy' of the Chief Justice of the state High Court and the Governor in the matter of appointment of the Lokayukta.

Opposition Congress in protest of the Gujarat State Service Commission Bill 2013 staged a walk out from the Assembly, saying it would lead to privatization of primary and secondary education in the state.

Facing flak for "failure" of police to make headway in the probe of alleged rape and murder of three minor sisters at Murmadi in Bhandara district, Maharashtra government on Monday announced that case would be handed over to CBI.

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.