A 16-year-old student of a government school in Vivek Vihar, east Delhi, was stabbed to death late on Tuesday night.

India is set to leapfrog to the next level of mobile technology with the government on Wednesday finally allocating the third generation (3G) spectrum to private telecom companies.

The concept by Electrolux to create vacuum cleaners from recycled plastic is geared to highlight two major problems with plastic.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for the creation of a district carved out of Amethi Lok Sabha constituency represented by Rahul Gandhi and named after dalit icon Chhatrapati Shahuji M

A major rail mishap was averted near Ezhukon by two students who frantically waved their red bags and stopped a train after noticing that the rail tracks were broken.

An empty grenade shell was found in a mail packet at the cargo area of the New Delhi IGI airport late on Tuesday evening, setting off a security scare.

A 30-year-old businessman, drunk and driving at breakneck speed rammed on to a two-wheeler killing a 48-year-old pillion rider and injuring the driver at Marine Drive early on Wednesday morning.

The authorities in Haryana have ordered an inquest into the disappearance of sculpted marble tombstones and other artefacts from the Victorian Age cemetery in Ambala district.

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for the Rs 6,000 crore NTPC-BHEL power plant while showering praises on the former chief minister, Dr Y.S.

As if declaring their assets before the Election Commission prior to contesting parliamentary elections wasn’t enough for the politicians, Union ministers now have something more to contend with.