Over 110 people were killed and more than 3,000 injured today when a powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked southwest China’s Sichuan province, causing massive destruction in a region that suffered a catastrophic quake in 2008.

Finance minister P Chidambaram today refused to comment on the JPC draft report which gives him a clean chit in the 2G scam, saying that he has “never been concerned” about the allegations.

Five days after he allegedly raped a five-year-old girl here, a 22-year-old married man was arrested from his in-law’s house in Muzaffarpur in Bihar early this morning with investigators saying that it appeared that he fled the capital within an hour of committing the crime.

A Chechen-origin teenager suspected to be behind the deadly Boston bombings was today captured by the police here after a 24-hour drama that saw another suspect being killed and the city virtually shut.

The condition of the five-year-old girl, who was raped allegedly by a 22-year-old man after holding her captive here, was stable even as protests erupted in the capital today against the grisly crime.

Indian-American student Sunil Tripathi, who had been missing since mid-March, was on Friday wrongly identified on the social media websites as one of the two suspects responsible for the Boston Marath

The commissioning of the Koodankulam atomic power plant has been delayed as the nuclear regulator had found four valves to be “deficient” during a series of tests ahead of starting the reactor.

Nasa scientists have discovered two new Earth-like planets in the habitable orbit of a Sun-like star, 1,200 light-years away, which could potentially host life.

Extremely rare works by three of India’s greatest contemporary artists — Tyeb Mehta, Maqbool Fida Husain and Sayed Haider Raza — will appear on the auction circuit for the first time and are set to fetch record prices at Bonhams’ Indian and Islamic sale in London on Tuesday.

Queen Elizabeth II’s Bond girl like comic sketch for the London Olympics 2012 opening ceremony has been voted as the best moment of her 61-year reign.