Birthday ride goes wrong, student killed in Delhi SUV accident

A 19-year-old Delhi University student died and his four friends were injured after their speeding SUV crashed into a guardrail, which pierced through the vehicle, near Rajghat in north Delhi early......

UP girl gang-raped in U'khand Roadways bus; driver among 5 held

The police in Dehradun on Sunday arrested five people in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a teenage girl in a Uttarakhand government bus after it arrived at the busstand the state capital......

Cops gear up for mega farmers' meet at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan

Due to a 'Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat' convened by farmers at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on Thursday, the Delhi Police has beefed up security and deployed heavy force for checking vehicles,......

5,000 farmers allowed to gather at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan

Delhi Police has given permission to the farmers to hold their 'Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat' with the condition of gathering not exceeding to 5,000, no tractor trolleys, no march at the Ramlila......

Accidents? Govt to spend Rs 11K crore for better roads

  Gadkari urged people to adhere to traffic rules and expressed hope that Parliament will soon pass the Road Transport and Safety Bill. Concerned over alarmingly high number of road accidents......

Govt plans to mop up Rs 6K cr from land auctions

Following the success of the Rs 40.5-billion (Rs 4,050 crore) Wadala land deal in central Mumbai, at least three government agencies are planning to sell plots worth at least Rs 60 billion (Rs......

Accountability is what India lacks the most

It may be overstating the obvious but things just cannot improve unless there is a sense of urgency to replace the most visible chalta hai attitude in India. In the name of democracy -the greatest......

Is the Delhi Metro a costly mistake?

The task set out for Ravinder Nath Joshi was not an easy one. As finance head of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, he had to shell out Rs 17 lakh (Rs 1.7 million) for every metre that the rail......