East India Youth was glad to break free from the constraints of conventional guitar bands, writes Ed Power.

Following on from its disastrous mapping problems with its iPhone5 product in 2012, industry rumours are rife of Apple bidding to take over Dutch satnav company TomTom.

Police in eastern India are investigating reports that villagers protesting against a noisy stone-crushing factory burned to death its three owners and four employees, authorities said today.

A wild bear was battered to death by villagers in east India after it mauled seven people, including a child.

THE coach of a six-year-old Indian boy, who ran a marathon last year in an attempt to set a world record, was arrested yesterday and charged with torturing the boy, police said.

Maoist guerrillas ambushed a police van today and killed 18 people, mostly police officers, in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, officials said.