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A sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) has been arrested here for hatching a conspiracy to kill his two neighbours who allegedly tried to "spoil his daughter", police said Thursday.

With waterlogging being a perennial problem in Delhi during the monsoon, this year could throw up a "muddy" spectacle with most parts of the city dug up for the "beautification and street-scaping" plans for the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games.

Doctors, who performed autopsies of the 26 security personnel killed in a Maoist ambush in Chhattisgargh Tuesday, were stunned to find that at least 10 men had their hands and legs chopped off and throats slit.

An year after the Delhi High Court passed a landmark verdict decriminalising homosexuality, gays in India can certainly breathe freer. But it's not all sunshine and roses with social prejudices still well entrenched, especially outside the big cities.

Rail traffic on the Kalka-Shimla track -- a world heritage site -- was disrupted Thursday when the engine of a train derailed in Himachal Pradesh. However, nobody was injured in the accident, an official here said.

Normal life was hit in the forested interiors of Chhattisgarh Thursday, the second day of the two-day shutdown in five states called by the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist).

A psycho-killer wanted in the rape and murder of three minor girls in Kurla suburb of north-east Mumbai was arrested Thursday, police said.

Senior Supreme Court judge Mukundakam Sharma Thursday said that although teachers in government schools get higher salaries and facilities, the standard and quality of education in such schools are deteriorating as compared to private ones.

Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa Thursday welcomed the appointment of a three-member UN panel to look into rights abuses and war crimes in Sri Lanka.