The recent elections held to constitute the district councils in Manipur hill areas highlighted how much the local people yearn for peace and development in their State.

Having been a militants' den for a long time, Tripura's Jirania village cherishes a peaceful and normal daily life due to government efforts.

Train movement was late Wednesday suspended over a part of the South Eastern Railway in West Bengal following intelligence inputs that Maoists had assembled near the tracks in West Midnapore district for another sabotage attempt, officials said.

Four unidentified men entered a foodgrain store in north Delhi and looted over Rs.10 lakh at gunpoint Wednesday, police said.

Two Maoist rebels allegedly involved hijacking an ICICI bank delivery van and looting Rs.5 crore from it were arrested Wednesday, police said.

A 24-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a police constable, police said Wednesday.

The Delhi government Wednesday said its global image had prompted it to ask the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) to look into problems faced by the power distributing companies in the city.

Four people drowned when a boat in which they were in capsized in the Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh's Sehore district Wednesday, police said.

A devastating fire Wednesday in a wholesale shop in a Chhattisgarh town gutted cloth bales worth Rs.2.5 crore, police said. No one was injured in the incident.

The national capital will soon get more than 200 designated autorickshaw stands to prevent the three-wheelers from halting and parking at random, affecting the traffic flow, the traffic police said Wednesday.