In a major thrust for education in Haryana's Mewat region, Rs.10.65 crore is to be spent for the development of the sector during the current financial year, an official said Saturday.

A moderate intensity earthquake hit the Andaman islands early Saturday, weather officials said. No casualties have been reported.

The possibility of lower courts working in shifts to render speedy justice and re-employment of retired judges to reduce pending cases is being discussed with the state governments by a parliamentary panel.

Breaking his silence, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Arjun Singh has said he has "no locus standi" on the issue of then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson being allowed to leave India after the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.

Police Saturday began verifying the call records of prominent industrialist Anil Nanda and his associates as part of investigations into the suspicious death of his driver, who in his dying statement accused Nanda and his aides of setting him on fire after he protested their alleged sexual exploitation of boys.

The census operations have hit a bizarre roadblock in the northeastern state of Mizoram - superstition. A section of the Christian community believe that the head count, and the alloocation of a unique identification (UID) number, would mean being "identified by the beast".

Three suspected terrorists of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) have been arrested from this West Bengal town, police said Saturday.

A pro-Maoist activist has been arrested for the sabotage that led to the Gyaneshwari Express train derailment in West Bengal last month killing 148 people, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sources said Saturday. This is the fourth arrest in the case.

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were escorting trucks into Manipur since Saturday morning to clear the economic blockade being observed by Naga student groups.

The Bihar Government has returned to Gujarat five crore rupees given to the State as part of Kosi flood relief.