TEHRAN - A US citizen has been arrested in Iran on suspicion of spying, the government-run daily Iran reported Thursday.

LUCKNOW - Rail traffic was disrupted on the busy Delhi-Howrah route after a high-tension wire snapped and fell on the overhead power cable in Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh Thursday, an official said.

RANCHI - Nine people, including four women and three children, were killed in two incidents in Gumla district in Jharkhand, police said Thursday.

DHAKA - Bangladesh's biggest trial to date has begun with a court admitting cases against over 800 rebel troopers of the country's border guard who had killed 74 people in a mutiny they staged in February 2009.

KATHMANDU - Embroiled in a manufacturing row since last month and now also under probe for revenue discrepancies, Indian multinational Dabur India's independent group company Dabur Nepal has paid an NRS50 million security deposit and admitted to packaging errors, Nepal's official watchdog said.