TORONTO - Canada, which has the highest per capita rate of immigration in the world, has unearthed one of the biggest immigration rackets with the arrest of a consultant in Quebec.

KOLKATA - Three people, among them a woman, were killed and many others were injured in gunfire near the Maoist stronghold of Lalgarh in West Bengal's West Midnapore district Friday, police said.

LUCKNOW - A Class 12 student in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri town was killed over a love affair with his school teacher, police said Friday, adding the teacher's mother has been taken into custody for her alleged involvement in the killing.

TEHRAN - Iran has denied reports that it arrested an American woman on espionage charges, a media report said.

GHAZIABAD - A special CBI court here adjourned hearing in the Aarushi murder case till Jan 21 and asked the probe agency to provide all documents, including its closure report, to the victim's parents even as the CBI said her father Rajesh Talwar had no "locus standi" to argue.