BAHRAICH - A Nepali national involved in drug peddling was arrested here with cannabis worth over Rs.10 lakh, police said Friday.

TORONTO - After trying to smuggle drugs into Canada through cricket bats, balls, marble slabs, and mugs from India, police have now seized ephedrine hidden in a shipment of bath towel from India.

NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Friday stayed the execution of three people who were awarded death sentence in the 2000 Dharmapuri bus burning case where three students of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University were charred to death in the wake of an agitation by AIADMK activists.

NEW DELHI - A steel trader was found dead with injury marks under the Naraina flyover in west Delhi, police said Friday.

AHMEDABAD - One person was killed and three people were trapped when a five-storey newly-constructed building here collapsed Friday morning, leading to the partial collapse of two adjoining buildings also, fire officials said. Over a dozen people were injured in the accident.