Accidents and Disasters

PANAJI - Two people were acquitted by a local court Monday in a case related to molestation of a nine-year-old Russian girl at Arambol beach here early this year.

NEW DELHI - A Delhi court Monday extended, by three days, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody of T.S. Darbari and Sanjay Mohindroo, two key aides of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi.

LUCKNOW - Alarmed by a spate of on-campus suicides, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur is toying with the idea of restricting round-the-clock internet access, which it says is one of the main causes of these suicides.

LONDON - A 59-year-old woman teacher at a prison in Britain has been suspended after she shot a pornographic movie of her having sex with a murderer, 29, in the jail.

CHANDIGARH - It is one of the most prosperous states of India and produces the bulk of the country's foodgrain, but Punjab may soon take the lead in a dubious field - narcotics. Police have seized hundreds of kilograms of drugs in the first seven months of the year, the highest in the country.