BEIJING - A total of 113,000 officials were punished in China for corruption from January to November this year, authorities said as they admitted that the problem is "still very serious".
SANGRUR - An inmate of the Sangrur district jail committed suicide by hanging himself from the grills of the window of his barrack, police said Thursday.
RAIPUR - A senior police officer in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region said Thursday that he apologised to tribals for misbehaviour and loot carried out by his subordinates, and even distributed money to the villagers to compensate them.
GURGAON - Citibank manager Shivraj Puri, accused of cheating investors of Rs.300 crore, surrendered before police and was taken into custody Thursday, almost two days after one of India's biggest banking frauds earlier estimated to be worth Rs.100 crore came to light, officials said.
KOLKATA - Four children were killed and 70 shanties were destroyed early Thursday after a fire, lit to keep people warm, spread through a slum in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, officials said.
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