Accidents and Disasters

TORONTO - Canadian police have made the biggest date rape drug seizure in the country's history with the arrest of five Chinese smugglers.

MUMBAI - The Maharashtra government carried out simultaneous raids on oil and milk adulterators and the sand mafia across the state Thursday, two days after Nashik Additional Collector Yeshwant Sonawane was allegedly burnt alive by petrol robbers, an official said.

JAUNPUR - A school principal here set herself afire outside the home of the school manager who she claimed had been sexually harassing her, police said Thursday. The woman's condition was described as "extremly serious".

MIRCHPUR - Nearly a dozen Dalit families have left this village in the last 15 days as last year's violence in Mirchpur has come back to haunt them. It was here that a 70-year-old and his physically-challenged daughter were killed in an attack by the dominant Jat community.

NEW YORK - The 22-year-old man, accused of shooting US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffordsm, studied about several assassins and legal consequences on internet before opening fire at a supermarket in Arizona, an official has said.