SRINAGAR - Two girls were injured when separatist guerrillas attacked their house in Baramulla district of north Kashmir late Tuesday night, police said.

NEW DELHI - Paving the way for the trial to begin, a Delhi court Tuesday formally slapped charges against Shahzad Ahmed, a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist, arrested in south Delhi's Batla House shootout in which a Delhi Police inspector was killed in 2008.

NONGPOH - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) would soon take custody of National Democratic Front of Bodoland's (NDFB) cadre Mathuram Brahma alias Mudoi, the prime accused in several bombings and killings in Assam, Meghalaya Police said Tuesday.

PATNA - Hundreds of students of a school in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district have appealed to the Maoists and the district administration to help them resume classes which were stopped after the rebels beat up two teachers earlier this month.

PATNA - Suspected Maoists blew up a state-run school in Bihar's Gaya district at night, leaving it badly damaged, police said Tuesday.