SILIGURI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has decided to withdraw the ``indefinite'' bandh in Darjeeling from Tuesday following assurances of an inquiry into alleged ``police atrocities'' on a party member's family, party sources said.

The party decided to lift the bandh from Tuesday after they were assured of an inquiry into alleged ``police atrocities'' by Superintendent of Police Vivek Sahay. Normal life was affected in the hill station since this morning, following the bandh in protest against the arrest of a party member Naren Rai and alleged police atrocities on Rai's family members during his arrest on August 21.

India to be `guineaworm free' this year

NEW DELHI: After small pox, guineaworm will soon become the second disease to be eradicated from India, which has not reported any case of the water-borne infection for the past three years.

India will submit its claim for certification of eradication to the World Health Organisation (WHO) andhopes to be declared guineaworm free by the end of this year, according to an official release here.

A country is certified as having eradicated a disease by international authorities if no case is reported for three consecutive years. The last case of guineaworm was reported from Jodhpur district of Rajasthan in July 1996.

Another haul of explosives at Delhi

NEW DELHI: In yet another haul of explosives, Delhi police recovered three kgs of RDX, three hand grenades, an AK-47 rifle with 180 rounds from a village in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, police said today.

The recoveries were made yesterday from Sakauti village, five kms from Gangoh-Baroli road, by a team of city police's crime branch. The explosives and arms were found buried in the ground adjacent to a house, they said.

Maneater kills teenage girl

GOPESHWAR (CHAMOLI): A maneating tiger, hiding in anticipation, snatched a 12-year-old girl from her mother as they came out of their house and fled with the girl in theGopeshwar district of Uttar Pradesh, police said, adding her body was later found some distance away.

The tiger, awaiting in bushes nearby the house, attacked the girl yesterday in the fourth such incident in the area in recent months, they said. The incident took place near a village hut, about 27 km from Gopeshwar district headquarters, police said and added the residents in the area have demanded that the tiger be shot.

Bomb recovered from local train

DIAMOND HARBOUR (WB): Police arrested two antisocials from a train compartment and recovered 23 bombs from them today. Police said the two had boarded the Diamond Harbour-bound local train from Netra station in Sealdah South section.

The miscreants, who were carrying the bombs, started abusing some policemen after being challenged. Police was conducting raid in the train in search of explosives.

MCC men kill two of a family

DALTONGANJ: Armed activists of the banned Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) killed a sarpanch of a villagepanchayat and his nephew at Hurdi village in Palamu district last night, police said today. A manhunt has been launched to arrest the killers.