Singapore - A final year student of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) stabbed a lecturer Monday morning and then jumped off a building to his death, NTU said in a statement.

The professor is in stable condition. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he received medical treatment for cuts sustained in the attack.

The student of NTU's electrical and electronic engineering school was pronounced dead after his body had been found at the foot of the seven-storey university building.

Manila  - Two soldiers were killed in a clash with Muslim separatist rebels in the strife-torn southern Philippines, a military spokesman said Monday.

Lieutenant Colonel Ernesto Torres said the fighting erupted Sunday when government troops encountered an undetermined number of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels in Datu Piang town in Maguindanao province, 930 kilometres south of Manila.

Soon, wife and son end life by consuming poison

Karsan Suva, a police constable with Porbandar Local Crime Branch (LCB), ended his life by shooting self with his service revolver. His wife and his younger son died too after consuming poison on Sunday morning.

However, his elder son who too consumed poison was rushed to hospital and was safe, sources say. Suva shot himself in the morning when he was alone at his residence at Madhav Park in Porbandar.

His elder daughter came to know about it when she went into his room to call him for lunch. The police were informed and his body was rushed for post mortem.

Zamboanga City, Philippines  - A suspended provincial jail warden was shot dead Monday in a southern Philippine island, where Muslim militants are holding captive three staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), police said.

Jajulie Jupakkal was attacked in Jolo town on Jolo island, 1,000 kilometres south of Manila, according to Senior Superintendent Julasirim Kasim, a provincial police chief.

Kasim said Jupakkal suffered multiple gunshot wounds and died on the spot.

Ten cellphones have been recovered from Vadodara jail in February alone

The authorities of different jails in the state, including the Vadodara central jail, are at their wit's end. Despite their vigilance and strict security measures, prisoners continue to find new ways to smuggle mobile phones into the prisons. The authorities of Vadodara central jail seized or recovered more than 10 cellphones in the month of February alone.

Exasperated with the situation, the state's prison authorities have announced that jail officials who seize mobile phones from prisoners would be awarded and officially felicitated.