New Delhi, April 17 : A 7-year-old Chinese girl dialled a police hotline 700 times during in one month, thinking that it was fun to dial 110 and hear police talk.

Cops in Weng''an county, Guizhou province, revealed that the calls came from a mobile phone.

The police also revealed that the dialler uttered only a few soft words, reports the China Daily.

The newspaper report says that the little girl’s parents were away at work at the time, and that she lives with her grandparents.

She used her father’s mobile phone to dial the number.

New Delhi, Apr 17 : Shannoo Khan, who had slipped into coma after she was hit by her teacher and made to stand in the sun for over two hours, died at a hospital here on Friday.

Shannoo was undergoing treatment for “ventilatory failure” in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Lok Nayak Hospital.

She was a student of Class two at the ND Primary School in Narela, North Delhi.

New Delhi - At least 12 workers were washed away when a dam that was under construction collapsed in India's north-eastern state of Sikkim, a news report said Friday.

The Rang Po dam collapsed Thursday night in eastern Sikkim and efforts were being made to retrieve the bodies from a tunnel downstream, police officials told the PTI news agency.

The small dam was being built by a private company for storing water for hydropower generation at a project nearby.

New Delhi, Apr. 17 : The Congress party on Friday decided to field Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) Chief J P Agrawal from Northeast Delhi and Sajjan Kumar's brother Ramesh Kumar from South Delhi constituency respectively.

Ramesh Kumar will replace Sajjan Kumar and Agrawal will replace Jagdish Tytler in two Lok Sabha seats.

The Congress withdrew Tytler and Kumar from contesting the polls in the wake of a shoe-throwing episode related to their exoneration in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots on April 9.

New Delhi, Apr 17 (ANI): Indian daily newspapers projected the first phase of 15th Lok Sabha elections as by and large ''peaceful'' as large number voters came out to cast their votes despite of naxal threat and the fear of communal violence.

The first phase of polling witnessed the killing of people in violent incidents at 86 polling stations, mostly in the Naxalite affected areas of Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra.

New Delhi, Apr 17 : President Pratibha Patil on Friday issued the notification for the fifth and last phase of Lok Sabha elections.

In this phase, polling will be held in two seats in Jammu and Kashmir, nine seats in Punjab, four seats in Himachal Pradesh, eleven in West Bengal, five in Uttarakhand, 39 in Tamilnadu, 14 in UP and one each in Puducherry and Chandigarh.

The last date for filing nomination is April 24 and scrutiny will take place on April 25.

The election will be held on May 13.