New Delhi  - An 11-year-old girl died in New Delhi Friday after being tortured by her schoolteacher apparently for not doing her homework, news reports and officials said.

Shanno Khan fell unconscious soon after being punished at the government-run school in the Bawana area in Delhi on Wednesday and was admitted at a hospital.

Parents of the class-two student alleged that she slipped into a coma after her teacher banged her head and made her stand out in the sun for two hours.

New Delhi, Apr. 17 : The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Friday condemned the torture of 11-year-old Shanno Khan by her schoolteacher. Khan was in coma for over 24 hours, and died in hospital this afternoon.

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.