Aizawl, May 13 - The death toll in Saturday's landslide here rose to 17 today, as Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla announced setting up of an inquiry commission to probe the circumstances leading to the disaster. Aizawl SP (Traffic) Lallianmawia said four bodies were recovered since last night, while two more bodies were trapped under concrete slabs in such a way that it was difficult retrieve them.

Rohtak (Har), May 13 - An uneasy calm prevailed in Karontha village here with protesters blocking traffic placing the body of one of the killed in Sunday's clash on a road as Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today ordered a magisterial probe into the violence. The Arya Samaj activists placed the body of 40-year-old Promila on Rohtak-Jhajjar road near Satlok Ashram and refused to disperse till their leaders, arrested in connection with the yesterday's clash, were released.

New Delhi, May 13 - Concerned over factionalism in its Kerala unit, CPI(M) has set up a group comprising its top leaders to look into it while making it clear that there was "no change" in the status of veteran leader V S Achuthanandan as the Leader of Opposition in the state assembly. The party's Central Committee, which met here for two days, also approved disciplinary action taken by the state unit against four party members in Kerala, most of them close to Achuthanandan.

Patna, May 13 - Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said he will wait for the Centre's decision on granting special category to Bihar, despite ally BJP terming the government's proposal of forming a panel for deciding backwardness of states as an "illusory". "The Centre has its own way of approaching an issue so what is the harm in waiting for good result," Kumar told reporters emerging from 'Janata Ke Darbar mein Mukhyamantri' programme at his residence.

Bangalore, May 13 - Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said Ministers would be inducted into his Cabinet by Friday even as he acknowledged that it's a difficult exercise. Addressing a press conference after the maiden Cabinet meeting, minutes after he was sworn in Chief Minister, he said he would be leaving for New Delhi tomorrow or the day after to hold discussions with Congress President Sonia Gandhi in this regard.

Aizawl, May 13 - With the recovery of two more bodies since last night, 13 bodies have been found from the debris following a landslide which swept away an abandoned government building and nine houses in the northern part of Aizawl on May 11. Four bodies were feared to be still trapped under the debris, Aizawl SP (Traffic) Lallianmawia said. "Some parts of the bodies are visible but it will take time to dig them out due to the steep terrain and it will be extremely difficult to dig the concrete slabs over the bodies", he said.

Jammu, May 13 - The Jammu and Kashmir government has said that steps have been initiated to address the demands of the family of Indian national Chamel Singh, who died in a Pakistan prison, seeking compensation and the status of a martyr for the deceased.

Jamshedpur, May 13 - An encounter was on between security personnel and Maoists in a forest in Seraikela-Kharswan district of Jharkhand. Superintendent of Police Upendra Kumar said the encounter was continuing at a place between Kalerango and Chatnibeda villages under naxal-affected Kuchai police station.

Chennai, May 13 - Rejecting a CPI-M charge that police ransacked its office in Thakkalai in Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said it was the party activists who attacked the police personnel when they went to arrest some persons in connection with a complaint. She told that assembly that three CPI-M activists have been arrested in connection with the assault on police personnel on April 5 last.

Kancheepuram (TN), May 13 - Three more PMK members, arrested in connection with recent violence targeting public transport vehicles, have been booked under the National Security Act. President of the Dhamal Panchayat Manimaran (50) Ilango (31) and Mari (29), arrested along with nine others for allegedly setting afire a bus at the village on April 30, were detained under the NSA yesterday, police said.