Chandigarh,  The suspect in the kidnapping and murders of a Punjab-origin Sikh family of four, including an eight-month-old infant, in California had worked for the victims' trucking business and had a longstanding feud with them, police said.

"This (Thursday) evening, Jesus Manuel Salgado, the

Washington,  Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva said there is a "fundamental shift" in the global economy, urging countries to bring down inflation, put in place responsible fiscal policy, and jointly support emerging market and developing economies.

Colombo,  Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the country's Auditor General to investigate the reasons for the ongoing economic crisis through a petition filed against former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his two brothers -- Mahinda and Basil Rajapaksa.

Granting leave to proceed with t

Chennai,  The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted a raid on the premises of a Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) functionary on Friday for reportedly having links with the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

A team of NIA raided the residence of Vigneswaran (27) at Sivaganga.

Dakshina Kannada, (Karnataka)   A local court on Friday sentenced a youth to 15 years of imprisonment for sexually assaulting a minor girl and video graphing the crime in this district of the state.

The verdict was passed by Dakshina Kannada District and Sessions Court and Fast Track Special Court -

Varanasi,  The Varanasi police have arrested two cyber criminals on charges of cyber bullying.

Commissioner of police A. Satish Ganesh said that the two were extorting money by blackmailing girl students after making their obscene video through WhatsApp.

The cyber cell police nabbed Chandr

Kolkata,  The CBI has filed a fresh charge sheet of 35 pages in the multi-crore cattle smuggling scam case, wherein the central agency has named Trinamool Congress strongman and the party's Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal as the direct recipient of the proceeds of the scam.

The Central Bur

Thiruvananthapuram,  Palliyodu village in the capital city outskirts is in news since Friday morning as a man, a contractor by profession, is perched atop a tall coconut tree and threatening to jump down if he does not get his dues.

He is sitting on the coconut tree opposite a house, which he built as a

Chennai, Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has emerged as the favourite for the party's presidential poll among the cadres in Tamil Nadu after a majority shunned a meeting called by fellow contestant Shashi Tharoor.

Of the 710 voters in the Congress electoral college from Tamil Nadu, a handful att