A 40-year-old man from Palghar district in Maharashtra has been booked for cooking up a story of her daughter's kidnapping after a quarrel with his wife, police said on Sunday.

A 40-year-old Christian priest was arrested Sunday for allegedly sexually assaulting inmates of a boys' home here, police said.

 Another person, the main accused, in connection with the alleged lynching of a 20- year-old-man in West Bengal's Malda district, has been arrested, police said on Saturday.

Pune: In fresh trouble for Nirav Modi, who is currently lodged in a London prison, the Pune bench of the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) Saturday directed the fugitive diamond merchant and his aides to pay over Rs 7,200 crore with interest to the Punjab National Bank (PNB) and others.

Guwahati: Barely two weeks after a youth was arrested for forcing some Muslim youths to chant ''Jai Shri Ram'', four miscreants in Assam's Barpeta district thrashed three Muslim youths and forced them to chant ''Jai Shri Ram''.

New Delhi: Rejecting the Congress' allegation that it was trying to topple the Karnataka government, the BJP said Saturday that the "feud" between ruling allies Congress and JD(S) is behind the fresh political instability in the state.

New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday accused the BJP of trying to bring down its coalition government in Karnataka by "buying" MLAs and asserted that the new word for the 'aaya ram gaya ram' phenomenon is "MODI -- mischievously orchestrated defections in India".

Kolkata: A BJP activist died allegedly after being beaten up by a group of men for chanting ‘Jai Shree Ram’ in West Bengal's Nadia district, party sources said on Saturday.