CUIABA: Jackson Martinez scored twice as Colombia beat Japan 4-1 to end World Cup Group C with three straight wins and send the Asian champions packing from the tournament with just a single point.

NEW DELHI: Faced with all-round protests, the Modi government is considering recalibrating suburban railway fares in Mumbai and elsewhere in order to stagger the burden of last week's massive hike over phases instead of heaping all of it on the commuter in one go.

CHENNAI: Sleuths of CID's special investigation division (SID) are working on a detailed plan to locate and dismantle terror group Al Umma's sleeper cells in the state. Investigators will plant moles to gather intelligence on the activities of suspected members of the outfit in Tamil Nadu, sources said.

NEW DELHI: Probing veracity of allegations in the sensational gangrape-cum-murders in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun district last month, the Central Bureau of Investigation will conduct lie detector tests on the fathers of two cousins who were allegedly raped and then hanged on a tree.

 NEW DELHI: For Narendra Modi and for his Cabinet colleague Nitin Gadkari, one of the concerns seems to be the faster restoration of road network in disaster-hit Uttarakhand. Sources said during the presentation made by road secretary.

TRICHY: A 17-year-old girl was found raped and murdered at Tichampatti in Karur district of Tamil Nadu on Monday night, police said.

BAGHDAD: Sunni militants on Sunday captured two border crossings, one along the frontier with Jordan and the other with Syria, security and military officials said, as they pressed on with their offensive in one of Iraq's most restive regions.

 JERUSALEM: The Israeli military carried out airstrikes on a number of military targets inside Syria, including the military headquarters, in response to a cross-border attack that left an Israeli teenager dead, authorities said.

The pope excommunicated the mafia on Saturday, blasting a group that is thought to be the most powerful organized crime group in the world. It is the most severe condemnation of the mafia by a pope for two decades, after criticism over twenty years ago triggered revenge attacks in Italy.

NEW DELHI: The Maharaja must be replaced by the aam admi as the mascot of Indian aviation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is learnt to have conveyed this to aviation minister P Ashok Gajapathi Raju when the latter briefed him about the critical condition of the debt-laden sector on Saturday.