By Rima Saini

All this story needs is an Indiana Jones figure, and Kerala is halfway to commissioning its own action-adventure movie. Well, it has found the perfect set at least. Sacks of gold coins, rubies, emeralds, other precious stones, paintings of long-dead maharajahs and maharanis, and countless other treasures, were uncovered in an underground chamber beneath the Sri Padmanabhaswamy mandir last week, by order of the Supreme Court.

By Rumbold

The government has announced new proposals which add further restrictions on people bringing spouses and other dependents from abroad, and lengthening the amount of time which they can claim benefits.

By Reuters

Countries and groups that attack schools and hospitals will be named and shamed by the United Nations and could be liable to sanctions under a resolution passed by the Security Council on Tuesday. Perpetrators will be added to a list the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon publishes as an annex to an annual report on children and armed conflict. The list identifies those who kill, maim or rape children in armed conflicts, or recruit and use them as child soldiers.

By AFP

World leaders expressed anger and revulsion Thursday at triple bomb blasts that killed 17 people and left more than 140 injured in India’s commercial capital Mumbai. The coordinated explosions hit busy shopping and residential districts across the city, which is still emerging from the shadows of the 2008 militant attack that left 166 people dead.

By Reuters

News Corp has withdrawn its $12 billion bid to buy out the 61 percent of broadcaster BSkyB it does not already own after the government turned on Rupert Murdoch over a phone hacking scandal.

By AP

The decision to suspend more than one-third of American military aid to Pakistan could end up hurting Washington more than Islamabad as the US seeks to navigate an end to the Afghan war and defeat al Qaeda, former Pakistani officials and analysts warned Monday.