Senior Congress leader and Union minister Beni Prasad Verma on Wednesday alleged “match-fixing” over the Samajwadi Party government’s ban on the VHP’s yatra from Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.

With the Vishwa Hindu Parishad determined to go ahead with its contentious 20-day Ayodhya yatra, differences have started emerging within the BJP. A section of party leaders feel the VHP planned the yatra after consulting Gujarat CM Narendra Modi in an attempt to polarise the UP votebank on communal lines.

In the latest case of caste-related controversy in Orissa, over a dozen of dalit students have allegedly left a government-run upper primary school for good. The students dropped out to register their protest against the removal of a dalit cook by the school management.

Troubled spinner Monty Panesar “let the England shirt down” with the unsavoury incident that sparked his exit from Sussex, captain Alistair Cook said, but insisted the bowler could revive his Test career.

Amidst din in Parliament, the JD(U), while blaming the Congress and the BJP for disruptions in the proceedings, sought smooth business in both Houses of Parliament. The JD(U) called upon the Congress and BJP to sit together and resolve the repeated disruptions of the proceedings of Parliament.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet US President Barack Obama at the White House on September 27, with India’s national security adviser Shivshankar Menon saying the groundwork had been done for a “very successful visit” to boost trade and defence ties.

The Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) examination conducted by Barkatullah University in the state capital has come under cloud and the university’s credibility is at rock bottom with the unearthing of a fake examination scam and the arrest of its kingpin Sajjan Singh Parmar and a dentist, Devvrat Nayak, who were both produced in court on Wednesday and sent to police remand.

Australia coach Darren Lehmann has accused England’s Stuart Broad of “blatant cheating” and urged fans in Australia to make sure the all-rounder “cries and goes home” during the return Ashes series.

Eight of 10 former ministers from the BJP in Bihar are set to begin looking for new accommodation for themselves as the state’s Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) government on Wednesday asked them to vacate their ministerial bungalows in Patna.

Bradley Manning, the soldier convicted of the biggest breach of classified data in US history by providing files to WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday.