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.

Experts believe that accumulation of debris from large-scale construction and mining on riverbeds is one of the key reasons why rivers in Uttarakhand are changing their course.

The Pakistan Cricket Board has rubbished Rashid Latif’s claim that an alleged Indian bookmaker Annu Bhatt was a guest of the Board in 2005-06, terming the former captain’s accusation as “baseless and stupid”.

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.

Former European champions Celtic and AC Milan were left with work to do to reach the Champions League group stage after their play-off first leg games on Tuesday.

Picking dream XIs can be the trickiest task. Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, not always the diplomat, would, however, like to leave it well alone. And who can blame him for that? This is not an exercise a current player would like to indulge in, perhaps not only for fear of stepping on the toes of his contemporaries as much as the difficulty of comparing players across eras.

With the Opposition aggressively targeting the government on the issue of the missing files relating to coal block allocation, the top Congress leadership on Wednesday discussed a counter-strategy at its core group meeting which was told that several files have been traced and only eight remained untraced.

The Maharashtra government decided on Wednesday to promulgate an ordinance against black magic, blind faith and superstition, a day after activist Narendra Dabholkar, who was campaigning since the 1990s for such a law, was shot dead in Pune by unidentified gunmen.

India’s top doubles badminton player Jwala Gutta responded sharply to star shuttler Saina Nehwal’s comments on Indonesian great Taufik Hidayat over the base price row in the ongoing Indian Badminton League
Saina, on Wednesday, had said that Hidayat should accept that he was a retired player now and could not get a high price at the IBL auction.