Arsene Wenger admits vulnerable Arsenal must show some fight to avoid more misery in Wednesday’s crucial Champions League play-off first leg against Fenerbahce in Istanbul.

The city came to a standstill after heavy rain on Tuesday afternoon. The roads were flooded and subsequently huge traffic jams brought trouble to Delhiites after heavy rain, thunderstorms and lightening hit the city during the day.

Warning that communal forces could divide society, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said these needed to be defeated in the elections. His remarks could be seen as directed at BJP’s face in the coming Lok Sabha elections and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi.

The widows in Varanasi, usually shunned on auspicious occasions, celebrated the festival of Raksha Bandhan on Tuesday by tying rakhi on the wrist of social reformer Bindeshwari Pathak, who is working for their upliftment.
The widows gathered at the Nepali Ashram on the banks of the Ganga river to celebrate the festival in presence of seers and Sanskrit scholars.

There seems no end to the woes of the India team at the second Youth Asian Games in Nanjing. Barely days after 17 track and field athletes were sent home because they were overage, three weightlifters were disqualified for the same reason.

The relentless furore in both Houses of Parliament on Tuesday over the missing files on coal block allocations scuttled the government’s attempt to push through the UPA’s ambitious National Food Security Bill in the Lok Sabha. The bill is now expected to be taken up in the Lower House only on Thursday.

India has raised the issue of Chinese incursions across the LAC and the need for a separate mechanism for water issues during the fifth India-China Strategic Dialogue held here on Tuesday.

A Facebook friend allegedly raped a Jaipur-based girl in Kota on Sunday night. The accused, Manish Saini, who is a software engineer, raped the victim and later handed her over to his friend to rape her. The police in Kota launched a manhunt to arrest Manish and his friend Nandkishore, an engineer student.

Manuel Pellegrini’s Manchester City revolution got off to the perfect start as 10-man Newcastle were crushed 4-0 at Eastlands on Monday.

Top Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative and “bomb expert” Abdul Karim Tnnda, who was produced in a magistrate’s court on Tuesday, was remanded to a further four days in police custody.