In political blame game over the Muzaffarnagar communal flare-up, Samajwadi Party Wednesday held BJP responsible for it, alleging that a fake video shot outside the country was uploaded on a social networking site by a BJP MLA which sparked off the clashes in the district.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s announcement that the JD(U)’s alliance plans could be decided after October on Tuesday heightened the BJP’s anxieties about a Congress-JD(U) alliance being formed and spurred the saffron party to mount a renewed attack on Kumar on the issue of special state status.

Rafael Nadal claimed his second US Open title and 13th Grand Slam crown on Monday when he defeated world number one Novak Djokovic, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 in a lung-busting final.

India’s leading squash players Saurav Ghosal, Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinnappa will look to make a mark in the main round of the $50,000 CIMB Malaysian Open at Petaling Jaya on Wednesday.

Around 3.49 lakh first time voters in the age group of 18 to 19 will be able to exercise their franchise in assembly polls in the city slated for November.

The long-running cold war between Bihar’s ruling JD(U) and the Opposition BJP over saffron icon Narendra Modi’s proposed rally in Patna in October has flared up after the BJP was denied permission to use the entire area of the spacious Gandhi Maidan in the state capital for the rally.

The fate of the four men convicted for the “cold-blooded” gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student in December last year hangs in the balance with the trial court set to pronounce its order on the quantum of sentence on Wednesday.

Ace shooter and former Olympic Silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore today decided to take a shot at politics as he joined the BJP after taking voluntary retirement from the Indian Army.

Pakistan today said it has decided “in principle” to free Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the former deputy commander of the Afghan Taliban, to facilitate the peace process in war-torn Afghanistan.

Pakistan Tuesday said it has decided “in principle” to free Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the former deputy commander of the Afghan Taliban, to facilitate the peace process in war-torn Afghanistan.