Three Bihar policemen have been punished by the department in the past three days for gross misconduct. While one sub-inspector was on Saturday forced into compulsory retirement for shielding a suspected dealer of explosives, two other sub-inspectors were suspended for illegally detaining a man for 20 days.

Proof and Musical Note pleased when the horses were exercised at Malakpet Race Course here on Saturday.

Afghan officials say an apparent NATO airstrike has killed 15 people, nine of them civilians, including women and children in an eastern province where the Taliban are strong. NATO, however, says 10 insurgents were killed.

Six people, including a local journalist, were killed in fresh clashes between members of two communities in the Kanwal area of Muzaffarnagar district on Saturday. Over two dozen have reportedly been injured in the violence.

Usain Bolt signed off another season where he dominated men’s sprinting with victory in the 100m in the season-ending Diamond League meet in Brussels on Friday.

In a bid to woo the Muslim electorate in Rajasthan, the BJP has directed its community leaders to galvanise the community members for the Suraj rally to be addressed by Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on September 10 in Jaipur. The minority cell of the party is planning to invite Mr Modi to pay obeisance at the dargah of sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer.

Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand’s fast to save the Ganga has now entered its 87th day. The Swami, earlier known as Prof. G.D. Agarwal heading the department of civil and environmental engineering at IIT Kanpur, is on a fast-unto-death at Matri Sadan ashram in Haridwar to press for his demand for the scrapping of all hydro projects on the Bhagirathi, Alaknanda and the Mandakini river basins.

World number one Serena Williams will try to capture her 17th Grand Slam title and become the oldest women’s champion in US Open history in a finals rematch Sunday with second seed Victoria Azarenka.

Addressing a massive rally at Ambikapur in Chhattisgarh’s Surajpur district with a replica of the “Red Fort” in the backdrop, symbolising his focus on Delhi, the BJP’s prospective prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a broadside against Congress heir apparent Rahul Gandhi for allegedly describing poverty as a state of mind.

The crib deaths came back to haunt state-run Dr B.C. Roy Post Graduate Institute of Paediatric Sciences, the lone super-speciality healthcare institution for children in West Bengal, as three dozen newborns died in the last five days. This has prompted the health department headed by chief minister Mamata Banerjee to order a probe.