Saturday
Chicago: The bail plea of Tahawwur Hussein Rana, who faces possible life sentence for involvement in the Mumbai attacks, has been opposed by federal prosecutors in a Chicago court, which asks the Pakistani-Canadian LeT operative to respond to this by January 20.
New Delhi: Flights of Air India and other Indian carriers operating in South Asia have been put on high security alert following intelligence inputs that Pakistan- based LeT and Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists were plotting to hijack an Indian plane in the region.
Sunday
Dhaka: The war of words between Bangladesh's 'battling-begums' intensifies with opposition leader and former premier Khaleda Zia terming the Indo-Bangla pacts signed during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's India visit as a total sell out.
London: Alarmed by a slew of terror attacks on sensitive military installations in Pakistan, the US is training "a crack unit" of elite troops to seal off that country's nuclear weapons and snatch them back if they fall into the hands of militants or rogue elements in the security apparatus, a media report claims.
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Monday
Dubai: Legendary painter M F Husain, now on a self-imposed exile in the UAE, is planing to work on three grand art projects depicting the Indian civilisation "from Mahenjo-daro to Manmohan Singh", the Arab civilisation and hundred years of Indian cinema.
London: Chinese hackers try to break into computers in the office of India's National Security Adviser and some other government departments last month, NSA M K Narayanan has told a leading British daily.
Tuesday
Beijing: China dismisses as "groundless" India's charge that Chinese hackers had attempted to break into sensitive Indian government computers, a week after American internet giant Google levelled a similar allegation against it.
Los Angeles: Indian musician AR Rahman's first Hollywood film 'Couple's Retreat' wins him a place in the Oscar shortlist yet again for 'Best Original Song'.
Wednesday
Kathmandu: Stating that the armed forces of India and Nepal enjoy "special military relationship", Army chief Gen Deepak Kapoor says that their ties will not be affected by political changes and whoever heads the government.
Washington: A lone gunman goes on a shooting spree in a Virginia county near here killing eight people and firing at a helicopter hunting him before surrendering to hundreds of policemen who had cornered him.
Chicago: Pakistani-Canadian LeT operative Tahawwur Rana, set to be arraigned along with his accomplice David Headley next week over the Mumbai attacks, makes a desperate bid to seek bail, pleading before a court here that he would not escape from the US as it would only force him to live as a fugitive.
Melbourne: In the wake of a spate of racial attacks against Indians in Australia, the Victorian Government has appointed a former football player as the nation's first "respect minister" to tackle problems related to growing racism and alcohol-fuelled violence in the state.
Friday
Islamabad: Pakistan, which is experiencing "Mumbai-like attacks almost every other day", cannot guarantee there will not be a repeat of the 26/11 strikes in India, Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani has told the US.
United Nations: Para-military CISF personnel have been guarding banks and other vital centres in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, to prevent looting besides providing security to Indians in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake.