Washington: India pitches for a revision in quota formula in the IMF based on purchasing power parity and demanded 5-6 per cent increase in voting power for emerging economies in the 186-nation multilateral agency.
Washington: Decrying the Republican plan to cut education funding by 20 per cent, President Barack Obama highlights the need for quality education in the US in order to compete with countries like India and China.
Dubai: An Indian woman, who was stranded at Muscat airport for five days after losing her passport, has died due to possible cardiac arrest which doctors felt was caused by severe mental trauma.
Melbourne: A controversial New Zealand TV host, who mocked and mispronounced Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's name prompting India to lodge a diplomatic protest, today resigned, acknowledging that he had "crossed the line".
Tianjin (China: Environment Ministers from key developing nations who are part of the BASIC grouping, including India and China, began a key meeting to work out a common strategy at the crucial Cancun Climate Summit to oppose attempts by the West to "foist" legally binding pacts.
Stockholm: Two Americans and a British-Cypriot economist won the 2010 Nobel economics prize for developing a theory that helps explain why many people can remain unemployed despite a large number of job vacancies.
London: Pakistan has been secretly accelerating pace of its nuclear weapons programme and it has assembled 70 to 90 nuclear warheads as against India's 60 to 80, a Washington- based nuclear watchdog has claimed.
Beijing: China held the Norwegian Government responsible for the "erroneous" decision of the Nobel Committee to name jailed activist Liu Xiaobo for the coveted Peace Prize and accused other countries of using the award to attack it.
United Nations: After a gap of 19 years, India elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, a position which would help it push more aggressively for the reform of the world body's top organ.
San Jose Mine (Chile): Wild celebrations erupts as the first of 33 men trapped underground for 10 weeks in a collapsed Chile mine triumphantly returned to the surface in a landmark rescue operation.
Peshawar: US drones targets the Taliban four times in the volatile North Waziristan tribal region of northwest Pakistan today, killing at least 11 militants, security officials said.
San Jose Mine(Chile): The last of 33 miners trapped underground in Chile for 10 long weeks rose to taste freedom and enjoy the sweet embrace of loved ones in an emotional finale to a clockwork rescue that kept the world spellbound.
Lahore: Pakistani police claim to have arrested seven members of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan who had plans to attack Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and senior security officials.
Dubai: An Indian pilot working for Qatar Airwys has died mid-flight due to a massive heart attack after the plane took off from Manila, even as the aircraft landed safely at Kuala Lumpur.
Peshawar: Five Pakistani soldiers and three militants are killed in a clash that erupts after Taliban rebels attacked a security check post in South Waziristan tribal region in the country's restive northwest.
Islamabad: Pakistan's Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry seeks a signed explanation from Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani in the wake of reports that the government was planning to remove key members of the superior judiciary, deepening the rift between the two sides.