Saturday
Washington: US aid to India has dropped by over 25% since 2010, as the country goes through a grave economic crisis but the Obama Administration has adopted a new model of assistance to focus on poverty alleviation and addressing security challenges like terrorism.
Karachi: Making his first visit to Pakistan, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar says he is captivated by the brotherhood and goodwill here as he shared his experiences in realising his quest for ensuring an all-round development in his state.
Sunday
Washington: CIA Director David Petraeus abruptly resigns over an "unacceptable" extra-marital affair, shockingly ending a highly-decorated career that saw him command wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and then take the reins of the US spy agency.
Islamabad: Lawyers of LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other Pakistanis charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks today cross-examined five prosecution witnesses who had testified against the accused.
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Monday
Karachi: At least 33 people, including Members of the minority Shia community, have been killed in various incidents of target killings in Pakistan's commercial city of Karachi and Balochistan's capital Quetta.
Doha: The Syrian opposition strikes a hard-won deal on a new structure to take forward the 20-month uprising as clashes on the Golan Heights prompts what Israel said was its first fire across the armistice line since the 1973 Middle East war.
London: Barely eight weeks into the job, George Entwistle has stepped down as BBC's top executive after one of the broadcaster's flagship current affairs programmes wrongly implicated a former Conservative politician in a pedophile scandal involving children's care homes in Wales.
Male: Seeking to mollify New Delhi after Intemperate anti-India remarks by a key presidential aide, Maldives has given profound apology as a $514-million airport project carried out by Indian company GMR became a target of political football here.
Tuesday
Beijing: Self-immolation protests continues in Tibet coinciding with the Communist Party Congress here as two Tibetans today died after setting themselves on fire in separate incidents in China's northwestern Qinghai province.
Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court summons the Interior Secretary tomorrow to inform it about the government's position on providing security to former envoy Husain Haqqani so that he could come to the country and record his statement on the Memogate issue.
Wednesday
Islamabad: Pakistan wishes to have "friendly, cooperative and good neighbourly relations" with India as there are tremendous opportunities for the two countries to enhance cooperation for their mutual benefit says President Asif Ali Zardari.
Washington: US President Barack Obama wishes people "happy Diwali" and "saal mubarak", as he praised the resilience of Sikhs in the aftermath of the tragedy at a Wisconsin Gurdwara this year in which six members of the community were gunned down.
Washington: As the Obama Administration moves towards strategic re-balance in the Asia-Pacific region, the US today it was working with India to develop increased defence co- operation.
Thursday
Washington: US President Barack Obama says that there has been no breach in the national security due to the scandal that forced CIA Director Gen David Petraeus to quit because of an extra-marital affair.
London: A 31-year-old Indian woman dentist dies in Ireland from blood poisoning after doctors allegedly refuse to terminate her 17 week long pregnancy, telling her that "this is a Catholic country".
Islamabad: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar visits the ancient city of Taxila, terming it an "emotive" and "overpowering" experience, and the centuries-old Katasraj temples in Pakistan's Punjab province that have recently been restored.
Beijing: China's ruling Communist Party unveils a new generation of younger leadership, including Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang, as members of the key Central Committee to lead the world's largest political party and the second largest economy in the next decade.
Friday
Beijing: China's 'princeling' Xi Jinping is crowned the new head of the ruling CPC and the powerful military in a smooth transition to steer the world's second largest economy over the next decade, ending the 10-year reign of President Hu Jintao amid concerns over rampant corruption and widening rich-poor divide.
London: A day after the tragic death of Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar in Ireland evokes global outrage, Irish authorities say they would appoint an independent external expert to probe the matter so that it could "stand up to world's scrutiny".