Saturday
Islamabad: Pakistan's new ISI chief, Lt Gen Zahir-ul-Islam, is the nephew of Indian National Army hero Shah Nawaz Khan and through him, shares a tenuous link with Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan.
Cairo: Egypt begins registering candidates who will contest the historic May election to pick Hosni Mubarak's democratic successor, kicking off the country's first free presidential race.
Sunday
Sendai/Tokyo: A moment of silence, solemn prayers and candlelight vigils mark the first anniversary of Japan's massive quake and tsunami that killed nearly 19,000 people and triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since 1986, with leaders vowing to rebuild the nation.
Washington: Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum cruises to victory in the Kansas caucuses demonstrating his strength among conservative voters, while front-runner Mitt Romney wins Wyoming ahead of the crucial primaries in the Southern states of Alabama and Mississippi.
Monday
Islamabad: A Pakistani court directed police to take into protective custody a 19-year-old Hindu girl and her Muslim husband, amid allegations that she was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam.
Singapore: The BRICS group of nations are exploring the possibility of establishing a South-South Development Bank as an emerging economies' alternative to the existing West-led financial institutions, and will hold a meeting in New Delhi next week to discuss its feasibility.
Tuesday
Dhaka: In one of the worst boat tragedies in recent times in Bangladesh, at least 35 people, including women and children, were killed and over 150 missing when a ferry packed with nearly 300 passengers capsized in a river today after a head-on collision with an oil tanker.
London: In an early morning swoop, media baron Rupert Murdoch's aide and the former editor of the News of the World, Rebekah Brooks, and her husband were arrested along with four others in connection with the widening probe into the phone hacking scandal here.
Islamabad: Indian spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar offered to hold talks with the Taliban to usher in peace in the region, saying it would help foster understanding among people with divergent views.
Wednesday
Washington: US and Britan underlines their commitment to a transition plan agreed among Nato partners despite a number of bloody incidents involving American troops in recent weeks.
Islamabad/New Delhi: Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan pulls out of the 'India Today' Conclave in New Delhi, citing the presence of controversial author Salman Rushdie at the same event.
Thursday
London/Colombo: Pressure mounts on Sri Lanka over its rights record as a British channel broadcast a documentary suggesting that slain LTTE chief V Prabhakaran's 12-year-old son was killed by army after the boy surrendered, prompting Colombo to reject it as "baseless and unacceptable".
Islamabad: Virtually rejecting Pakistan Supreme Court's directive to reopen graft cases against the President, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani says he would rather go to jail for committing contempt of court than violate the Constitution.
Friday
Washington: Amid reports claiming America has threatened India with sanctions if it does not reduce its Iranian oil imports by June end, US officials say Washington and New Delhi are having "productive conversations" on the issue and termed the report as "highly speculative".
New York: A US judge dismisses a court complaint against Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath for his alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, saying the court has no jurisdiction over the Indian leader in the case.
