Saturday
Islamabad: A Pakistani university's move to include India-born controversial author Salman Rushdie's two famous books 'Midnight's Children' and 'Shame' in additional courses for MPhil and PhD is drawing the ire of students and teachers.
Beijing: Four Indians, who were visiting the Chinese city of Shanghai to attend an automobile fair, have been detained by local police on charges of indulging in prostitution.
Sunday
Dhaka: Five-year-old Indian boy Ariful Sheikh, who along with his grandparents spent a year in a Bangladeshi jail after being sentenced to two months in prison for trespassing, is sent back home through the land border.
Victoria (Seychelles): In the backdrop of the menace posed by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, India says it is determined to work with Seychelles to ensure a secure environment for the benefit of the two countries.
Monday
Oslo: Norwegian telecom company Telenor says it will write down $682 million (Norwegian Krone 3.9 billion) to remove accounting exposure to India due to uncertain business environment in the sector.
Islamabad: Al-Qaeda names computer literare Farman Ali Shinwari, a resident of the restive Khyber tribal region and whose brothers have been associated with terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, as its new chief in Pakistan.
Tuesday
New York: In a major legal setback to former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a US judge rules that he does not enjoy diplomatic immunity in a sexual assault lawsuit against him, rejecting his motion to dismiss the case and paving the way for the suit to head to trial in New York.
London: In a damning report, a key British parliamentary committee says media baron Rupert Murdoch had shown "wilful blindness" over phone hacking and was "not a fit person" to run a major company, 44 years after he entered Britain's newspaper market by acquiring the News of the World.
Wednesday
Naypyidaw: Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is sworn in as a member of parliament, opening a new chapter in the Nobel laureate's near quarter-century struggle against authoritarian rule.
Beijing: The week-long drama over a blind Chinese dissident taking refuge in the US Embassy here ends, with the American envoy driving him out of the premises for medical care and to be reunited with his family, hours after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives for talks.
Thursday
Beijing: A diplomatic row over a blind Chinese dissident overshadows the inaugural meeting of the annual China-US strategic dialogue here after he seeks American asylum for himself and his family over fears that "anything can happen" to them if they remain in the country.
Kathmandu: All the ministers in Nepal's coalition government resign en-mass after major political parties in the country reach a deal to form a new national unity government within two days in a bid to end the current political deadlock.
Friday
Beijing: China and the US appear to have found a way out of a messy diplomatic row, with Beijing agreeing to let a blind Chinese dissident at the centre of the crisis to leave the country and Washington assuring all assistance to give him asylum.
Washington: Ailing Air India is slapped a fine of $80,000 by US authorities for failing to post customer service and tarmac delay contingency plans on its website and adequately inform passengers about its optional fees.
