Saturday
Islamabad: A Pakistani court conducting the Mumbai attacks trial reserves to July 17 its decision on LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi's application challenging the report of a judicial panel that probed the 2008 strikes, besides rejecting the bail plea of one of the seven suspects.
Lahore: Over 100 suspects have been arrested by Pakistan police in connection with a Taliban attack in this eastern city that left nine policemen dead.
Sunday
Washington: Noting that India prohibited foreign investment in too many sectors such as retail, US President Barack Obama cites concerns over deteriorating investment climate there to endorse another "wave" of economic reforms.
Washington: Ruling out any solution from "outside" to the issue of Jammu and Kashmir, US President Barack Obama underlined that disputes between India and Pakistan can only be resolved by the two countries themselves.
Monday
Dubai/Rameswaram: An Indian fisherman is killed and three others were wounded when a security team onboard a US Navy ship fired at their small boat off Dubai, a United Arab Emirates official says.
Washington: Indo-US ties need more momentum in some areas, according to President Barack Obama, who is still "proud of the progress" made in strengthening them. Was the warmth in the relations "fading", the US leader was asked during an interview to PTI here.
Tuesday
Houston: A cheerful Sunita Williams and two of her colleagues successfully dock their Soyuz capsule with the International Space Station for a four-month scientific mission, two days after the record-setting Indian- American astronaut blasted off for her second space odyssey.
Washington: A US Senate panel has accused global banking giant HSBC of exposing the country's financial system to various terror financing, money laundering and drug trafficking activities with transactions worth billions of dollars, due to poor risk control systems at the bank.
Wednesday
Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari writes to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying that he hopes the resumption of Indo-Pak cricketing ties would become a "formidable confidence-building measure" adding to the "positive atmosphere" in bilateral relations.
Damascus: A suicide attack which strikes at the heart of Syria's security apparatus killed defence minister General Daoud Rajha and President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law Assef Shawkat.
Thursday
Washington: The US House of Representatives has passed an amendment unanimously that cuts down USD 650 million in military aid to Pakistan as Republicans sought to tamp down demands for still deeper reductions.
United Nations: Russia and China vetoes a new UN Security Council resolution that would have slapped new sanctions against President Bashar Al Assad's regime, while India was among the 11 countries that voted in favour.
Friday
Washington: A masked gunman turns the much-awaited premiere of the latest Batman movie in a US cinema hall into a "horrific" bloodbath, spraying the audience with bullets killing 12 people and leaving 59 others injured in the worst mass shooting incident in the country since 2007.
London: The new student visa system in Britain, that was introduced to prevent abuse, has led to a decline in the number of students coming from India, but the overall number of international students has not changed, according to a Home Office minister.
