Saturday
New Delhi: Karantaka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, facing demands from dissidents to step down, says "everything has been resolved".
Ranchi/New Delhi: A court here sends Vikash Sinha, an associate of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, to ten days in the custody of Enforcement Directorate.
Sunday
Tawang: Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, arrives in this picturesque town in Arunachal Pradesh on a four-day visit which has drawn widespread interest in the wake of objections raised by China.
New Delhi: After unveiling a bold PSU sell off plan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says his government is better placed now to unleash financial sector reforms, but the fiscal stimulus will be phased out next year.
Monday
Mumbai: In an unprecedented incident, MNS MLAs attacks Samajwadi Party legislator Abu Azmi inside the state assembly for taking oath in Hindi and not in Marathi marking a violent debut for Raj Thackeray's party in the House.
Bangalore: Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, who is facing land grabbing charge, was jostled and two judges locked in a court hall by agitating advocates whose protests in the premises dissolved into chaos. DIGEST-DOMESTIC 2
Tuesday
New Delhi: The ruling Left Front in West Bengal appears heading for another debacle in the assembly bypolls at the hands of Trinamool Congress and Congress even as it Is routed in Kerala where Congress retains all the three seats.
New Delhi: Manu Sharma, convicted in the Jessica Lall murder case returns to Tihar jail before expiry of his parole following mounting criticism that he violated parole norms, prompting Delhi government to ask police to investigate the allegations.
Wednesday
New Delhi: With cyclonic storm 'Phyan' approaching coastlines, the Centre alerts Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa and two Union Territories is sending disaster response force for their assistance.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court refers to a Constitution bench the issue of whether judiciary can frame laws while noting that courts do not have the expertise to pass orders to the government on issues like high prices and uneployment.
Thursday
New Delhi: The National Investigating Agency (NIA) registers a case against suspected terrorist David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana to probe their role in various terror strikes in the country including the 26/11 Mumbai attack.
New Delhi: Mumbai based Balaji Bullion emerges as one of the focal points for the multi-agency investigations into the Rs 2,000 crore illegal investment andhawala scam in which former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda and his associates are accused.
Friday
New Delhi: France warns that failure of the Copenhagen conference on climate change can prove to be a "disaster" and came up with a Climate Justice Plan (CJP) which divides the nations into three categories on basis of carbon emissions.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court says judges cannot be put under public scrutiny as it would hamper their functioning and independence.
November 14, 2009
Digest of international news for the week Nov 7- Nov 13
Saturday
Houston: US military psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan, responsible for a horrific shooting spree that left 13 dead, is in coma and transferred from a civilian to an army hospital for security reasons.
St Andrews: Differences over exiting economic stimuli, reforming banking system and fighting climate change are threatening to derail efforts of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his G-20 counterparts as they met here to pursue an agenda of sustainable economic growth.
Sunday
Islamabad: A suicide bomber strikes a crowded market on the outskirts of Peshawar killing at least 11 persons, including an anti-Taliban Mayor believed to be the target of the attack, and injuring 36, nearly two weeks after a massive car bombing in the northwestern Pakistani city leaves 118 people dead.
London: Amid China's claims over parts of Arunachal Pradesh, India says differences between New Delhi and Beijing over border issues can be resolved through dialogue.
Monday
Washington: Acknowledging that there is "an ingress of the ISI in every terrorist group", former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has alleged Afghanistan is under influence of Indian intelligence agencies and he has documentary evidence against it.
Melbourne: In yet another attack on Indian students here, a 22-year-old youth was punched on his face by a group of Australians, who also told the victim that "in this place there is no home for you".
Tuesday
Washington: A team of Indian intelligence officials leave the US disappointed after a week-long stay here as they could not question American national David Coleman Headley, arrested by the FBI on charges of plotting a major terror attack in India at the behest of Pakistan-based LeT.
Beijing/New Delhi: Angry China says it was "strongly dissatisfied" with the Dalai Lama being allowed to visit "disputed" Arunachal Pradesh but India refused to join issue with it and hoped the "rhetoric" will end with the culmination of the Tibetan leader's trip.
Wednesday
Washington: A Chicago court has given 60 days deadline to FBI to complete its investigations and file an indictment into the foiled terror plot in India and Denmark by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist group.
Kathmandu: A Nepalese woman minister sparked off a public outrage by slapping the senior district officer five times on the face, because he provided her an old car for her official visit to southern districts.
Thursday
Lahore: Pakistan's PPP-led government is considering a proposal to seek Interpol's red corner notice against ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf in a bid to bring him back from abroad to face treason charges, days after he called party chief and President Asif Ali Zardari "a criminal and a fraud".
Kathmandu: Nepal's Maoists have put up a huge show of strength as tens of thousands of their supporters laid a siege to government secretariat here demanding an end to CPN-UML's rule, leading to clashes with police which left 50 people, including MPs and an ex-deputy premier, injured.
Friday
New York/Houston: US federal authorities were in the process of seizing four mosques and a 36-storey skyscraper in Manhattan that are owned by a nonprofit Muslim organisation long suspected of having ties to the Iranian government.
Houston: US Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing fellow soldiers at a military base, is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and may face death penalty if convicted, even as President Barack Obama ordered review of intelligence related to the incident.
Houston: US military psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan, responsible for a horrific shooting spree that left 13 dead, is in coma and transferred from a civilian to an army hospital for security reasons.
St Andrews: Differences over exiting economic stimuli, reforming banking system and fighting climate change are threatening to derail efforts of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his G-20 counterparts as they met here to pursue an agenda of sustainable economic growth.
Sunday
Islamabad: A suicide bomber strikes a crowded market on the outskirts of Peshawar killing at least 11 persons, including an anti-Taliban Mayor believed to be the target of the attack, and injuring 36, nearly two weeks after a massive car bombing in the northwestern Pakistani city leaves 118 people dead.
London: Amid China's claims over parts of Arunachal Pradesh, India says differences between New Delhi and Beijing over border issues can be resolved through dialogue.
Monday
Washington: Acknowledging that there is "an ingress of the ISI in every terrorist group", former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has alleged Afghanistan is under influence of Indian intelligence agencies and he has documentary evidence against it.
Melbourne: In yet another attack on Indian students here, a 22-year-old youth was punched on his face by a group of Australians, who also told the victim that "in this place there is no home for you".
Tuesday
Washington: A team of Indian intelligence officials leave the US disappointed after a week-long stay here as they could not question American national David Coleman Headley, arrested by the FBI on charges of plotting a major terror attack in India at the behest of Pakistan-based LeT.
Beijing/New Delhi: Angry China says it was "strongly dissatisfied" with the Dalai Lama being allowed to visit "disputed" Arunachal Pradesh but India refused to join issue with it and hoped the "rhetoric" will end with the culmination of the Tibetan leader's trip.
Wednesday
Washington: A Chicago court has given 60 days deadline to FBI to complete its investigations and file an indictment into the foiled terror plot in India and Denmark by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist group.
Kathmandu: A Nepalese woman minister sparked off a public outrage by slapping the senior district officer five times on the face, because he provided her an old car for her official visit to southern districts.
Thursday
Lahore: Pakistan's PPP-led government is considering a proposal to seek Interpol's red corner notice against ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf in a bid to bring him back from abroad to face treason charges, days after he called party chief and President Asif Ali Zardari "a criminal and a fraud".
Kathmandu: Nepal's Maoists have put up a huge show of strength as tens of thousands of their supporters laid a siege to government secretariat here demanding an end to CPN-UML's rule, leading to clashes with police which left 50 people, including MPs and an ex-deputy premier, injured.
Friday
New York/Houston: US federal authorities were in the process of seizing four mosques and a 36-storey skyscraper in Manhattan that are owned by a nonprofit Muslim organisation long suspected of having ties to the Iranian government.
Houston: US Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing fellow soldiers at a military base, is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and may face death penalty if convicted, even as President Barack Obama ordered review of intelligence related to the incident.
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