Saturday
Panaji: The death of British teenaged girl Scarlett Keeling sparks trading of charges between her mother Fiona Mackeown and Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik with Fiona accusing him of having nexus with drug mafia and Naik responding by demanding a probe into Fiona's source of income and frequent trips to Karnataka.

New Delhi: Around 50 Tibetans are detained in the national capital this morning as they tried to storm the Chinese Embassy building here to protest the violent crackdown on monks in Tibet's capital Lhasa.

Sunday Mcleodganj (HP): The Dalai Lama accuses China of unleashing a 'cultural genocide' in Tibet and demands an impartial international probe into the situation in violence-hit Lhasa.

Lucknow: Two years after it was constituted, the All-India Muslim Women Personal Law Board comes out with a new "Shariat nikahnama" that makes registration of marriages compulsory, accords several rights to the wife and is applicable to both Shias and Sunnis.

Monday New Delhi: India seeks consular access to Sarabjit Singh facing execution on April one as efforts to seek reprieve for him intensified with his sister making a desperate plea to save her "innocent" brother.

New Delhi: Government and the Left parties decide to hold discussions next month on the draft India-specific safeguards agreement with the IAEA after the allies were briefed on the outcome of the negotiations in Vienna.

New Delhi: The purchase of a 36-year-old US warship rocks the Parliament with the Left parties demanding a statement from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on whether there was a restraining clause in the procurement of the vessel, barring its use in case of a conflict. Tuesday Dharamshala (HP): Facing increasing criticism for his 'Middle way' policy, the Dalai Lama threatens to quit as the head of the Tibetan exile movement if the unrest in Tibet got out of control and rejected Chinese charges that he was inciting violence there.

New Delhi: Suspended Inspector General of Police Ravi Kant Sharma is convicted for murder of Delhi journalist Shivani Bhatnagar by a city court which held him as the "main conspirator" in the sensational nine-year-old case.

New Delhi: Facing execution on April one in Lahore on terror charges, Sarabjit Singh is clinging to hope as India appealed for his clemency on humanitarian grounds but there was no encouraging response from Pakistan.

Wednesday Shillong: Donkupar Roy, heading the Meghalaya Progressive Alliance, is sworn in as chief minister of the state along with a six-member team, ending the 10-day stint of D D Lapang who resigned due to lack of numbers.

New Delhi: Sarabjit Singh, on death row in Pakistan, gets a one-month breather with his hanging being put off till April 30 by President Pervez Musharraf following India's appeal for clemency on humanitarian grounds.

Kolkata: Controversial Bangladesh author Taslima Nasreen leaves India to an unknown destination and reaches London, as she voiced her bitterness against the Indian government accusing it of being no better than "religious fundamentalists."

Thursday Pokhran(Rajasthan): India stages one of the biggest military wargames in Rajasthan's Thar desert but the showcase event is marred by tragedy when a mortar explodes killing three soldiers and seriously injuring another two.

Jaipur: A controversial bill banning religious conversion, which was returned by the then Governor Pratibha Patil in 2006, is passed by the Rajasthan assembly amid stormy protests and walkout by opposition Congress.

Chandigarh: Pakistani national Khalid Mehmood was suffering from chronic liver disease and died due to "medical problems", a preliminary probe concludes after circumstances of his death generated a controversy in the neighbouring country.

Friday New Delhi: Tibetan protesters storm the Chinese Embassy here, taking the security personnel by surprise and scaling the walls of the high-security complex.

Dharamsala: Calling Chinese "oppression" in Tibet as a "challenge to the world's conscience", US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants the international community to denounce the recent crackdown saying "we can't talk of human rights if we don't speak against China."

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