Ashish Kumar Sen

Bangladeshi opposition leader Sheikh Hasina Wazed says she will return home on Monday to face what she calls "fictitious" murder and extortion charges filed against her while she was traveling in the United States and Europe.

Architecture professor Mario Cortes had promised to meet Minal Panchal at 11 am on April 20, wanting to review his bubbly 26-year-old protegee's academic progress. It was one appointment the conscientious Mumbaikar couldn't keep, killed as she was with 31 others by a South Korean student who went on a shooting rampage on April 16 at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, before he ended the carnage by committing suicide.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister on her determination to return to Pakistan, willingness to ally with Nawaz Sharief, prospects of restoring democracy, American attitudes towards her and terrorism in Pakistan, her marriage and much else.

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto wants to return to Pakistan to seek election this year. In an interview from Dubai, where she has been living in exile, Mrs. Bhutto told The Washington Times that failure to reach an understanding with President Pervez Musharraf could mean false charges leading to her arrest, but it is a risk she is willing to take.

Is Indian fashion designer Anand Jon a victim or pervert?

A top Democratic congressman introduces legislation that would sanction any country, including India, which finalises energy deals with Iran. If eventually signed into law, it could create a stumbling block for the India-Iran gas pipeline.

Every so often American frustration with Islamabad bubbles over, as it did on a recent January day when director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte told the Senate intelligence committee that Pakistan is "a major source of Islamic extremism". It had many wondering here: did his remark reflect the beginnings of a shift in Washington's Pakistan policy?