A man and a woman carry their relatives to a polling booth to cast their votes during the municipal elections in Murshidabad, West Bengal, on Sunday.

Four-time world champion M.C. Mary Kom notched up her third Asian title while L. Sarita Devi clinched her fourth, as the Indian boxers finished fourth in the event with two gold, a silver and five bronze medals in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Sundayday.

Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper has died at the age of 74 after a long battle with prostate cancer.

Pakistan and Iran have signed an agreement for supply of gas from the Islamic republic through the $7.5-billion pipeline to be completed by the end of 2014.
The agreement was signed by National Iranian Oil Company managing director S.R. Kasaezadeh and Pakistan’s petroleum joint secretary Irshad Kaleemi on Friday. The

US President Barack Obama will attend a reception to be hosted by secretary of state Hillary Clinton in honour of her Indian counterpart, Mr S.M. Krishna, on Thursday, reflecting the importance he personally attaches to the Indo-US ties.

The US military is looking at options for a unilateral strike in Pakistan if a successful terrorist strike on US soil is traced back to that country, senior Pentagon officials were quoted as saying Saturday.

RJD MP Raghuvansh Prasad did not turn up at Beijing airport on time for President Pratibha Patil’s flight to the Chinese city of Luoyang on Saturday. The President had to wait nearly 20 minutes after boarding the chartered aircraft.

Describing BJP’s efforts to cobble up numbers through “opportunistic alliances” to form government in Jharkhand as “misadventure”, its MP Shatrughan Sinha on Saturday suggested party leaders stop the exercise immediately in the eastern state.

Britain’s gay treasury chief secretary David Laws, who is supposed to rescue the government’s finances, has used taxpayers’ money to pay more than £40,000 to his long-term partner, media reports said on Saturday.

In a departure from tradition of not singling out countries by name, the UN has asked India, Pakistan and Israel to join NPT and CTBT without further delay and pre-conditions.