International

The Bingham report, published on October 24, launches a scathing attack, ironically, on the Bank of England which stands accused of having failed to discharge its task of supervising BCCI.

Indian-born tennis player on a comeback trail.

Asian clients suffer at the hands of the liquidators.

Solarz has been disadvantaged by an electoral redistricting process that abolished his 13th district in Brooklyn, New York, and may find going tough in the new 12th district

Inter-racial children are caught between two worlds.

The move by the US to freeze Dawood's assets across the world is a vindication for India and a major embarrassment for Pakistan.

Tony Blair's Iraq woes don't seem to end. Just after the British PM managed to wrangle out of the Hutton inquiry over the infamous "sexed up" dossier on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, he is now entangled in new controversies.

The choice of Sandip Verma for Wolverhampton South West came after Tory leader urged local associations to select more women and ethnic minority candidates to ensure the parliamentary party reflected modern Britain more closely.

Who is British? What is Britishness? These are questions that have been plaguing the Home Office and it is trying hard to set down some rules for wannabe British citizens.

Union foreign minister Yashwant Sinha's Australia visit last week saw him score some diplomatic points, at least where Pakistan was concerned.

It was a foregone conclusion that some heads would roll in the David Kelly episode. And the first one to go was that of Alastair Campbell, British Prime Minister Tony Blair's press secretary.

Pakistani cable operators are in the throes of a withdrawal symptom, literally and metaphorically. Denied permission to air Indian channels - extremely popular all over the country-they have gone on a token strike.

It happened in 1965, 1977 and then again in 2003. And, on the day after, there is no guarantee that the worst ever blackout in American history won't happen again.

According to opinion polls, a majority - 68 per cent - believes the Tony Blair Government was unfair in its treatment of scientist David Kelly in the Iraq issue.

According to World Markets Research Centre, a risk assessment agency, the US is the country fourth "most at risk" of a terrorist strike, after Colombia, Israel and Pakistan, while India is rated as the ninth most vulnerable.