THIMPU - Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, who is here to attend the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation's (SAARC) Foreign Secretaries and Council of Ministers meetings, has said that India will go into talks with Pakistan on the sidelines of the event with an open mind

LONDON - Tory MP Patrick Mercer has had police panic button installed in his office after he was allegedly kicked in the groin, punched and kicked on the floor by his former mistress, Sarah Coyle, who works as a House of Commons secretary.

LONDON - Don't have an invitation to the royal wedding? Well, you may still be able to witness it - jus like you were there.

BHOPAL - "Aye Korku Modin Dhyan Bati Jiv Taso Korku odi Saeeva." This, in Korku dialect means Korku will die out for want of immediate attention. Korku is a dialect spoken down the generations in Khargon, Khadwa, Betul, Hoshangabad districts in Madhya Pradesh.

SRINAGAR - He vividly remembers his inner turmoil when he saw the last remaining bookshop in Srinagar closed at the height of unrest in the 1990s. But London-based Kashmiri journalist Mirza Waheed is now thrilled to see youngsters in the valley taking to books with genuine passion.