A Delhi court yesterday asked India's former junior minister for External Affairs M J Akbar to testify before it on October 31 in the criminal defamation complaint he filed against his former journalist-colleague Priya Ramani who has accused him of sexual misconduct around 20 years ago.

In a statement released after he arrived in India from an official tour in Nigeria, Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar terms the allegations against him “false and fabricated”.

Bangladesh’s liberation from Pakistan was an ideological recast. Its differences with India aren't based on ideological premise that Hindus and Muslims are engaged in some form of permanent war.