The will-he, won't-he guessing game ended on Saturday when South Asia's political royal scion Rahul Gandhi made an appearance on the second day of the wedding celebrations of Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk.
India has pressed Pakistan for the voice samples of the seven accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and sought speedy trial of the case in that country to bring to justice the perpetrators of the strikes.
Bhutan's legendary gross national happiness quotient went into overdrive with prayers soaring into the mountains surrounding the startlingly beautiful 17th century monastery-fortress in Bhutan's old capital as the country's 31-year-old reformist king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck crowned childhood sweetheart Ashi Jetsun Pema his queen.
In a thinly-veiled attack on Islamabad that had shrugged off blame for 26/11 Mumbai attacks by terrorist groups operating on its soil, home minister P Chidambaram on Saturday said governments could not get away by pointing fingers at non-state actors and owed it to their neighbours to suppress the groups and bring them to justice.
India today said the arrest of Kashmiri separatist leader Ghulam Nabi Fai in the US was long overdue as there has been suspicion for a long time that he was getting funds from Pakistani agencies.
Interior minister Rehman Malik on Friday said that ISI operative and lobbyist Ghulam Nabi Fai is a well respected person in Pakistan and the FBI should make public if it has proof of his being a spy.
A monk in Bhutan has become the first person jailed under the country's draconian anti-smoking law after a court handed him a three-year prison sentence for smuggling tobacco worth $2.50.
Setting a positive tone ahead of their meeting in Thimphu, foreign secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir today said they would endeavour to find a way forward for continued engagement between the two countries.
Pak goes on offensive ahead of talks 
Seeking a via media to carry forward the talk process, foreign secretary Nirupama Rao will hold discussions with her Pakistan counterpart Salman Bashir today late evening.
Jayanth Jacob reports.
Pak goes on offensive ahead of talksAgainst the backdrop of the killing of some Tamil fishermen allegedly by the Sri Lankan Navy, India is expected to convey its concerns and press for an end to such incidents when external affairs minister S M Krishna meets his counterpart G L Peiris in Thimpu on Monday.
India is "cautiously optimistic" on charting a way forward in the dialogue process with Pakistan and would like to see the process to mature keeping in view ground realities, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said today.
A day after the India-Pakistan talks, guarded optimism and refrain from trading charges in public were in full display in Thimpu on Monday -- while foreign secretary Nirupama Rao quoted from Shakespeare's King Lear, her Pakistan counterpart Salman Bashir spoke of broad meeting of the minds.
Pakistani foreign secretary Salman Bashir on Monday night called on Indian external affairs Minister SM Krishna and complimented him for guiding and taking the dialogue process forward.
A compromise on the process of addressing the full India-Pakistan agenda and a principle of reciprocity on the 26/11 inquiry seem set to re-start the peace process.
India and Pakistan have made some leeway in their demands for sending commissions with regard to 26/11 terror attack to each other's country by agreeing on the principle of comity.