Saturday
Mumbai: Ranbir Kapoor starrer 'Barfi!', a love story of a deaf and mute boy set in the fairy-tale world of 1970s Darjeeling, is nominated as Indian's entry to the Oscars next year in the foreign film category.
New Delhi: A young lawyer shouted slogans against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over corruption as he gets up to make a speech at a conference here.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh favours building a climate that attracts investments and establishes fair and effective regulatory institutions and legal processes.
Sunday
Gangtok/Guwahati: Landslides triggered by heavy rains claim 27 lives, including those of ITBP and BRO personnel in Sikkim, even as flood situation in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh deteriorated with vast areas reeling under its impact.
New Delhi: Slamming Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the issue of allowing FDI in multi-brand retail, BJP leader L K Advani today said the red carpet was being rolled out for Walmart when it faced protests even in the US and New York City "shut Walmart out".
Monday
Bangalore: In a security breach, a woman posing as a senior scientist entered the Indian Space Research Organisation with a fake ID card and was in the premises for four hours before being arrested by the police.
New Delhi: Just a week after filing cases in the coal block allocation scam, CBI has begun probing alleged irregularities in the country's first-ever attempt to explore untapped mineral wealth worth thousands of crores lying in the deep sea bed, sensing another mega scam.
Tuesday
Mumbai: The coalition government in Maharashtra faces a crisis with Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar of NCP resigning in the wake of allegations of a massive irrigation scam, as 20 more of his party ministers offered to quit in a bid to mount pressure on Congress.
Ghaziabad: After remaining behind bars for nearly five months, dentist Nupur Talwar facing trial in the twin murder case of her daughter Aarushi and domestic aide Hemraj is released from Dasna jail.
New Delhi: Congress fully backs Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by endorsing government's new economic reforms even as there was demand in the party for steps to allay people's apprehensions on these measures.
Wednesday
New Delhi: The Centre urges the Supreme Court to allow regulated, low-impact tourist activities in up to 20% of the core/critical tiger habitat in the country as part of an exercise to promote tourism.
Mumbai: Differences came to the fore in the NCP over the resignation of Ajit Pawar as Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister with his loyalists asking him to take back his decision, but party chief Sharad Pawar appeared to be firm on his exit and rejected the resignation of other ministers.
Siwan/New Delhi: Seven persons are killed and over 30 injured when a train rams into an engineering college bus at a manned level crossing in Bihar's Siwan district, sparking protests by students who tried to torch the train.
New Delhi: Lamenting that India has not been able to make a impact on the world scale in the field of science, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asks scientists to dream big and not to despair.
Thursday
New Delhi: Former Gujarat Minister Amit Shah is permitted to enter the state by the Supreme Court, which rejects a CBI plea to cancel his bail in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case but agreed to shift the trial to Mumbai "to preserve the integrity of the trial".
New Delhi: Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik are soon expected to formalise the recently-signed liberalised visa agreement between the two countries.
New Delhi: In a relief to government, the Supreme Court holds that auction is not the only method for allocating natural resources to private companies and makes it clear that its 2G verdict was confined to the spectrum and not to other resources.
Friday
New Delhi: Brajesh Mishra, the country's First National Security Adviser, who played a key role in foreign policy matters and pushed for deeper engagement with the US dies here following heart ailment.
New Delhi: The situation in Kashmir is improving, President Pranab Mukherjee says after winding up his two-day visit to the valley during which he interacted with a cross-section of the population besides being briefed by Governor N N Vohra and Chief Minister Omar Abduallah.
New Delhi: In a major initiative to check corruption and pilferage of subsidised items, the government is launching an ambitious scheme for direct electronic transfer of cash to beneficiaries that is expected to cover one quarter of households of the country.