Saturday:
New Delhi: Describing Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore as a "multi-faceted genius", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces that a prestigious international award will be instituted in his name.
New Delhi: Suspense continues over arrest of DMK MP Kanimozhi with a special court reserving for May 14 its orders on her bail application after CBI strongly objected to it saying her "complicity" in the alleged bribe given to Kalaignar TV in the 2G scam was clear.
Sunday:
Raipur/Kadapa: Amid landmine blasts set off by naxals, nearly 40 per cent polling was recorded for Bastar Lok Sabha bypoll in Chhattisgarh while an estimated 70 per cent exercised their franchise for the bye-election to Kadapa Parliamentary constituency in Andhra Pradesh.
Agra/Greater Noida: Protests over land acquisition spreads to Agra, Mathura and Aligarh as farmers clashed with police and torched vehicles, while the toll rose to four in violence-hit Greater Noida.
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Monday:
New Delhi/Washington: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama discuss over phone the American operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in Pakistan and the situation in the region.
Vidisha (MP): Forty-two passengers are injured, three seriously, when the Mumbai-Pratapgarh Udyognagri Express derailed near here, disrupting rail traffic for over 14 hours.
Tuesday:
Thiruvananthapuram: Citing "violation" of pollution and environmental safety rules, Kerala State Pollution Control Board orders closure of Hindustan Insecticides Ltd--a major Endosulfan producer--amid a mounting demand for a total ban of this pesticide.
Greater Noida/Agra: Amid heavy deployment of police, situation in parts of violence-hit western UP remained tense but under control, even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says a bill will be moved in Parliament soon to amend the Land Acquisition Act.
Wednesday:
Greater Noida: Rahul Gandhi is arrested and later released by the UP police capping a day of high drama after he slips in unnoticed in pre-dawn hours to support the farmers agitating against the state's land acquisition process for a expressway project.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court refuses to alter its 1996 judgement diluting charges in the Bhopal gas disaster case but left it open to the Sessions Court there to consider restoring stringent charges against the accused, who had got punishment under lighter provisions.
New Delhi: Turning more heat on Pakistan, India releases a list of 50 "most wanted fugitives", including underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, 26/11 mastermind and LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and dreaded terrorist Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi, hiding in that country.
Thursday:
Greater Noida/Lucknow: An all out political war breaks out among Congress, BJP and BSP over the issue of farmers' agitation in Uttar Pradesh with Chief Minister Mayawati accusing Opposition parties of spreading "lies and rumours" and doing "dirty politics".
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court comes down heavily on state government and rejected its proposal for transfer of 2004 Ishrat Jahan encounter case to Special Task Force (STF), while appointing a new chairman of the special investigation team (SIT) formed by it to probe the case.
Friday:
Kolkata/Chennai: Mamata Banerjee storms the Red bastion terminating the Left Front's 34-year stranglehold on West Bengal, while Jayalalithaa knocked DMK out of power in Tamil Nadu with a landslide victory in the assembly elections whose results were out today.
New Delhi: A complete ban on production, sale and use of pesticide Endosulfan for eight weeks is ordered by the Supreme Court which held that human life is more important than anything else and "We don't want a single child to suffer".