Saturday
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh backs Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's demand for inclusion of a Dalit representative in the Lokpal drafting committee while Justice Santosh Hegde does not seem to find any merit in it.
New Delhi: Former Telecom Minister A Raja and two corporate honchos, who have been chargesheeted in the 2G Spectrum allocation scam case, complain to a Delhi court that documents supplied to them by the CBI were incomplete.
Sunday
Puttaparthi: Godman Sathya Sai Baba, a cult like figure who had a phenomenal following, including the high and mighty across the globe, dies battling illness caused by a multi-organ failure for nearly a month.
New Delhi: Amid Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's demand for inclusion of a Dalit in the Lokpal Bill drafting committee, Justice Santosh Hegde says if someone from the community should be included in the panel, then it should be one of the Dalit ministers.
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Monday
New Delhi: Sacked CWG Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi is arrested by CBI for allegedly awarding a contract for the Games to a Swiss company at an inflated rate of Rs 141 crore in a "pre-meditated" manner.
Puttaparthi: A sea of humanity--from commoners to political leaders, cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar and film personalities--descend on this little town in Andhra Pradesh to pay homage to spiritual Guru Satya Sai Baba.
Tuesday
New Delhi: A slipper is hurled at former CWG organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi in the Patiala House Court complex.
New Delhi: Pushing ahead with the controversial Jaitapur atomic power plant, government says it has decided to have a stand-alone safety system in the designs of each reactors, two of which are expected to be operational by 2019 and announced a bill would be brought to create an autonomous nuclear regulatory body.
Wednesday
New Delhi: About 800 pilots belonging to the erstwhile Indian Airlines go on a strike demanding pay parity with Air India pilots and better working conditions, leading to cancellation of over 20 flights and disruption of many others by several hours.
Dharamsala: Harvard scholar Lobsang Sangay is elected Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile and would take over the political duties relinquished by spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
Thursday
New Delhi: US Ambassador Timothy Roemer announces his resignation from the key diplomatic post citing personal commitments.
New Delhi: Eleven MPs, including one each from SP and BSP, demand rejection of the draft PAC report on the 2G scam which has indicted former Telecom Minister A Raja and made critical observations about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
Friday
New Delhi: With the Air India pilots' stir affecting thousands of travellers, the airline issues an "ultimatum" to its pilots asking them to resume work by this evening even as the Delhi High Court refused to stay a management order derecognising their union.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court stays the probe by a Rajya Sabha-appointed panel into allegations of judicial misconduct and corruption against Sikkim High Court Chief Justice PD Dinakaran who is facing an impeachment motion after the judge said the inquiry could be biased.