Saturday
Ahmedabad: Fighting hard to remove the taint of 2002 violence, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi began a three- day fast for peace and communal harmony vowing to end votebank politics but said nothing directly by way of regret for the post-Godhra carnage.
Jammu: Asserting that no political solution to the Jammu and Kashmir problem was possible till aspirations of people in all three regions of the state were addressed, Centre's interlocutors today said they would not look for a resolution from the prism of any region or community.
New Delhi: India supported the rebel-backed National Transitional Council of Libya and announced plans of considering a $2 million assistance to the country.
Sunday
Gangtok: A powerful earthquake with a 6.8 magnitude hit Sikkim and several areas in the eastern part of the country and neighbouring Nepal, leaving 18 dead and over 100 injured besides causing extensive damage to buildings and roads.
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New Delhi: As the Lok Pal debate rages, the Central Vigilance Commission feels corporates should be brought under the purview of the proposed anti-corruption bill to check graft effectively.
Monday
Gangtok: Battling landslides and torrential rains in quake-hit Sikkim, rescue teams got into full swing as the death toll in the 6.8 magnitude temblor mounted to 72, including 41 in the Himalayan state.
Ahmedabad: Attempting an image makeover,Narendra Modi winds up his three-day fast for communal harmony, claiming his Government made no distinction between minority and majority communities and skirted the issue of his being in the BJP's prime ministerial race.
Tuesday
Srinagar: BJP leader Sushma Swaraj's claim that PDP's Mehbooba Mufti had praised Narendra Modi triggered a spat involving the two women politicians and also Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
New Delhi: Activist Swami Agnivesh, who fell out with Anna Hazare's team during the agitation over Lokpal Bill, seeks forgiveness from the Gandhian and the others "who felt hurt" through his "unintentional acts".
Wednesday
Mangan (Sikkim): Twenty more bodies were recovered in quake-hit Sikkim taking the toll in Sunday's powerful 6.8 magnitude temblor to 116 which may go up further with rescue teams still to reach about 15 affected remote villages in North district.
Kolkata: Making a fresh offer for talks, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram asks Maoists to come
To the negotiating table by simply suspending violence without laying down arms, or leaving their ideology behind.
Chennai: The 11-day hunger strike against Kudankulam Nuclear Plant ends after the Tamil Nadu government promised to pass a resolution at the Cabinet for halting of the project even as the Centre sought to allay fears over safety.
Thursday
New Delhi: Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, one of India's greatest cricket captains ever and whose flair and acumen inspired a generation of cricketers, passed away here after battling a lung infection for the last few months.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court says the vault 'B' of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple will be opened only after substantial work regarding documentation and preservation of assets unearthed from other 'kalaras' (vaults) of the shrine is completed.
Friday
Chennai: National award-winning Malayalam film "Adaminte Makan Abu", which deals with the struggle of a poor perfume seller to collect money for Haj, has been named India's official entry for this year's Oscars.
New Delhi: In more trouble for jailed former Karnataka Minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy, the Supreme Court wants CBI to probe the "linkage" between mining activities in Karnataka's Bellary district and Ananthpur in Andhra Pradesh allegedly involving the Reddy brothers.