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Saturday
Panaji: With the party patriarch L K Advani and some other senior leaders keeping away from the deliberations of its National Executive here, the BJP struggles to resolve its dilemma over Narendra Modi's role in the 2014 elections, an issue over which there appeared to be divisions within.
Hyderabad: Fifteen rebel MLAs belonging to Andhra Pradesh's ruling Congress and main opposition Telugu Desam Party are disqualified for voting in favour of a no-confidence motion moved by TRS against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government in March this year.
Sunday
Panaji: Ignoring perceived opposition from veteran L K Advani and some other senior leaders, BJP apoints Narendra Modi as its Election Campaign Committee Chairman for the 2014 polls, just short of making him the prime ministerial candidate.
New Delhi: The much talked-about NCTC seems to have got a quiet burial with Government making it clear that there were no plans to bring any law to set up the anti-terror body in the wake of strong opposition from non-Congress Chief Ministers.
Monday
New Delhi: BJP patriarch L K Advani resigns from all the party posts in protest against the elevation of Narendra Modi, stunning the organisation he had founded and nurtured and leaving its allies in the NDA in discomfort.
New Delhi: Shocked over the audacious Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh, political parties favours use of all legitimate means to "quell" armed insurgency, underlining that they cannot accept the "pernicious Maoist doctrine".
Tuesday
New Delhi: Ruling out any truck with either Congress or BJP, Odisha Chief Minister and BJD President Naveen Patnaik indicates that he was open to joining a Third Front or a Federal Front of regional parties before the Lok Sabha elections.
New Delhi: CBI books former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao and Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal for alleged cheating, graft and criminal misconduct in its 12th FIR in the coal blocks allocation scam, causing embarrassment to the ruling Congress.
Gurgaon: Former Union Minister and Congress veteran V C Shukla, who suffered bullet injuries in the deadly Naxal attack that eliminated Chhattisgarh party leadership over a fortnight ago, dies after developing multi-organ failure.
Wednesday
Tiruchirapalli (TN): Smart phones, emails and SMS seem to have pushed the humble telegram service to a quiet corner with the BSNL deciding to discontinue the 160-year-old telegraph service from July 15.
Patna/Kolkata: JD(U) appears to be heading towards parting ways with BJP over the elevation of Narendra Modi, a development that could also trigger formation of a new non-Congress, non-BJP front to fight the next Lok Sabha elections.
Thursday
New Delhi/Patna: BJP mounts hectic efforts to save its alliance with JD(U) which still appeared keen on breaking the coalition and move towards a Third Front of regional parties to fight the Lok Sabha polls.
New Delhi: Government puts on hold its plans to bring an Ordinance on Food Security in the face of opposition within and outside and decided to make another attempt to evolve a consensus to get it through in a special session of Parliament.
New Delhi: India has taken up with the US the reports that it was the fifth most tracked country by the American intelligence using a secret data-mining programme to monitor worldwide internet data and sought further details in this regard.
Friday
Patna/New Delhi: The ruling coalition in Bihar appears headed for a split with JD(U) saying that "problems" and "difficulties" have arisen in the wake of Narendra Modi's elevation in BJP.
New Delhi: Congress leader Digvijay Singh comes out in support of CBI in the agency's move against a senior Intelligence Bureau officer allegedly involved in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter killing case in Gujarat and claimed "there is clinching evidence against him".
New Delhi: Under fire for proposing a steep hike in natural gas prices, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily stuns the nation by saying that petroleum ministers are threatened by oil import lobbies to deter them from taking decisions that could cut the $160 billion import bill.
