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Saturday
New Delhi: BJP leader Gopinath Munde was slapped with a showcause notice by the Election Commission which asked why he should not be disqualified for "suppressing and undervaluing" his poll campaign expenditure with his public admission of having spent Rs 8 crore for it.
New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi vowed to ensure 50% representation to women in AICC and other party wings as he held his first formal interaction with newly-appointed party office bearers, the team set up by him for the 2014 Lok Sabha poll.
Sunday
Shimla: The Congress retained the Mandi Lok Sabha seat when its candidate Pratibha Singh, wife of Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, trounced her BJP rival Jai Ram Thakur by a huge margin of over 1.36 lakh votes.
Ahmedabad: Seventeen containers on board a merchant vessel slipped off Okha West and began floating in sea prompting the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) to sound an alert for ships approaching Gulf of Kutch, a major corridor for crude oil imports.
Monday
Srinagar: Three militants and a policeman were killed and three security force personnel wounded in a fierce gunbattle in Tral area in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.
Srinagar: Protesters attacked an army school and made a vain bid to set it ablaze over the killing of two youths in alleged army firing which Chief Minister Omar Abdullah says negated attempts by Centre to bridge "emotional distance" between Jammu and Kashmir and rest of the country.
New Delhi: Government will seek financial aid from multilateral bodies like World Bank and Asian Development Bank for reconstruction and rehabilitation in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand, Finance Minister P Chidambaram says.
Tuesday
New Delhi: AirAsia top brass and Ratan Tata, their advisor, met several ministers here in an effort to speed up clearances for their proposed low-cost airline venture, saying they aimed to launch it by October.
New Delhi: India rejected a request for asylum by US whistleblower Edward Snowden made through its Mission in Moscow three days ago.
New Delhi: Hailing the successful launch of IRNSS-1A satellite, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described it as an "important milestone in the development of India's space programme".
Wednesday
New Delhi: Nine years after 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan was killed along with three others by Gujarat Police, CBI ruled out her involvement in terror activities and says she was accompanying Javed Sheikh on his trip to Ahmedabad as he was her employer.
New Delhi: The Centre asked all Naxal-affected states to intensify operations against ultras especially along inter- state borders as Maoists are carrying out 'spectacular attacks' to boost morale of the cadres.
New Delhi: Concerned over the "disconcerting" reports that its mission were being spied upon by American intelligence agencies, India says it will take up the matter with the US authorities.
Thursday
New Delhi: Apparently unhappy with PMO over issues related to the controversial Jet-Etihad deal, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh met UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and is understood to have raised the issue.
Pune: Ace discus thrower Vikas Gowda clinched the first gold for India as the home team won three medals on the second day to make their presence felt in the 20th Asian Athletics Championships.
Dehradun: Racing against time, the Uttarakhand government decided that those missing in the flood-ravaged state will be presumed dead if they remain untraced till July 15 and asked officials to remain vigilant in the wake of warning of heavy rains over the next two days.
Friday
New Delhi: Taking strong exception to CBI's alleged "witch-hunt" against its officials in Ishrat Jahan case, the Intelligence Bureau has lodged a strong protest with the Union Home Ministry, saying the investigating agency's move would only hurt the morale of the officers of IB.
New Delhi: The Ordinance on the ambitious food security scheme, described by Congress as a 'game-changer' and slammed by the Opposition as a gimmick before Lok Sabha elections, received Presidential assent.
New Delhi: CBI does not have any tapped conversation which shows that former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal was involved in or had any knowledge of the Rs 10 crore cash-for-post bribery scandal, which prompted the agency not to make him an accused in the case, sources say.
