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Saturday
Ayodhya: With an eye on the Lok Sabha elections, BJP rakes up the Ayodhya Ram temple issue in a bid to boost the party's morale in Uttar Pradesh where good performance in the past had helped it capture power at the Centre.
Sunday
Gaya (Bihar): Terror strikes one of the holiest Buddhist shrines, the Mahabodhi Temple, and other places in Bihar's pilgrimage town of Bodh Gaya, with suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives simultaneously triggering nine low intensity bombs leaving two monks injured.
Monday
New Delhi: India and China soon to have a hotline between their service headquarters for avoiding and handling situations such as a possible border flare-up.
Tuesday
Bhopal: Disgraced former Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister Raghavji is arrested from a flat found locked from outside here following sodomy allegations levelled against him by his domestic servant.
Leh: In another incursion, Chinese troops intrudes into the Chumar sector in Ladakh--the same area which had sparked off tensions in April--and smashed some bunkers besides cutting wires of cameras installed at the border posts.
Wednesday
Dehradun: The number of missing in last month's floods and landslides has been put at 5360 by the Uttarakhand government which announces that pilgrimage to the three dhaams Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamunotri will resume by September 30.
New Delhi: China proposes freezing of infrastructure development along the border under a new pact but it is set to be rejected by India which is in the process of building infrastructure along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Bodh Gaya: As the NIA begins its probe into the serial blasts in this temple town, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde does not rule out the involvement of three to four persons in the attack.
Thursday
Mumbai/New Delhi: The family members of Ishrat Jahan, the 19-year-old college student killed by Gujarat police in a "fake" encounter in 2004, claimed threat to their lives and wrote to the Centre demanding adequate security.
Bodh Gaya/New Delhi: The remaining two persons under detention in connection with the Bodh Gaya serial blasts were released for want of evidence, as investigators struggled for a breakthrough in its probe, four days after the terror attack.
New Delhi: Notwithstanding China's objections to Indian oil exploration projects, Vietnam asserts India has the right to pursue "exploration and exploitation work" in South China Sea as they were within Vietnamese "exclusive economic zone".
Friday
Mumbai: Veteran Bollywood actor Pran, who plays the dreaded villain and lovable character with elan in hits like 'Milan', 'Madhumati', 'Bobby', 'Zanjeer' and 'Ram Aur Shyam', passed away at a suburban hospital here at the age of 93.
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi kicks up a political storm by saying he had done "absolutely the right thing" during the 2002 riots and describing himself as a "Hindu nationalist".
New Delhi: A decision on the vexed issue of Telangana is deferred with the Congress announcing that a final call in the matter will be taken by the party Working Committee.
