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Saturday
Jammu: Arson and communal tension spreads to Jammu and Rajouri districts of Jammu and Kashmir after which curfew was imposed there even as fresh violence erupted in curfew-bound Kishtwar leaving three persons injured.
New Delhi/Islamabad: Pakistan lodges a protest with India over the stopping of the Lahore-bound bus near Chehertha, 20 km from the Attari border by Youth Congress activists.
New Delhi: Close on the heels of the crackdown on sand mining mafia by IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, a Central panel has found "rampant, unscientific and illegal" mining going on at various locations in the Gautam Budh Nagar District along the Yamuna River in Uttar Pradesh
Jammu: Amid heightened tension on the border over the killing of five Indian soldiers, Pakistani troops violate the ceasefire yet again by firing 7000 rounds of heavy ammunition and mortar shells for seven hours at Indian posts along the LoC in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Sunday
Jammu: Curfew is clamped in five more districts in Jammu region and Army stages flag marches as the administration declared violence-rocked Kishtwar out of bounds for politicians, detaining BJP leader Arun Jaitley at the airport here and sending him back to Delhi.
Jammu: Violating the ceasefire thrice in the last two days, Pakistani troops opens fire at forward posts along the international border in Jammu and Kashmir, seriously injuring a Border Security Force (BSF) jawan.
Monday
Jammu: Amid escalating tensions, Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire yet again -the third breach of the day and seventh in the last three days-targeting Indian forward posts along the International Border in Poonch and Samba districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
Jammu/Srinagar: Under fire for his alleged role in the Kishtwar communal flare-up, Minister of State for Home Sajad Kitchloo resigns even as fresh clashes erupted in the curfew-bound district leaving four persons including two policemen injured.
Kochi: India launches its first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, joining the elite club of nations with the capability of designing and building a warship of this size and capability.
Tuesday
New Delhi: Parliament is rocked by allegations of illegality in land deals involving Robert Vadra with BJP going on the offensive demanding a SIT probe besides a discussion on the floor of the House which was rejected by the Congress.
New Delhi: India gives a clear indication that killing of its five soldiers on LoC by Pakistan Army will delay the Indo-Pak Secretary-level talks, asserting that dialogue can only proceed in an environment free of violence and terror.
Wednesday
Gurgaon (Har): Dilip Singh Judeo, former Union minister and Chhattisgarh dies at a Gurgaon hospital where he was being treated for liver and kidney infection. He was 64.
New Delhi: In a tit-for-tat, Parliament rejects the Pakistan National Assembly resolution on the ceasefire issue, saying the violations along the LoC were done by the Pakistani army and dismissed as "absolutely baseless" the allegations against Indian army.
Mumbai: In a huge setback to the Indian Navy, a conventional submarine explodes after a fire on board and sank in the dockyard here early today in which 18 personnel, including three officers, may have been killed.
New Delhi: With onion prices soaring, Government assures the state governments that it would find out a solution to contain it.
Thursday
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launches a veiled attack on Narendra Modi saying there can be no place for "narrow and sectarian ideologies" in a modern, progressive and secular country as they divide society and weaken democracy.
Jammu: Using heavy calibre guns, Indian Army retaliates strongly after Pakistani troops resorts to unprovoked and indiscriminate firing with rocket and mortar shell attacks on LoC posts in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch sector that injured three Army jawans and a civilian.
New Delhi/Mumbai: Narendra Modi's no holds barred attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Independence Day draws an indirect rebuke from senior BJP leader L K Advani who also got the backing of key NDA ally Shiv Sena.
Friday
Mumbai: In a triple whammy, benchmark Sensex and rupee goes into a freefall while gold surges as fears of a return to capital control regime haunted investors who remained unconvinced that there would be no further curbs.
Octerio BoP (Jammu): Against the backdrop of escalating ceasefire violations by Pakistan and snipping incidents along the International Border, Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami reviews security situation in Jammu frontier.
Mumbai/New Delhi: Naval divers find bodies of two naval personnel from ill-fated submarine INS Sindhurakshak which exploded and sank at the Mumbai dockyard early Wednesday.
