Saturday
Lucknow: Akhilesh Yadav, who scripted spectacular success in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections with an image makeover for Samajwadi Party, will be the new and youngest Chief Minister of the state, representing a generational shift in its politics.
New Delhi: Magsaysay award-winner 'Waterman' Rajendra Singh and two others quit the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh- chaired National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), protesting the government's "negligence" of the river.
Sunday
Hubli: Smarting under the BJP high command's decision not to re-induct him, former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today blew hot and cold, first saying he would not campaign for the party in the Chickmaglur Lok Sabha bypoll and later declaring that there were no groups in the party.
New Delhi/Rameswaram (TN): 16 Tamil Nadu fishermen were injured in an alleged mid-sea attack by Sri Lankan naval personnel, prompting India to take up the issue with Colombo, which said it is investigating the incident.
Monday:
New Delhi: Congress MP Vijay Bahuguna, son of late leader Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna, will be the next Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, the AICC announced ending days of suspense over the claimant to the top job in the hill state.
New Delhi: The Centre tells the Supreme Court that it is probing into the allegations that former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan and his relatives had amassed disproportionate assets during his tenure as judge and submitted a probe status report to it in a sealed envelop.
Tuesday:
New Delhi: Census 2011 data on houses, household amenities and assets released said 49.8% Indian households defecate in open but in sharp contrast 63.2% households own a telephone connection, 53.2% of them a mobile.
New Delhi: Government comes under intense pressure from Tamil Nadu's political parties in Parliament to support a resolution in the UN against Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes but it remained non-committal on its stand pending the final wordings of the document.
Dehradun/New Delhi: Congress MP Vijay Bahuguna is sworn in as Chief Minister of Uttarakhand although the Congress faced a revolt by another MP Harish Rawat, who is said to have offered to resign from the Union government.
Wednesday:
Kolkata: On a day of dramatic developments,TMC seeks the removal of its seniormost nominee in the Union Cabinet Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi hours after he proposed a hike in railway passenger fares to net Rs 4,000 crore extra a year in his Railway budget plunging the UPA government in an unusual political crisis.
New Delhi/Indore: The probe in the Shehla Masood murder case intensifies with Dhruv Narayan Singh, a BJP MLA from Madhya Pradesh, being subjected to a lie- detection test after which he refuted allegations of his involvement in the killing.
Thursday:
New Delhi: Homosexuality is not a mental and psychological disorder and it is a normal form of sexuality, gay rights activists argued before the Supreme Court while pleading for decriminalisation of gay sex.
Lucknow: Akhilesh Yadav, whose campaign helped steered the Samajwadi Party gain an absolute majority in the elections, is sworn in as the youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh but a surprise inclusion in his Cabinet was the controversial MLA Raja Bhaiya.
Friday:
New Delhi: The Budget for 2012-13 hikes excise duty and service tax by 2 per cent across-the- board to raise Rs 45,940 crore and offered marginal relief to individuals in income tax, stoking fears of adding to inflation but contained no big ticket reforms.
New Delhi: Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 Israeli diplomat's car bombing case, has moved a Delhi alleging that he is being harassed in custody and is being forced to "confess a crime he never committed."
