Saturday
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warns the cancer of terrorism would consume South Asia if left unchecked and pressed all countries to develop a culture of resolving problems themselves, a comment seen as directed at Pakistan.
Aligarh: Winding up his four-day 'padyatra' in the battle against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today accused her government of acquiring farmers' lands for golf courses and racing tracks and firing upon poor farmers when they protest.
Sunday
Fatehpur (UP): At least 38 passengers were killed and about 210 injured when 15 bogies of a speeding Delhi-bound Kalka Mail derailed here today, the second major train mishap in a week in Uttar Pradesh.
New Delhi: Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium, appearing for government in 2G-related cases in Supreme Court in which the government has often drawn flak, tonight kept his options open on his resignation which he said was done to protect the "dignity" of office.
Monday
Kolkata/New Delhi: A defiant Minister of State for Railways Mukul Roy refuses to heed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's directive to visit the site of derailment in Assam, saying it is the PM who is incharge of the Ministry and not him.
New Delhi: The government allows exports of one million tonnes of non-basmati rice, lifting an over three-year old ban, in the wake of overflowing godowns.
Tuesday
Hyderabad: Five ministers from Telangana region meet Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy after a lot of persuasion by state Congress chief and Transport Minister Botsa Satyanarayana, but they rejected his plea to withdraw their resignations.
New Delhi: Controversial Jairam Ramesh is elevated to Cabinet status and shifted from the high-profile Environment Ministry and Veerappa Moily replaced by Salman Khursheed as Law Minister in a substantive reshuffle of the Union Council of Ministers in which several ministers continued to hold additional charge of some key portfolios.
Wednesday
Mumbai: Terror strikes Mumbai when three near simultaneous blasts ripped through crowded areas killing at least 21 people and injuring 141 in a grim reminder of the deadly 2008 Mumbai attack.
New Delhi/Mumbai: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accepts the resignation of a sulking Union Minister Gurudas Kamat a day after he was allocated independent charge of Drinking Water and Sanitation ministry.
Thursday
Mumbai/New Delhi: Investigators scour through CCTV footages at the three serial blasts sites in Mumbai in their hunt for the culprits and were also looking at whether a suicide bomber was involved in the terror attack.
New Delhi: Veteran Congress leader ND Tiwari, facing paternity suit of a man claiming to be his biological son, filed a 'personal affidavit' before the Delhi High Court saying no person can be compelled to give blood samples for DNA test against his will.
Friday
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil says the "war against blackmoney has to be addressed both domestically and through cross-border measures" and asked the Income Tax department to track down and prosecute blackmoney hoarders taking shelter abroad.
Sriharikota (AP): Scripting yet another success in its space programme, India today launched its latest communication satellite GSAT-12 onboard indigenous PSLV-C17 rocket in a flawless mission from the spaceport here.
