Saturday
New Delhi: India reacts sharply to the action of the US authorities to tie a tracker on Indian students duped by a California-based "sham" university, terming it as "unwarranted" and demanded its removal.
Shimla/Dharamsala: Widening the ambit of the probe in connection with the recovery of huge foreign currency in the Karmapa's transit home, police and security agencies quiz his secretary for hours and searched the aide's residence and office besides that of a local businessman.
Sunday
New Delhi: Ending days of suspense, DMK President M Karunanidhi announces that Paatali Makkal Katchi (PMK) will be part of the party-led alliance for the Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu in May and that he will hold consultations with Congress top brass on seat-sharing arrangement.
Bangalore: India terms as "unacceptable" radio-tagging by US authorities of scores of Indian students duped by a "sham" university in California and demanded severe action against those responsible for this "inhuman act".
Monday
New Delhi: The DMK and the Congress decide to continue their seven-year-old alliance to contest the forthcoming Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu amid indications that the national party may do some hard bargaining for getting more seats for itself.
New Delhi: Setting 60 additional conditions, Environment Ministry grant conditional clearance for South Korean major Posco's $12 billion steel mill and captive port project in Orissa after putting it on hold.
Tuesday
Shahjahanur/Bareilly: 15 youths are killed and several others injured when they fell from the roof of two speeding trains crammed with job aspirants returning from an ITBP recruitment camp in Bareilly in UP. The incidents triggered violent protests as angry youths torched a train.
Hyderabad/New Delhi: A US diplomat court controversy calling ankle monitors tagged on some Indian students in California as "very hip and happening", evoking a strong protest from the Government after which she was forced to apologise.
Wednesday
New Delhi: A Raja, who as Telecom Minister had allegedly manipulated procedures in allocation of 2G Spectrum that has dented UPA government's image, is arrested along with two officials by CBI, a week before it has to file its final investigation report in the Supreme Court.
Mumbai: CBI, which has registered a case against former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan and 12 others in the Adarsh Housing Society scam, approached the state government seeking logistical support for the investigation.
Thursday
New Delhi/Bareilly: Government has ordered a high level probe into circumstances that led to violence and chaos at the recruitment drive in Bareilly by ITBP, which admitted it failed to estimate the massive turnout.
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh's green activism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cautions against return to the license permit raj system while favouring enforcement of the regulatory standards to prevent green damage.
Friday
Shimla/Dharamsala: Bank accounts of a Trust backed by Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje and its trustees have been frozen in connection with the probe into the seizure of a huge amount of foreign currency from a transit home of the Tibetan spiritual leader.
Gwalior (MP): An IAF MiG-21 'Bison' fighter aircraft crashes apparently due to an engine problem while on a routine sortie in Madhya Pradesh's Sheopur district but the pilot ejected safely.
