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SATURDAY

New Delhi: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence slaps the charges of FEMA and Customs Act violation against Pakistani Sufi Singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and his manager Maroof in connection with recovery of huge undeclared foreign currency from them at the airport here.

Jalandhar: LT Gen (Retd) SK Sahni, who suffers the ignominy of becoming the first General-level officer to be cashiered and given imprisonment in a ration scam by a General Court Martial (GCM), will now have his fate decided by the Army chief.

SUNDAY

Mumbai/Pune: Chinks have started appearing in the elite Maharashtra ATS' probe into the year-old German bakery blast case as police claims a mobile phone alarm was used to cause the explosion while forensic experts are yet to decipher the triggering mechanism.

 

New Delhi: The birdflu outbreak in Agartala in Tripura gets confirmed to be the highly virulent H5 strain which if transmitted to humans can be deadly.

MONDAY

New Delhi: A Delhi court defers till March 4 pronouncement of its judgement on the CBI's plea to drop the case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the two-decade-old Bofors payoff case.

Mumbai: Nine months after he was handed down death penalty by the trial court, the Bombay High Court upholds the sentence of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab for the "brutal and diabolical" 26/11 Mumbai attacks aimed at "destabilising" the government.

TUESDAY

New Delhi: Giving in to opposition demands, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces government's decision to set up a JPC into the 2G spectrum scam, saying the country could "ill afford" disruption of the crucial Budget session of Parliament.

Ahmedabad: 31 people are convicted and 63 others, including the main accused Maulvi Umarji, are acquitted by a special court here in the 2002 Godhra train burning incident that left 59 people dead and triggered violence in Gujarat that had claimed the lives of over 1200 people, mainly Muslims.

WEDNESDAY

New Delhi: Former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Secretary General Lalit Bhanot and OC Director General V K Verma get arrested by the CBI in connection with alleged irregularities in the Rs 107 crore deal inked with a Swiss timing firm.

Deoband (UP): Darul Uloom's controversial Vice Chancellor Maulana Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi, who had invited the wrath of conservatives by his praise of Narendra Modi, appears to have earned a reprieve from the seminary's powerful Majlis-e-Shura which did not accept his resignation.

THURSDAY

New Delhi: Tata chief Ratan Tata tells the Supreme Court that he was not satisfied with the "lackadaisical approach" of the government in investigating the leakage of the tapes of telephonic conversation of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with him and others.

New Delhi: Two top executives of Tata group --Chairman of the group's realty and infrastructure arm R Krishna Kumar and its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Sanjay G Ubale -- are questioned by the CBI in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam.

FRIDAY

New Delhi: Former Telecom minister Arun Shourie questioned by the CBI during which he alleged that his successor Dayanidhi Maran had tweaked the TRAI guidelines in 2005 to benefit some operators.

New Delhi: For the third successive year, the Railway Budget for 2011-12 spares the passengers of any increase in fares and proposed no hike in freight rates while introducing 56 new trains, including nine non-stop Duronto trains and three Shatabdis

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First Published: Feb 26 2011 | 1:19 PM IST

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