Saturday
Chennai: In an apparent act of brinkmanship, the DMK decides to pull out of the Congress-led Government at the Centre after talks between the two parties on seat-sharing for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections failed.
Mumbai: The home of 'Slumdog Millionaire' child star Rubina Ali and her awards won for the Oscar-winning film was destroyed in a major fire that raged through a slum in suburban Bandra in which at least 21 people were injured and rendering over 2,000 people including her family homeless.
Sunday
Balasore (Orissa): Fortifying its defence, India successfully test-fired indigenously developed interceptor missile, capable of destroying incoming hostile ballistic missile, from a test range off Orissa coast.
Chennai/New Delhi: The DMK and Congress were locked in a battle of attrition, a day after the regional party announced pulling out its ministers from the UPA government with neither party making any moves to break the deadlock in the aftermath of failure of seat-sharing talks for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.
Monday
Mumbai/Pune: Stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, accused of massive money laundering and tax evasion, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate which carried out multi-city searches at his Pune home and his associates' premises, cracking the whip to meet tomorrow's Supreme Court deadline.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court rules that Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug, who is living in vegetative state in Mumbai's KEM Hospital for 37 years, is not brain dead as the medical report suggests "she has some brain activity".
Tuesday
New Delhi: A section of Air India pilots, who threatened to go on strike demanding pay parity and better working conditions, defers their agitation till March 15 following tripartite talks with the carrier's management and Chief Labour Commissioner here.
New Delhi: A second-year degree student is shot dead by an unidentified person near her college in south Delhi in broad daylight with police suspecting that a stalker was behind the incident.
Wednesday
New Delhi: The US says it was in India's strategic interest to sign the Communication Interoperability and Security Memorandum of Agreement (CISMOA) as it will get access to advanced technology.
Mumbai: Slamming the Enforcement Directorate over its handling of the Hasan Ali Khan money laundering case, a local court observes it was not able to make out even a single case against the businessman to seek his custody and asked the agency to do its "homework".
Thursday
Hyderabad: The ongoing movement for Telangana state reaches a new peak with the success of "Million March" programme in Hyderabad.
New Delhi: About 15,400 Indians, out of the initial presence of 18,000 in strife-torn Libya, are back in the country as 'Operation Safe Homecoming' rapidly draws towards a close, the government said.
Friday
Chennai: Racing against time to file the charge sheet on March 31 in connection with the 2G spectrum scam, the CBI today questioned DMK MP Kanimozhi, daughter of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, and his wife Dayalu Ammal at the DMK headquarters here.
