Saturday
New Delhi: Anxious to ensure there is no starvation death in the country, the Supreme Court directs the Centre to allocate additional five million tonne of food grains to 150 poorest districts of the country.
New Delhi: In the biggest-ever price increase of the fuel, state-owned oil companies hike petrol price by Rs 5 per litre with effect from midnight May 15.
Sunday
Muzaffarnagar: Mahendra Singh Tikait, a farmer leader from prosperous western Uttar Pradesh who spearheaded many a struggle uniting peasants in north India, dies due to bone cancer.
Bangalore: The BJP Government in Karnataka today plunged into a crisis with Governor HR Bhardwaj recommending dismissal of the Yeddyurappa ministry and imposition of President's Rule in the wake of Supreme Court quashing the disqualification of 11 party rebel MLAs.
Monday
New Delhi/Bangalore: The BJP launches a campaign against Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj demanding his immediate recall and knocked at the doors of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who gave an assurance that "nothing unconstitutional" will be done.
Chennai: On her first day in office, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa implements her major poll promises of free rice to ration card holders and BPL families, gold for 'mangalsutra' for girls for marriage and effects a top-level bureaucratic overhaul.
Tuesday
Mumbai/Agartala: In a huge embarrassment to India, a terror accused whose name figured in the list of 50 most wanted fugitives given to Pakistan has been found to be living in a suburb of Mumbai and Home Ministry took the blame for the goof-up.
Raipur: Five CRPF personnel are killed and three injured when a commander's escort vehicle was blown up in a landmine blast by Naxals in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh.
Wednesday
Lucknow: As many as 22 people, including eight members of a marriage party, are killed in duststorms and thunderstorms which uprooted trees and electric poles in several districts of Uttar Pradesh.
New Delhi: The Joint Parliamentary Committee on 2G spectrum scam begins examining the telecom policy pursued during the NDA rule as it sought to know the quantum of losses incurred during that period and decided to summon the then Attorney General Soli Sorabjee in this connection.
Thursday
New Delhi: In another major embarrassment for the Government, two more 'fugitives' in India's most wanted list handed over to Pakistan are found to be in the country, following which a CBI inspector was suspended and two of its senior officials transferred.
New Delhi: Amid the chorus that the next IMF chief should come from an emerging economy, India says it is watching the situation even as the country's likely candidate Montek Singh Ahluwalia said it is for the government to take a view on the issue.
Friday
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee, who ended the uninterrupted 34-year reign of the Left in West Bengal, makes history when she was sworn in as the first woman Chief Minister of the state at the head of a Trinamool Congress-Congress coalition government.
New Delhi: Stung by embarrassing goof ups in the '50 most wanted terrorists' list given to Pakistan, Government today directs probe agencies to undertake a thorough verification and correction process and it may also send a revised list.
