Saturday
Mangalore: A Boeing 737 plane of Air India's low budget carrier overshoots the airport runway here and burst into flames killing 158 persons but eight others survived.
Mumbai: A naval officer becomes the first Indian ever to circumnavigate the globe solo on a sail boat when he steered into the Mumbai harbour after his arduous effort spanning a little over nine months.
Sunday
Bangalore: India's first indigenous combat helicopter capable of participating in anti-Naxal and counter terrorism operations today took to the skies, marking its first official flight at the HAL airport here.
Jammu: Violating the ceasefire, Pakistani troops target six forward posts along the LoC in Pooch district with mortars and other heavy calibre weapons, leading to a major exchange of fire between the two sides which leaves a jawan critically injured.
Mangalore: Investigators retrieve the 'Black Box' from the wreckage of the ill-fated Air India Express which is expected to throw light on what went wrong in Saturday's crash that left 158 people dead.
Monday
Ranchi: BJP withdraws its support to the nearly five-month-old JMM-led government in Jharkhand reducing it to a minority, following which Chief Minister Shibu Soren was asked by the Governor to prove his majority on the floor of the Assembly by May 31.
New Delhi: Into his seventh year in office, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rules out retirement since his tasks remain "unfinished" but offered to make way for a younger leader if the Congress party wanted that.
Tuesday
New Delhi: The Supreme Court stays the death sentence awarded to underworld don Aftab Ahmed Ansari for the attack on the American Centre in Kolkata in 2002.
Chandigarh: Disgraced ex-Haryana DGP SPS Rathore is jailed after he was arrested for the first time shortly after a sessions court enhanced his prison term to 18 months for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra--who later committed suicide--20 years back.
Wednesday
New Delhi: A total of 13,104 candidates clear the prestigious IIT-Joint Entrance Examination 2010 with Anumula Jithendar Reddy from Madras zone topping the test.
New Delhi: The 33-hour flash strike by a section of Air India employees is called off following a Delhi High Court order, but the management cracks down on strike leaders sacking 15 and suspending 13 others.
Thursday
New Delhi: An employee of Navy is arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan and police claims to have recovered from him some "secret and sensitive" documents like photograph of Hindan Air Base and map of Meerut Cantonment.
New Delhi: Three Italians are detained in Mumbai and Pune this morning after 24 cartridges were found from a room in a 5-star hotel near Indira Gandhi International airport where they were staying.
New Delhi: In an unprecedented action, Air India sacks another 41 employees, taking the number of staffers whose services have been terminated for going on an "illegal" strike to 58 even as it de-recognised two unions which led the stir.
Friday
Jhargram (WB): At least 76 passengers of a Mumbai-bound express train are killed when Maoists derailed it early today with five of the 13 coaches that jumped the tracks also being hit by an oncoming goods train.
Hyderabad: Congress MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is forced to abandon his tour of Telangana region after he was taken into preventive custody at a railway station in Nalgonda district following violence and police firing that leaves 16 people injured.
