Digest of domestic news for March 6-12 week

Saturday

Mumbai: After Sachin Tendulkar and Mukesh Ambani, Shiv Sena supremo targets Governor K Sankaranarayanan on the Mumbai belongs to all issue, saying Congress "pensioners" who have lost touch with people's sentiments have come to Raj Bhawan.  

New Delhi: Affirming his commitment to women's empowerment, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says the Government is moving towards providing one-third reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state legislatures.  

Sunday  

Chandigarh: Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika molestation case, offers to undergo narco analysis test to clear what he claims were "lies" being spread against him by the family of the girl and that of her friend Aradhana.  

New Delhi: Stringent MCOCA is invoked against a self-styled Godman, recently caught here on charges of running a multi-crore sex racket, with police claiming he was "eyeing big donations" from foreign agencies, including Christian missionaries.  

Monday  

New Delhi: In an anti-climax, voting on women's reservation bill in the Rajya Sabha defers with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh likely to call an all-party meeting on the issue after Samajwadi Party and RJD threatened to withdraw support to the UPA government.

New Delhi: The Home Ministry issues an alert for Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore saying the three major cities could be targeted by terrorists.  

Tuesday  

Mumbai: Pakistan Army was involved in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and a serving Major General had supervised their training across the border at LeT camps, the prosecution tells a Special Court here.  

New Delhi: Accusing the government of trying to bulldoze the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, UPA ally Trinamool Congress says its members will not participate in the voting as it was not intimated about it.  

Wednesday  

Dharamsala: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama accuses China of trying to deliberately "annihilate Buddhism" in Tibet by conducting a campaign of patriotic re-education in monasteries there.  

New Delhi: India is looking at various options including paring down of the operations of its missions in Afghanistan in the wake of terror attacks on Indians there.  Thursday  

New Delhi: Food inflation eases a bit to 17.81 per cent during the last week of February, but may not soothe overall inflation as petrol and diesel prices have risen sharply following the hike in duty rates.

New Delhi: The BJP says summoning of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi by the Supreme Court-appointed SIT is a part of the legal process and the entire picture will be clear only when all facts are known.  

Friday

New Delhi: Government says it has the legitimate right to use as much force as necessary to regain control of areas dominated by the Maoists and makes it clear that talks with it could only take place if the ultras abjured violence  

New Delhi: Russian Federation Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expresses concern over terror groups operating from within Afghanistan and Pakistan, saying it is a threat to the entire world.