Domestic news digest of the week

Saturday

New Delhi:From Rashtrapati Bhavan to small homes, luxury hotels to prominent landmark.

Sunday

New Delhi: Setting a positive tone for Home Secretary-level meeting here, Pakistan Interior Secretary Chaudhary Qamar Zaman says such efforts would enhance peaceful relations between the two neighbours and that his side would look for an easier and faster visa regime.

Monday

New Delhi: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit virtually rejects the Shunglu Committee report which indicts her for irregularities in several CWG projects and conveys to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh her government's view that the findings of the panel are "unfair" and "inconsistent".

New Delhi: Parliament's Public Accounts Committee has called leading industrialists, including Ratan Tata and Anil Ambani, and corporate lobbyist Niira Radia to appear before the panel in connection with the 2G spectrum scam which it is probing.

Tuesday

New Delhi: Former telecom minister A Raja, along with some corporate czars and telecom companies Swan Telecom and Loop Telecom will be prosecuted on charges of cheating, forgery and corruption in the 2G spectrum scam and CBI will file an 80,000-page chargesheet on April 2, the agency tells Supreme Court.

New Delhi:Government faces the ire of the Supreme Court for opposing formation of a Special Investigating Team (SIT) to probe the case of black money as the court says it was needed because the agencies involved in the three-year probe have not gone into the source of the money.

Wednesday

Mohali: With the high-voltage cricket World Cup semi-final providing the backdrop, India and Pakistan seeks to give a push for "genuine normalisation" of their ties with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his counterpart Yusuf Raza Gilani agreeing that it could happen only in an atmosphere free of terror and violence.

Mohali/New Delhi/Mumbai: From Mohali to Mumbai -- frenzied celebrations erupts across the country as Team India defeated arch-rivals Pakistan to enter the cricket World Cup final, with people bursting firecrackers, distributing sweets and dancing in the streets waving the tricolour.

Thursday

New Delhi: To boost FDI inflows, government provides greater flexibility to Indian firms to raise overseas capital and scrapped norms that required a foreign company to obtain its domestic JV partner's approval for making investments in same field outside the joint venture.

New Delhi: India's population is now pegged at 1.21 billion, an increase of more than 181 million in the last 10 years, according to the provisional 2011 Census report released here.

Friday

New Delhi: The CBI tells a Delhi court that the alleged cash transaction between D B Realty and Chennai-based Green House Promoters which is under probe in the 2G scam "might have link" to the death of Sadiq Batcha, a close aide of arrested former Telecom Minister A Raja.

New Delhi: Good news for the country in combating AIDS as a United Nations report says India has registered a 50% dip in number of new cases of HIV infections in this decade.