Domestic news of the week

Saturday

Bangalore: A combative B S Yeddyurappa rules out his resignation over the grant of sanction for his prosecution by Governor H R Bhardwaj, as BJP enforces a bandh in Karnataka against his action following which a criminal complaint was filed against the Chief Minister.

Shillong: Lt Gen P K Rath, the senior-most serving officer to be convicted for corruption,has been given a sentence of severe reprimand and two-year loss of seniority by an Army Court Martial before which he broke down while the verdict was being pronounced.

Sunday

New Delhi/Colombo: India strongly and unequivocally condemnes the killing of another fisherman allegedly by Sri Lanka Navy, saying that use of force must be "eschewed" in all such situations even as Colombo rejected as "baseless" the charge that its personnel were involved.

New Delhi/Srinagar: Determined to hoist the tricolour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Republic Day, BJP accuses Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Omar Abdullah government of "surrendering" to separatists and displaying "disproportionate and panic reaction".

Monday

Pune: Legendary Hindustani vocalist Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, whose powerful and penetrating voice transcended the mundane and transported his audience into the sublime, dies in a city hospital after a prolonged illness.

Jammu/New Delhi: On a day of high drama, senior BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Ananth Kumar were stopped at Jammu airport ahead of the party's march to Srinagar to hoist the tricolour on Republic Day and later taken out of the state to Punjab by road.

Tuesday

Ghaziabad: Rajesh Talwar, father of murdered teenager Aarushi,has been attacked and injured outside a court by a 30-year-old man, who had earlier allegedly stabbed former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, a convict in the Ruchika molestation case.

New Delhi: Unfazed by opposition attacks and questions from Supreme Court, Government maintained that it cannot disclose information received from foreign entities on black money held by Indians abroad because of absence of  legal framework.

Wednesday

Nashik/Mumbai: Eleven persons have been arrested in the murder of Additional District Collector Yashwant Sonawane who was burnt alive by suspected members of local oil mafia, as the official's family and BJP demand a CBI probe into the incident.

Srinagar: A number of BJP activists and leaders of separatist groups including JKLF have been arrested for violating prohibitory orders as Jammu and Kashmir government foils their plans to hoist flag at Lal Chowk, which was turned into a fortress.

Thursday

Dharamsala: Huge amount of foreign currency has been seized during raids at a transit home of 17th Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje at Sidhbari.

New Delhi: Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist Mohd Afzal Guru, awaiting death penalty in Tihar Jail following his conviction for plotting terror attack on Parliament in 2001, moves the Supreme Court for shifting him to a jail in Jammu and Kashmir.

Friday

New Delhi: Government subsidy to Muslims for Haj pilgrimage or similar benefits for other religions is not violative of the Constitution, the Supreme Court rules.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court orders the Orissa government to maintain status quo on acquisition of 6,000 hectares of land for setting up an international university by UK-based Vedanta group in the holy city of Puri.