Domestic news of the week

Saturday

New Delhi: China's demand that an event at which the Dalai Lama was scheduled to speak here next week be cancelled led to the sudden indefinite postponement of the Sino-Indian border talks which were scheduled to begin on Monday.

New Delhi: Chiefs of beleaguered Indian private airlines met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his intervention to help the carriers tide over the deep financial crisis and were assured that "legitimate" grievances would be considered.

Sunday

Karimnagar (AP): Top Maoist leader Malojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishenji, who was killed in an encounter with security forces in West Bengal, was cremated at his Native village, as the CPI (Maoist) gave a two-day Bharat Bandh call from December 4.

New Delhi: Political heavyweights kept away from a Buddhist meet which led to diplomatic tensions between India and China and an indefinite postponement of their border talks.

Monday

New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram: Amid protests by parties across Kerala, the state government eyed Centre's intervention in settling the vexed Mullaperiyar issue assuring continued supply of water to Tamil Nadu if a new dam is allowed to be built near the existing structure.

Imphal: The United Naga Council lifts its 100-day economic blockade on the Manipur side of two national highways without any condition but with a caveat that agitation would be re-launched if the government did not make an 'alternative arrangement' for Nagas in the state.

New Delhi: In a huge relief to the second batch of accused in the 2G case, DMK MP Kanimozhi and four others are granted bail by the

Delhi High Court, taking cue from the Supreme Court order last week.

Tuesday

New Delhi/Thiruavanathapuram: As political parties and voluntary groups in Kerala intensified protests on Mullaperiyar Dam issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh steps in and meets four delegations from Tamil Nadu and Kerala, indicating that a meeting of Chief Ministers of both states would be convened soon to to find an amicable solution.

New Delhi: Anti-Naxal operations are set to be intensified in affected states with the induction of 2,000 newly trained BSF personnel and seven new helicopters.

Wednesday

New Delhi: A pan-India terror module has been busted with the arrest of six suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives including a Pakistani by the Delhi Police which claim to have got vital leads in terror cases like German Bakery blast and shoot out at Delhi's Jama Masjid.

Ralegan Siddhi: As he prepares to launch yet another anti-corruption agitation, Anna Hazare opens a new front against government, attacking it for allowing FDI in retail sector which he said was not in the country's interest.

Thursday

New Delhi: Union Cabinet finalises and approves India's stand at the ongoing UN Climate Conference in Durban.

Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi: As the Mullaperiyar dam row escalates, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says nothing should be said or done to create "undue Alarm" while Tamil Nadu accused Kerala of whipping up a 'fear psychosis'.

Friday

New Delhi: India is working to establish a mechanism of direct contact with the navies of various countries, including China to avoid military conflicts, a possibility of which had arisen recently in South China Sea.

Jodhpur: A charge sheet is filed in a court here against three accused arrested in Bhanwari Devi disappearance case in which the CBI said it is probing the role of sacked Rajasthan Minister Mahipal Maderna.