Major national news for the week
Saturday
Srinagar: Defying prohibitory orders, hundreds of people take part in the funeral of the 17-year-old youth, who was killed during a clash between demonstrators and police, even as skirmishes between protesters and police left 35 persons, including 15 policemen, injured across the city.
Bangalore: Police have named suspected terrorist Abdul Nasar Madani as one of the accused in the 2008 serial blasts here that claimed the life of a woman.
Ghaziabad: Protesting Jat leaders, who had stopped water supply from here to Delhi demanding reservation in government jobs, suspend their agitation after talks with government officials.
Sunday New Delhi: Amid a debate on whether foreign law firms should be allowed entry, government has said minds should not be shut to "big ideas" and asserted that fears of Indian lawyers would be addressed before taking a decision.
Kolkata: Battling charges over escape of Warren Anderson days after the Bhopal tragedy, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today sought to give a new spin on the issue, saying Arjun Singh took the decision on then Union Carbide CEO's exit keeping in view the law and order situation.
Monday
New Delhi: Seventy seven Indian students and a professor, who were trapped in Kyrgyzstan's southern Osh city wracked by ethnic violence, have been safely evacuated.
Lucknow: At least 25 people, mostly women and girls, drowned while around 17 others went missing when an overcrowded boat capsized in Ganga river in Ballia district, nearly 400 kms from herel.
Tuesday
Ludhiana: A MiG-21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashes near Halwara air base in Punjab, but the pilot bailed out safely.
Jhargram: CBI arrests a leader of a Maoist-backed organisation for alleged role in derailment of Jnaneswari Express last month that left nearly 150 people dead and sought permission from court for invoking the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) in the case.
Wednesday
Guwahati/New Delhi: The government has agreed in principle to start peace talks with the banned ULFA and former Intelligence Bureau chief P C Haldar will act as interlocutor, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.
Lucknow: Nearly six months after his expulsion from Samajwadi Party, Amar Singh announces launch of Akhil Bharitya Lok Manch with himself as President and actress-politician Jaya Prada his deputy.
New Delhi: With questions continuing to be raised over the exit of former Union Carbid Chief Warren Anderson in the wake of Bhopal gas leak tragedy, Congress today blamed it on "systemic" failure and reject any involvement of the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Thursday
Jaipur: Noted lawyer and BJP candidate Ram Jethmalani and Union Commerce Minister Anand Sharma are elected in the Rajya Sabha polls in Rajasthan while a Congress-supported Independent candidate was defeated.
New Delhi: Union Carbide Chief Warren Anderson is given a "safe passage" in 1984 following a decision taken in a day by the Home Ministry and the Cabinet Secretary, the then Foreign Secretary M K Rasgotra disclosed today, adding a new twist to the raging controversy over the Bhopal gas tragedy.
Friday
New Delhi: Ahead of the meeting of the foreign secretaries next week, India hands over the eleventh dossier to Pakistan containing response to points raised by Islamabad over the Mumbai terror strikes and providing "additional information" on those involved in the attacks, including JuD chief Hafiz Saeed.
Kohima: The over 60-day economic blockade of two highways in Manipur was temporarily suspended by Naga students today, giving a breather to the people who faced an acute crisis of essentials.