Digest of domestic news for the week

Team Anna to form party and fight 2014 Lok Sabha polls, but Anna will not contest elections

Saturday

Kokrajhar (Assam): Terming the largescale ethnic riots in Assam as a "blot on the nation", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says a sense of security should be instilled among people in all affected areas and announced a Rs 300- crore relief package for violence-hit survivors.

Kokrajhar: The toll in the clashes between minority migrants and Bodo tribals rises to 53 in Assam as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited worst-hit Kokrajhar district.

Sunday

Ahmedabad / New Delhi: Congress is left red-faced with party MP from Maharashtra Vijay Darda describing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as a "tiger" while praising his style of functioning.

 

New Delhi: Anna Hazare joins his three close aides in their indefinite fast while his team attacked yoga guru Ramdev for sharing dais with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, describing the BJP leader as a "murderer of humanity".

Balasore (Odisha): In a bid to enhance indigenous missile manufacturing capabilities, India successfully test-fires the 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the integrated test range at Chandipur off Odisha coast.

Monday

New Delhi: North India suffers its worst ever power failure in 10 years, paralysing normal life in eight states, including the national capital, for over 15 hours.

New Delhi: Delhi government accuses Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab of overdrawing power from the Northern Grid which led to its collapse, triggering severe power cuts in the capital, and asked the Union Power Minister to direct the states to follow discipline while drawing power.

Mehsana (Guj): Twenty-one people are sentenced to life bya special court after they are held guilty of attempt to murder and arson in a post-Godhra riots case in which a frenzied mob killed 11 members of a single family including four children and five women.

Tuesday

New Delhi: In the worst ever power crisis, over half of the country's population in 21 states go without electricity for several hours today as three major transmission grids failed, bringing northern, eastern and north-eastern regions to a grinding halt.

New Delhi: In a much-anticipated but limited reshuffle in the Union Cabinet, P Chidambaram is made the Finance Minister and his portfolio of Home Ministry is given to Sushilkumar Shinde.

Wednesday

Mumbai: Four coordinated low-intensity explosions strike the busy arterial J M road in the heart of Pune raising the spectre of terror.

Allahabad: On his first visit to Uttar Pradesh after the assembly poll drubbing, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi flays the health care scenario in the state, pitched for protecting migrants against ill-treatment and interacted with students and slum dwellers.

New Delhi: The CBI has objected to a proposal in the Lokpal Bill which gives police powers to members of the proposed anti-graft watchdog, contending it was against the established jurisprudence that empowers the investigation agency to take a final call after conclusion of probe.

Thursday

New Delhi: With government refusing to blink, Team Anna decides to end its indefinite fast tomorrow and take a plunge into politics.

Pune / New Delhi: Wrist watches were used to trigger the explosives in the Pune coordinated serial blasts as evidence gathered by investigators appear to point to the involvement of banned home grown terror group Indian Mujahideen (IM).

Friday

New Delhi: After a successful moon mission, the Union Cabinet gives the go-ahead to the launch of satellite next year to the Mars.

New Delhi: Taking the political plunge, Team Anna moves towards forming a party to fight the 2014 Lok Sabha polls but Anna Hazare made it clear that he will not launch a party or contest elections.