Apr 1: Pitching for a nuclear weapon free world, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh proposes a global convention for 'no-first-use' of atomic arsenal to make the world a safer place.
Apr 2: In its first major action in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam, the Enforcement Directorate attaches assets worth Rs 60 crore belonging to former Uttar Pradesh Minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and others under money laundering laws. (Uttar Pradesh NRHM Scam is an alleged corruption scandal in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, in which top politicians and bureaucrats are alleged to have siphoned off a massive sum from the National Rural Health Mission, a central government program meant to improve health care delivery in rural areas. At least five people are said to have been murdered in an attempt to coverup large-scale irregularities. NRHM scam came to light after two Chief Medical Officers (the top health functionary of the district) were successively murdered in wealthier localities of the state capital, Lucknow in 2010)
Apr 3: Aam Aadmi Party vows to bring an effective Jan Lokpal in manifesto released that also promised to bring down the minimum age to contest polls from 25 to 21 besides carrying out reforms in electoral and justice delivery system.
Apr 3: Union Textiles Minister K Sambasiva Rao resigns from the Union Cabinet protesting bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, fuelling speculation that he may join BJP.
Apr 4: A New York Police Department officer is arrested and charged under Arms Act after three bullets were found in his luggage.
Apr 4: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal attacked by a 19-year-old youth during campaign in Dakshinpuri area of south Delhi, prompting the former Chief Minister to abruptly cancel his roadshow.
Apr 4: The 1992 Babri Mosque demolition was an "act of planned sabotage" and not a by frenzied mob of Hindu outfits, a news portal claims on the basis of a sting operation it had carried over a period of two years.
Apr 6: Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah got troubled for his "revenge" speech with two FIRs being lodged against him.
Apr 7: The long-running Lok Sabha elections--the world's biggest democratic exercise--gets underway with polling in five of the 14 constituencies in Assam and one of the two in Tripura, drawing a very high turnout of voters.
Apr 9: BJP's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi here in an affidavit filed before the Election Commission showed himself as a married man revealing that his wife's name is Jashodaben.
Apr 9: Over 100 Naxals ambushes a team of security forces in Chhattisgarh's tribal belt of Bastar on the eve of Lok Sabha polls, killing three commandos of CRPF's CoBRA battalion and injuring five others including two officers in twin attacks.
Apr 10: High voter turnout marks polling in the first major day of Lok Sabha elections covering 91 constituencies in 14 states and Union Territories.
Apr 11: Cracking the whip on Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah and SP leader Azam Khan, the Election Commission bans them from holding public meetings, processions or roadshows in Uttar Pradesh and asks authorities to initiate criminal proceedings against them.
Apr 12: Seven members of a polling team and five CRPF personnel were among 14 killed as Naxals struck twice in a break of less than an hour, blowing up a bus and an ambulance in Bijapur and Bastar districts of Chhattisgarh.
Apr 14: Congress President Sonia Gandhi appeals to people to defeat "divisive and autocratic" forces which will "destroy" the Indian ethos.
Apr 14: A 20-hour-long gunbattle between two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants and security forces in the outskirts of Srinagar ends with the killing of both the ultras and injury to two policemen.
Apr 16: Anand Gandhi's powerful debut 'Ship of Theseus' is declared the best feature film while biopic 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' is named the best popular film at the 61st National Film Awards.
Apr 16: Over 50 passengers were injured, 19 of them seriously, when the engine and 10 coaches of the Dimapur-Kamakhya BG Express derailed at Teghoria in central Assam.
Apr 17: Moderate to high turnout marks the polling in the fifth and biggest round of Lok Sabha elections covering 121 seats across 12 states amidst Maoist violence in Jharkhand where rebels injured four CRPF jawans, blew up a railway track and exploded bombs.
Apr 17: Admiral Robin Dowan took over as the Chief of Naval Staff.
Apr 18: The Election Commission issues a show cause notice to ruling Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav for allegedly threatening school teachers appointed on contract by Uttar Pradesh government to either vote for his party in Lok Sabha polls or risk losing permanent status.
Apr 21: In fresh revelations in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has unearthed that 'benami' land and a liquor bar, worth over Rs 60 crore, at prime locations of Kolkata were purchased by laundering investors' funds.
Apr 23: AAP leader Somnath Bharti is attacked allegedly by BJP workers near Assi ghat while he was returning from a TV show that featured him.
Apr 24: Eight persons - six polling officials and two policemen - are killed and seven others injured when suspected Maoists blew up their vehicle in the district.
Apr 25: A Major and an army jawan are killed in a six-hour gun-battle with three militants holed up in a house in Shopian district of south Kashmir
Apr 26: In the backdrop of a row over yoga guru Ramdev's 'honeymoon' remark against Rahul Gandhi, the Election Commission came out with fresh guidelines against making "malicious" statements about the private life of individuals
Apr 26: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says he is saddened by the decision of his half-brother Daljeet Singh Kohli to join BJP which claimed it reflected people's anger against the Congress.
Apr 26: Three militants holed up in a house were killed by security forces in Shopian district of Kashmir.
Apr 27: The new Chief Justice of India, R M Lodha, says he did not agree with the idea of having fixed tenure for chief justices of high courts and the CJI and favoured continuing with the collegium system for appointment of judges in higher judiciary.
Apr 27: Piecing together the jigsaw of 26/11 Mumbai attacks, NIA records statements of some of the witnesses in connection with the conspiracy hatched by David Headley and others to carry out the terror strikes in 2008.
Apr 28: President Pranab Mukherjee gave his approval for the dissolution of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly and a fresh proclamation for Central Rule in the state.
Apr 29: BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi landed in a controversy when he invoked a Kargil martyr's slogan to pitch for 300 seats for NDA, a statement that was disapproved by the soldier's family and attacked by political rivals.
Apr 29: Former Chief of the Air Staff Norman Anil Kumar Browne is appointed India's next Ambassador to Norway.
Apr 30: Stoking a huge controversy, Narendra Modi landed himself in a soup by displaying BJP symbol and making a speech in a polling booth in violation of electoral laws following which police filed an FIR against him.
Apr 30: 67-year-old Congress leader Digvijaya Singh took to Twitter to announce his relationship with a woman journalist and plans about marrying her after the social media went viral about it.
Apr 2: In its first major action in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam, the Enforcement Directorate attaches assets worth Rs 60 crore belonging to former Uttar Pradesh Minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and others under money laundering laws. (Uttar Pradesh NRHM Scam is an alleged corruption scandal in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, in which top politicians and bureaucrats are alleged to have siphoned off a massive sum from the National Rural Health Mission, a central government program meant to improve health care delivery in rural areas. At least five people are said to have been murdered in an attempt to coverup large-scale irregularities. NRHM scam came to light after two Chief Medical Officers (the top health functionary of the district) were successively murdered in wealthier localities of the state capital, Lucknow in 2010)
Apr 3: Aam Aadmi Party vows to bring an effective Jan Lokpal in manifesto released that also promised to bring down the minimum age to contest polls from 25 to 21 besides carrying out reforms in electoral and justice delivery system.
Apr 3: Union Textiles Minister K Sambasiva Rao resigns from the Union Cabinet protesting bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, fuelling speculation that he may join BJP.
Apr 4: A New York Police Department officer is arrested and charged under Arms Act after three bullets were found in his luggage.
Apr 4: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal attacked by a 19-year-old youth during campaign in Dakshinpuri area of south Delhi, prompting the former Chief Minister to abruptly cancel his roadshow.
Apr 4: The 1992 Babri Mosque demolition was an "act of planned sabotage" and not a by frenzied mob of Hindu outfits, a news portal claims on the basis of a sting operation it had carried over a period of two years.
Apr 6: Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah got troubled for his "revenge" speech with two FIRs being lodged against him.
Apr 7: The long-running Lok Sabha elections--the world's biggest democratic exercise--gets underway with polling in five of the 14 constituencies in Assam and one of the two in Tripura, drawing a very high turnout of voters.
Apr 9: BJP's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi here in an affidavit filed before the Election Commission showed himself as a married man revealing that his wife's name is Jashodaben.
Apr 9: Over 100 Naxals ambushes a team of security forces in Chhattisgarh's tribal belt of Bastar on the eve of Lok Sabha polls, killing three commandos of CRPF's CoBRA battalion and injuring five others including two officers in twin attacks.
Apr 10: High voter turnout marks polling in the first major day of Lok Sabha elections covering 91 constituencies in 14 states and Union Territories.
Apr 11: Cracking the whip on Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah and SP leader Azam Khan, the Election Commission bans them from holding public meetings, processions or roadshows in Uttar Pradesh and asks authorities to initiate criminal proceedings against them.
Apr 12: Seven members of a polling team and five CRPF personnel were among 14 killed as Naxals struck twice in a break of less than an hour, blowing up a bus and an ambulance in Bijapur and Bastar districts of Chhattisgarh.
Apr 14: Congress President Sonia Gandhi appeals to people to defeat "divisive and autocratic" forces which will "destroy" the Indian ethos.
Apr 14: A 20-hour-long gunbattle between two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants and security forces in the outskirts of Srinagar ends with the killing of both the ultras and injury to two policemen.
Apr 16: Anand Gandhi's powerful debut 'Ship of Theseus' is declared the best feature film while biopic 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' is named the best popular film at the 61st National Film Awards.
Apr 16: Over 50 passengers were injured, 19 of them seriously, when the engine and 10 coaches of the Dimapur-Kamakhya BG Express derailed at Teghoria in central Assam.
Apr 17: Moderate to high turnout marks the polling in the fifth and biggest round of Lok Sabha elections covering 121 seats across 12 states amidst Maoist violence in Jharkhand where rebels injured four CRPF jawans, blew up a railway track and exploded bombs.
Apr 17: Admiral Robin Dowan took over as the Chief of Naval Staff.
Apr 18: The Election Commission issues a show cause notice to ruling Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav for allegedly threatening school teachers appointed on contract by Uttar Pradesh government to either vote for his party in Lok Sabha polls or risk losing permanent status.
Apr 21: In fresh revelations in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has unearthed that 'benami' land and a liquor bar, worth over Rs 60 crore, at prime locations of Kolkata were purchased by laundering investors' funds.
Apr 23: AAP leader Somnath Bharti is attacked allegedly by BJP workers near Assi ghat while he was returning from a TV show that featured him.
Apr 24: Eight persons - six polling officials and two policemen - are killed and seven others injured when suspected Maoists blew up their vehicle in the district.
Apr 25: A Major and an army jawan are killed in a six-hour gun-battle with three militants holed up in a house in Shopian district of south Kashmir
Apr 26: In the backdrop of a row over yoga guru Ramdev's 'honeymoon' remark against Rahul Gandhi, the Election Commission came out with fresh guidelines against making "malicious" statements about the private life of individuals
Apr 26: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says he is saddened by the decision of his half-brother Daljeet Singh Kohli to join BJP which claimed it reflected people's anger against the Congress.
Apr 26: Three militants holed up in a house were killed by security forces in Shopian district of Kashmir.
Apr 27: The new Chief Justice of India, R M Lodha, says he did not agree with the idea of having fixed tenure for chief justices of high courts and the CJI and favoured continuing with the collegium system for appointment of judges in higher judiciary.
Apr 27: Piecing together the jigsaw of 26/11 Mumbai attacks, NIA records statements of some of the witnesses in connection with the conspiracy hatched by David Headley and others to carry out the terror strikes in 2008.
Apr 28: President Pranab Mukherjee gave his approval for the dissolution of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly and a fresh proclamation for Central Rule in the state.
Apr 29: BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi landed in a controversy when he invoked a Kargil martyr's slogan to pitch for 300 seats for NDA, a statement that was disapproved by the soldier's family and attacked by political rivals.
Apr 29: Former Chief of the Air Staff Norman Anil Kumar Browne is appointed India's next Ambassador to Norway.
Apr 30: Stoking a huge controversy, Narendra Modi landed himself in a soup by displaying BJP symbol and making a speech in a polling booth in violation of electoral laws following which police filed an FIR against him.
Apr 30: 67-year-old Congress leader Digvijaya Singh took to Twitter to announce his relationship with a woman journalist and plans about marrying her after the social media went viral about it.
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