Aug 1: With its stand on food security leading to a stalemate at the WTO talks in Geneva, India says it is committed to the global trade deal without compromising on its interest, and will re-engage with members when talks resume a month from now.
Aug 1: On his first day in office, Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag warns Pakistan that India's response to any beheading-like incident in future would be "more than adequate, intense and immediate".
Aug 2: Controversial writer Taslima Nasreen (bangladeshi writer) meets Home Minister Rajnath Singh and later she said he has assured her of one-year visa.
Aug 3: The IRCTC is fined Rs one lakh after a cockroach was found in food served in Kolkata Rajdhani, as Railways crack the whip slapping heavy fines totalling Rs 11.50 lakh on nine caterers including its subsidiary for serving "bad quality" food in trains.
Aug 3: The Centre assures all help and assistance to Bihar for rescue and relief in the wake of emerging situation due to overflow in Kosi following a landslide in Nepal creating an artificial dam on the river and triggering possibility of floods.
Aug 4: Buckling under pressure of street protests, government announces that English marks in CSAT-II will not be included for gradation or merit in the civil services preliminary examination but the protesters were still not satisfied and demanded scrapping of the aptitude test.
Aug 5: Two more people are arrested in connection with the alleged rape and forced religious conversion of a young woman in Meerut taking to five the total number of arrests in the incident even as the situation in the district is tense but under control.
Aug 5: President Pranab Mukherjee says while there may be need for new institutions to fight corruption, the solution lies not merely in creating more institutions but in strengthening and reforming the existing ones to deliver results.
Aug 6: Moving ahead with the economic reforms, the Cabinet clears the long-delayed proposal for raising FDI limit in defence to 49 per cent and fully opened up the railway infrastructure segment, like high-speed trains, for foreign investment.
Aug 6: India announces a grant of USD 50,000 each to some Ebola-affected countries, including Liberia, apart from putting in place various steps in the light of the outbreak of the virus in West African countries, including screening and tracking of passengers coming or transiting from there.
Aug 7: One of the two eminent persons to be included in the National Judicial Appointments Commission will have to hail from communities belonging to SC, ST, OBC, minorities or be a woman under a provision in the bill being prepared in this regard.
Aug 7: The NDA government comes under attack over the sacking of Mizoram Governor Kamla Beniwal with the Opposition calling it "political vendetta", a charge it rejected by saying the action followed "serious allegations" against her and insisted there was no politics.
Aug 8: As World Health Organisation issues a global health emergency due to Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, the government opens a 24-hour emergency helpline and says it has put in place the "most advanced surveillance and tracking system".
Aug 9: The BJP leadership met with its representatives from across the country as the new party President Amit Shah calls for replacement of the Congress ideology by that of BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi denounced incidents of communal violence declaring there would be no compromise on peace, harmony and national unity.
Aug 9: Having offered to jointly develop and produce the next generation 'Javelin' anti-tank guided missile to India, the US today said the two countries should not allow bureaucratic red tape to bound their defence cooperation.
Aug 11: Keen to scrap the collegium system, government introduced two legislations including a Constitution amendment bill in the Lok Sabha to establish a six-member body for appointment of judges to higher judiciary.
Aug 13: India says terrorism is a "core concern" in its bilateral ties with Pakistan and its "tool kit" is not restricted in any manner to combat it effectively, firmly rejecting Islamabad's criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "proxy war" comments.
Aug 13: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is struck by a revolt with one of its top founding leaders Shanti Bhushan questioning the organisational ability and competence of party chief Arvind Kejriwal, triggering demand for his resignation.
Aug 14: In major escalation in border skirmishes, Pakistani troops violates ceasefire for the third time in 21 hours along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, forcing Army to retaliate.
Aug 14: Notwithstanding reservations of judiciary, Parliament cleared two bills providing for a new mechanism for appointment of judges to higher judiciary by scrapping the collegium system that had come under attack from political parties and others.
Aug 15: Patriotic fervour grips the country as it celebrates its 68th Independence Day with unfurling of tricolour and tributes to martyrs while Chief Ministers announced a number of schemes to accelerate development and appealed to extremists to shun violence.
Aug 15: In his maiden speech from Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces disbanding of Planning Commission, a socialist-era vestige, declared his intent to carry the opposition along and called for a moratorium on caste and communal violence.
Aug 16: CBI arrests a senior functionary of an Odisha-based chit fund company in connection with a multi crore ponzi scam after finding him holed up inside a well at the back of his residence in Bhubaneswar.
Aug 16: India facilitates evacuation of 126 Nepalese nationals from Sirte area of strife-torn Libya.
Aug 17: Twenty-eight persons have died so far in Uttar Pradesh in floods which have hit the state with several rivers flowing above the danger mark and posing a threat to more than 1,000 villages in the affected districts.
Aug 18: Angered by Pakistan's consultations with Kashmiri separatists, India calls off next week's talks between Foreign Secretaries, telling it bluntly to choose between an Indo-Pak dialogue or hobnobbing with the separatists.
Aug 18: Terming as "deliberate" the repeated ceasefire violations on the Line of Control and International Border, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley says Pakistan and "powers within" it clearly do not want ties with India to be normal.
Aug 19: A massive household survey across Telangana to get details of an estimated four crore population in just one day was completed with Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao calling the unprecedented door-to-door drill a "big success" and an "eye-opener" for its critics.
Aug 20: A defiant Pakistan makes it clear that it will continue talking to Kashmiri separatists, saying that the "bottomline" for Indo-Pak talks on Kashmir issue was to engage all stakeholders, evoking a sharp reaction from India which accused it of adopting an approach different to the one laid down by Simla Agreement.
Aug 20: A teary-eyed rights activist Irom Sharmila, who has been on a hunger strike for 14 years, walks free from a makeshift prison here vowing to continue her fight for repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers)ACT.
Aug 21: Government bars release of controversial Punjabi film 'Kaum De Heere' on former PM Indira Gandhi's assassination citing apprehensions of law and order problems in parts of the country.
Aug 21: World-renowned yoga guru and founder of the iyengar School of Yoga B K S Iyengar passes away following illness. He was 96.
Aug 21: A high turnout marks the by-elections to 18 assembly seats in four states in the first major test of strength for BJP since Lok Sabha polls and an acid test for the new alliance of RJD chief Lalu Prasad and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar in Bihar.
Aug 22: Noting that India is dependent on imports in several sectors including defence and health, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asks the IITs to take up the challenge of developing products in these critical fields.
Aug 22: Making it clear the August 25 Foreign Secretary-level meet with Pakistan was not a resumption of dialogue process, India says the decision to cancel it was taken after that country took a "series of actions" which were not "conducive" to proceed ahead.
Aug 22: Jnanpith award winner U R Ananthamurthy, who strode Kannada literary world like a colossus with his pathbreaking works, died of multiple health complications at a private hospital .
Aug 23: Army troops discovered a 50-mt long tunnel near a forward post along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu region's sensitive Pallanwala sector which could have been used to infiltrate militants into India.
Aug 23: Hailing the Supreme Court for questioning government, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad says the convention cited by NDA to deny LoP status to Congress in Lok Sabha has "outlived its life" and it was trying to damage democratic institutions.
Aug 24: Hours after he was shunted to Mizoram, Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan resigned from his post, virtually hitting out at the Centre suggesting that the move could be part of political vendetta.
Aug 24: The CBI has decided to close a case against former SEBI chairman C B Bhave and another ex-member in connection with grant of sanction to MCX-SX to function as a full-fledged private stock exchange but recommended "departmental action" against him.
Aug 25: Three months after its spectacular showing in Lok Sabha polls, the BJP received a jolt in assembly by-elections suffering a 4-6 defeat at the hands of the RJD-JD(U)-Congress alliance in Bihar and yielding two strongholds to Congress in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh.
Aug 26: India lodged a protest with Pakistan over escalating border ceasefire violations in the "heaviest" cross-border firing since the 1971 Indo-Pak war even as the two countries agreed to hold flag meetings to defuse the situation.
Aug 26: Yet another UPA appointed Governor Sheila Dikshit resigns as the Narendra Modi government named former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh as nominee for Rajasthan along with three others for Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa.
Aug 26: The generational shift in BJP was complete with its founders Atal Behari Vajpayee, L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi being dropped from the Parliamentary Board, the highest decision making body, which has the stamp of Prime Minister Narendra Modi all over now.
Aug 27: Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan becomes first Indian actor to be roped in as an Ambassador of Interpol's 'Turn Back Crime' campaign, aimed at promoting greater awareness on how to prevent crime.
Aug 27: As they prepare to mark 100 days in office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP and the Home Minister were involved in damage control amidst apparent differences at the top after embarrassing media reports that Rajnath Singh's son was ticked off by Modi for an alleged "misconduct".
Aug 27: Moving ahead with his resolve to weed out archaic rules and procedures as part of reforms process, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set up a committee to identify "obsolete" laws which he believes hamper governance by creating "avoidable confusion".
Aug 28: Setting the tone for their meeting two days later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe today took to Twitter to reach out to each other and the respective countries.
Aug 28: In the backdrop of the night-long firing by Pakistan Rangers targeting civilians areas and BoPs, BSF troops held commandant-level flag-meeting with Rangers along International Border (IB) in Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir, impressing upon each other to respect the ceasefire.
Aug 28: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched his government's mega scheme ' Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana', declaring that it was aimed at eradicating financial untouchability by providing bank accounts to the poor.
Aug 29: Defence Ministry today scrapped a scam-tainted tender worth over Rs 6,000 crore to procure 197 light utility helicopters for Army and Air Force to replace the vintage fleet of Cheetah and Chetak choppers used to move troops and equipment to high altitude locations like Siachen.
Aug 30: Amid fresh speculation about BJP considering taking a shot at power, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas claimed a BJP MP had offered that he would be made Delhi chief minister if he switched side along with some AAP MLAs, drawing a sharp rebuttal from BJP which says legal action is being explored against him.
Aug 30: India says ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the LoC and International Border were "serious and provocative" and created an environment "not very conducive" for relationship between the two sides.
Aug 31: In a bid to help publicise and implement social welfare schemes initiated under Prime Minister Narendra Modi government, BJP has formed a committee for active coordination between the party and the government.
Aug 31: With BJP consistently failing to make electoral breakthrough in Kerala, party chief Amit Shah begins his maiden visit to the southern state to discuss with leaders and grassroots functionaries strategy to strengthen and galvanise the organisation.
Aug 1: On his first day in office, Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag warns Pakistan that India's response to any beheading-like incident in future would be "more than adequate, intense and immediate".
Aug 2: Controversial writer Taslima Nasreen (bangladeshi writer) meets Home Minister Rajnath Singh and later she said he has assured her of one-year visa.
Aug 3: The IRCTC is fined Rs one lakh after a cockroach was found in food served in Kolkata Rajdhani, as Railways crack the whip slapping heavy fines totalling Rs 11.50 lakh on nine caterers including its subsidiary for serving "bad quality" food in trains.
Aug 3: The Centre assures all help and assistance to Bihar for rescue and relief in the wake of emerging situation due to overflow in Kosi following a landslide in Nepal creating an artificial dam on the river and triggering possibility of floods.
Aug 4: Buckling under pressure of street protests, government announces that English marks in CSAT-II will not be included for gradation or merit in the civil services preliminary examination but the protesters were still not satisfied and demanded scrapping of the aptitude test.
Aug 5: Two more people are arrested in connection with the alleged rape and forced religious conversion of a young woman in Meerut taking to five the total number of arrests in the incident even as the situation in the district is tense but under control.
Aug 5: President Pranab Mukherjee says while there may be need for new institutions to fight corruption, the solution lies not merely in creating more institutions but in strengthening and reforming the existing ones to deliver results.
Aug 6: Moving ahead with the economic reforms, the Cabinet clears the long-delayed proposal for raising FDI limit in defence to 49 per cent and fully opened up the railway infrastructure segment, like high-speed trains, for foreign investment.
Aug 6: India announces a grant of USD 50,000 each to some Ebola-affected countries, including Liberia, apart from putting in place various steps in the light of the outbreak of the virus in West African countries, including screening and tracking of passengers coming or transiting from there.
Aug 7: One of the two eminent persons to be included in the National Judicial Appointments Commission will have to hail from communities belonging to SC, ST, OBC, minorities or be a woman under a provision in the bill being prepared in this regard.
Aug 7: The NDA government comes under attack over the sacking of Mizoram Governor Kamla Beniwal with the Opposition calling it "political vendetta", a charge it rejected by saying the action followed "serious allegations" against her and insisted there was no politics.
Aug 8: As World Health Organisation issues a global health emergency due to Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, the government opens a 24-hour emergency helpline and says it has put in place the "most advanced surveillance and tracking system".
Aug 9: The BJP leadership met with its representatives from across the country as the new party President Amit Shah calls for replacement of the Congress ideology by that of BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi denounced incidents of communal violence declaring there would be no compromise on peace, harmony and national unity.
Aug 9: Having offered to jointly develop and produce the next generation 'Javelin' anti-tank guided missile to India, the US today said the two countries should not allow bureaucratic red tape to bound their defence cooperation.
Aug 11: Keen to scrap the collegium system, government introduced two legislations including a Constitution amendment bill in the Lok Sabha to establish a six-member body for appointment of judges to higher judiciary.
Aug 13: India says terrorism is a "core concern" in its bilateral ties with Pakistan and its "tool kit" is not restricted in any manner to combat it effectively, firmly rejecting Islamabad's criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "proxy war" comments.
Aug 13: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is struck by a revolt with one of its top founding leaders Shanti Bhushan questioning the organisational ability and competence of party chief Arvind Kejriwal, triggering demand for his resignation.
Aug 14: In major escalation in border skirmishes, Pakistani troops violates ceasefire for the third time in 21 hours along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, forcing Army to retaliate.
Aug 14: Notwithstanding reservations of judiciary, Parliament cleared two bills providing for a new mechanism for appointment of judges to higher judiciary by scrapping the collegium system that had come under attack from political parties and others.
Aug 15: Patriotic fervour grips the country as it celebrates its 68th Independence Day with unfurling of tricolour and tributes to martyrs while Chief Ministers announced a number of schemes to accelerate development and appealed to extremists to shun violence.
Aug 15: In his maiden speech from Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces disbanding of Planning Commission, a socialist-era vestige, declared his intent to carry the opposition along and called for a moratorium on caste and communal violence.
Aug 16: CBI arrests a senior functionary of an Odisha-based chit fund company in connection with a multi crore ponzi scam after finding him holed up inside a well at the back of his residence in Bhubaneswar.
Aug 16: India facilitates evacuation of 126 Nepalese nationals from Sirte area of strife-torn Libya.
Aug 17: Twenty-eight persons have died so far in Uttar Pradesh in floods which have hit the state with several rivers flowing above the danger mark and posing a threat to more than 1,000 villages in the affected districts.
Aug 18: Angered by Pakistan's consultations with Kashmiri separatists, India calls off next week's talks between Foreign Secretaries, telling it bluntly to choose between an Indo-Pak dialogue or hobnobbing with the separatists.
Aug 18: Terming as "deliberate" the repeated ceasefire violations on the Line of Control and International Border, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley says Pakistan and "powers within" it clearly do not want ties with India to be normal.
Aug 19: A massive household survey across Telangana to get details of an estimated four crore population in just one day was completed with Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao calling the unprecedented door-to-door drill a "big success" and an "eye-opener" for its critics.
Aug 20: A defiant Pakistan makes it clear that it will continue talking to Kashmiri separatists, saying that the "bottomline" for Indo-Pak talks on Kashmir issue was to engage all stakeholders, evoking a sharp reaction from India which accused it of adopting an approach different to the one laid down by Simla Agreement.
Aug 20: A teary-eyed rights activist Irom Sharmila, who has been on a hunger strike for 14 years, walks free from a makeshift prison here vowing to continue her fight for repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers)ACT.
Aug 21: Government bars release of controversial Punjabi film 'Kaum De Heere' on former PM Indira Gandhi's assassination citing apprehensions of law and order problems in parts of the country.
Aug 21: World-renowned yoga guru and founder of the iyengar School of Yoga B K S Iyengar passes away following illness. He was 96.
Aug 21: A high turnout marks the by-elections to 18 assembly seats in four states in the first major test of strength for BJP since Lok Sabha polls and an acid test for the new alliance of RJD chief Lalu Prasad and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar in Bihar.
Aug 22: Noting that India is dependent on imports in several sectors including defence and health, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asks the IITs to take up the challenge of developing products in these critical fields.
Aug 22: Making it clear the August 25 Foreign Secretary-level meet with Pakistan was not a resumption of dialogue process, India says the decision to cancel it was taken after that country took a "series of actions" which were not "conducive" to proceed ahead.
Aug 22: Jnanpith award winner U R Ananthamurthy, who strode Kannada literary world like a colossus with his pathbreaking works, died of multiple health complications at a private hospital .
Aug 23: Army troops discovered a 50-mt long tunnel near a forward post along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu region's sensitive Pallanwala sector which could have been used to infiltrate militants into India.
Aug 23: Hailing the Supreme Court for questioning government, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad says the convention cited by NDA to deny LoP status to Congress in Lok Sabha has "outlived its life" and it was trying to damage democratic institutions.
Aug 24: Hours after he was shunted to Mizoram, Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan resigned from his post, virtually hitting out at the Centre suggesting that the move could be part of political vendetta.
Aug 24: The CBI has decided to close a case against former SEBI chairman C B Bhave and another ex-member in connection with grant of sanction to MCX-SX to function as a full-fledged private stock exchange but recommended "departmental action" against him.
Aug 25: Three months after its spectacular showing in Lok Sabha polls, the BJP received a jolt in assembly by-elections suffering a 4-6 defeat at the hands of the RJD-JD(U)-Congress alliance in Bihar and yielding two strongholds to Congress in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh.
Aug 26: India lodged a protest with Pakistan over escalating border ceasefire violations in the "heaviest" cross-border firing since the 1971 Indo-Pak war even as the two countries agreed to hold flag meetings to defuse the situation.
Aug 26: Yet another UPA appointed Governor Sheila Dikshit resigns as the Narendra Modi government named former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh as nominee for Rajasthan along with three others for Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa.
Aug 26: The generational shift in BJP was complete with its founders Atal Behari Vajpayee, L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi being dropped from the Parliamentary Board, the highest decision making body, which has the stamp of Prime Minister Narendra Modi all over now.
Aug 27: Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan becomes first Indian actor to be roped in as an Ambassador of Interpol's 'Turn Back Crime' campaign, aimed at promoting greater awareness on how to prevent crime.
Aug 27: As they prepare to mark 100 days in office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP and the Home Minister were involved in damage control amidst apparent differences at the top after embarrassing media reports that Rajnath Singh's son was ticked off by Modi for an alleged "misconduct".
Aug 27: Moving ahead with his resolve to weed out archaic rules and procedures as part of reforms process, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set up a committee to identify "obsolete" laws which he believes hamper governance by creating "avoidable confusion".
Aug 28: Setting the tone for their meeting two days later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe today took to Twitter to reach out to each other and the respective countries.
Aug 28: In the backdrop of the night-long firing by Pakistan Rangers targeting civilians areas and BoPs, BSF troops held commandant-level flag-meeting with Rangers along International Border (IB) in Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir, impressing upon each other to respect the ceasefire.
Aug 28: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched his government's mega scheme ' Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana', declaring that it was aimed at eradicating financial untouchability by providing bank accounts to the poor.
Aug 29: Defence Ministry today scrapped a scam-tainted tender worth over Rs 6,000 crore to procure 197 light utility helicopters for Army and Air Force to replace the vintage fleet of Cheetah and Chetak choppers used to move troops and equipment to high altitude locations like Siachen.
Aug 30: Amid fresh speculation about BJP considering taking a shot at power, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas claimed a BJP MP had offered that he would be made Delhi chief minister if he switched side along with some AAP MLAs, drawing a sharp rebuttal from BJP which says legal action is being explored against him.
Aug 30: India says ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the LoC and International Border were "serious and provocative" and created an environment "not very conducive" for relationship between the two sides.
Aug 31: In a bid to help publicise and implement social welfare schemes initiated under Prime Minister Narendra Modi government, BJP has formed a committee for active coordination between the party and the government.
Aug 31: With BJP consistently failing to make electoral breakthrough in Kerala, party chief Amit Shah begins his maiden visit to the southern state to discuss with leaders and grassroots functionaries strategy to strengthen and galvanise the organisation.
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