Jun 1: Prime Minister Narendra Modi describes the invitation to SAARC leaders for his swearing-in as a "right decision at the right time " and says his first major foreign policy initiative had sent out a message to the world about India's foreign policy of neighbourhood first.
Jun 1: In an action against a second Congress leader this week for criticising Rahul Gandhi, Rajasthan MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma is suspended from the party, a day after he dubbed him 'MD of a team of jokers'.
Jun 2: Setting the tone for his government's tenure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tells his Council of Ministers to provide transparent and effective governance with time-bound implementation of programmes as he held a marathon meeting with them here.
Jun 2: Capping decades of struggle, Telangana came into being as the 29th state of India when TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao is sworn in as Chief Minister at the head of a 11-member Cabinet that included his son and nephew.
Jun 3: Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, a former Union Finance Minister, is sent to jail for two weeks by a court in a case of alleged assault of an electricity official whose hands were tied during protests against blackouts in Jharkhand.
Jun 3: Union Rural Development Minister and a popular backward class leader from Maharashtra Gopinath Munde dies of multiple internal injuries suffered in a road accident in Central Delhi.
Jun 4: Amid his thrust on speedy delivery systems, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asks bureaucrats to do away with "archaic" rules and procedures which hamper governance by creating "avoidable confusion" and encouraged them to take decisions with a promise of backing them.
Jun 4: A 28-year-old software professional is bludgeoned to death allegedly by persons with suspected links to a Hindu outfit near here.
Jun 5: The 16th Lok Sabha gets off to a speedy start creating a record of sorts with 510 of the 539 members, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top leaders taking oath on a single day.
Jun 6: Reeling under electoral debacle, Aam Aadmi Party appears split down the middle with senior leader Yogendra Yadav attacking Arvind Kejriwal while the party initiated moves to bring back Shazia Ilmi who had quit criticising the "coterie" around Kejriwal.
Jun 6: In a new anti-Naxal strategy being readied by government, bureaucrats and security personnel operating in Maoist-hit areas may get special monetary benefits, out-of-turn promotions and choice posting after the completion of their tenure in these "dangerous" places.
Jun 6: Two groups clash inside the Golden Temple premises for close to half an hour leaving at least 12 persons injured, even as the temple city observe a bandh to mark the 30th anniversary of Operation Bluestar.
Jun 7: Under attack over the rape and murder of two Dalit cousin sisters, the Akhilesh Yadav government suspends Badaun SP, decided to take action against then District magistrate and undertook a massive rejig involving 66 IAS and 42 IPS officers.
Jun 7: Battling growing infighting, the Aam Aadmi Party goes on damage control mode by deciding to restructure it and rejected resignation of its senior leaders Yogendra Yadav and Shazia Ilmi who had attacked Arvind Kejriwal for lack of internal democracy in the party.
Jun 8: Around 24 engineering students from Hyderabad are feared to have been washed away this evening in River Beas near Thalot on Manali-Kiratpur Highway, 40 Km from Mandi, himachal pradesh.
Jun 9: Carrying a message of "peaceful cooperation" from his President for the new Prime Minister, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi exudes confidence that both the countries have the capabilities to deal properly with the contentious issues such as boundary dispute.
Jun 10: In another major shakeup of the state's bureaucracy in four days, the Uttar Pradesh government transfers 36 IAS officers including district magistrates after a review of the law and order situation by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
Jun 10: Principal of a government polytechnic in Kerala and four students are among seven people booked by police over putting a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in their campus magazine under a list of "negative faces" that also included Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.
Jun 11: Defence Minister Arun Jaitley unequivocally states that the appointment of Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag as the next Army Chief is "final", seeking to end the controversy over his elevation in which the former army chief-turned minister V K Singh was also involved.
Jun 12: Six persons, including two Deputy General Managers, are killed and over 30 people fell ill when poisonous gas leaked in Steel Authority of India's Bhilai Plant in Durg district of Chhattisgarh.
Jun 12: After a wait of eight long years, the Gujarat government got final approval to raise by about 17 metres the height of Sardar Sarovar dam--the country's most controversial dam project--in a big boost to the state which often faces water woes due to deficient rains.
Jun 13: On a day Pakistani troops shelled Indian positions, Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh briefs Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the security situation, including ceasefire violations, operational preparedness of the force and its requirement.
Jun 14: Russia-made India's largest aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya is dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who pitched for making the country self-reliant in manufacturing defence equipment and even capable of exports also.
Jun 15: Ahead of the first anniversary of horrendous flash floods which claimed thousands of lives in Uttarakhand, authorities recovered 17 more skeletal remains and cremated them in Kedar valley.
Jun 15: The Centre asserts that dialogue with Pakistan cannot progress if ceasefire violations and infiltration continue, saying such hostilities "must stop" for the situation to "normalise".
Jun 16: Rescue efforts are hampered due to increased discharge of water in Beas river following widespread rains as no headway was made in tracing the missing 16 students and a guide who were swept away by the gushing waters.
Jun 17: Uttar Pradesh Governor B L Joshi resigns as the Narendra Modi government started the process of removal of those appointed by the previous UPA regime but apparently there was resistance from some of those who were asked to quit.
Jun 17: In yet another ceasefire violation along the Indo-Pak border, Pakistani Rangers fired at border outposts in Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir, drawing retaliation by Indian forces.
Jun 17: Initiating the probe into the death of former Union Minister Gopinath Munde, CBI inspects the crime scene where he had met with the accident which collided with a taxi here on June 3.
Jun 18: Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi is conferred Russia's highest civilian award for foreign nationals, "Order of Friendship", for his championing role in fostering ties between the two countries.
Jun 18: The decision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to scrap 30 GoMs and EGoMs set up by the previous UPA government received the formal nod of the Union Cabinet.
Jun 19: Facing resistance from Governors appointed during the UPA regime, the government is considering options to ensure their exit as a second Governor quit the post after some of them asked to do so.
Jun 19: Union Home Ministry has asked RBI to seek prior permission from it for any donation to be made to NGO Greenpeace by two overseas contributors, a move which was earlier recommended by the Intelligence Bureau.
Jun 20: Five foreign satellites will be launched by India under commercial agreements on June 30, space agency ISRO says.
Jun 20: Sixteen Indians stranded in violence-affected areas of Iraq have been evacuated and one of the 40 kidnapped Indians has escaped from captivity in Mosul town even as government said it was "knocking at all doors" to rescue its citizens.
Jun 22: India will launch five satellites for France, Canada, Germany and Singapore on June 30 under commercial agreements, space agency ISRO says.
Jun 22: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressing on the need for increasing arms exports, DRDO says India can sell combat aircraft and missiles whose production cost would be "much lower" than some of the weapons sold by countries such as China.
Jun 22: Signalling the continuity of policy, the new government has ratified the Additional Protocol, a commitment given under Indo-US nuclear deal by the previous dispensation to grant greater ease to IAEA to monitor India's civilian atomic programme.
Jun 23: The row over controversial four-year undergraduate programme took a new turn as colleges affiliated to Delhi University deferred the admission to the academic session 2014-15.
Jun 24: In a significant decision, Air India was inducted into the Star Alliance, an exclusive club of 26 major global airlines, which would enable seamless travel for the airline's passengers to over 1,300 destinations and may increase its revenues by five per cent.
Jun 24: Faced with a "challenging" economy, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley says the time has come to take measures that will put the country on a faster pace of growth and restore investor confidence.
Jun 25: India has evacuated two nurses from the conflict zone in Iraq while 46 other nurses remained stranded in a hospital in Tikrit, taking the total number of those rescued so far to 36 as all Indian envoys in Gulf countries have been called to New Delhi to discuss the Iraqi issue and other regional complexities.
Jun 26: In a major liberalisation, the government allowed manufacturing of several hundreds of equipment and products in the defence sector without licence.
Jun 27: The four-day deadlock over admission to Delhi University's undergraduate course ended with Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh relenting under UGC's pressure and scrapping the controversial four year programme.
Jun 27: Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan orders a high-level inquiry into the GAIL pipeline fire in Andhra Pradesh that kills at least 15 persons.
Jun 28: Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked BJP MPs to focus on their conduct both in Parliament and outside as they were under constant watch by the people and asked them not to go public with their differences.
Jun 28: Reacting strongly to reports that China has in its recent map shown Arunachal Pradesh as its territory, India says "cartographic depiction" does not change reality on the ground and asserted that Arunachal was an integral part of the country.
Jun 29: Error in piloting is understood to have been found as the reason behind the crash of Air Force's C-130J Super Hercules aircraft in March in which five service personnel, including four officers, were killed near Gwalior.
Jun 29: The NIA has taken over the probe into the case of alleged hatching of a plot by Pakistan based terror group to carry out suicide attacks on the US and Israeli consulates in South India.
Jun 30: In an insensitive comment, TMC MP Tapas Pal has threatened to kill opposition CPI-M workers and have their women raped if a single ruling party worker was attacked.
Jun 30: West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan resigned, becoming the fourth person occupying the gubernatorial post to put in his papers since the NDA government prodded some of the Governors appointed during UPA rule to quit.
Jun 1: In an action against a second Congress leader this week for criticising Rahul Gandhi, Rajasthan MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma is suspended from the party, a day after he dubbed him 'MD of a team of jokers'.
Jun 2: Setting the tone for his government's tenure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tells his Council of Ministers to provide transparent and effective governance with time-bound implementation of programmes as he held a marathon meeting with them here.
Jun 2: Capping decades of struggle, Telangana came into being as the 29th state of India when TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao is sworn in as Chief Minister at the head of a 11-member Cabinet that included his son and nephew.
Jun 3: Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, a former Union Finance Minister, is sent to jail for two weeks by a court in a case of alleged assault of an electricity official whose hands were tied during protests against blackouts in Jharkhand.
Jun 3: Union Rural Development Minister and a popular backward class leader from Maharashtra Gopinath Munde dies of multiple internal injuries suffered in a road accident in Central Delhi.
Jun 4: Amid his thrust on speedy delivery systems, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asks bureaucrats to do away with "archaic" rules and procedures which hamper governance by creating "avoidable confusion" and encouraged them to take decisions with a promise of backing them.
Jun 4: A 28-year-old software professional is bludgeoned to death allegedly by persons with suspected links to a Hindu outfit near here.
Jun 5: The 16th Lok Sabha gets off to a speedy start creating a record of sorts with 510 of the 539 members, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top leaders taking oath on a single day.
Jun 6: Reeling under electoral debacle, Aam Aadmi Party appears split down the middle with senior leader Yogendra Yadav attacking Arvind Kejriwal while the party initiated moves to bring back Shazia Ilmi who had quit criticising the "coterie" around Kejriwal.
Jun 6: In a new anti-Naxal strategy being readied by government, bureaucrats and security personnel operating in Maoist-hit areas may get special monetary benefits, out-of-turn promotions and choice posting after the completion of their tenure in these "dangerous" places.
Jun 6: Two groups clash inside the Golden Temple premises for close to half an hour leaving at least 12 persons injured, even as the temple city observe a bandh to mark the 30th anniversary of Operation Bluestar.
Jun 7: Under attack over the rape and murder of two Dalit cousin sisters, the Akhilesh Yadav government suspends Badaun SP, decided to take action against then District magistrate and undertook a massive rejig involving 66 IAS and 42 IPS officers.
Jun 7: Battling growing infighting, the Aam Aadmi Party goes on damage control mode by deciding to restructure it and rejected resignation of its senior leaders Yogendra Yadav and Shazia Ilmi who had attacked Arvind Kejriwal for lack of internal democracy in the party.
Jun 8: Around 24 engineering students from Hyderabad are feared to have been washed away this evening in River Beas near Thalot on Manali-Kiratpur Highway, 40 Km from Mandi, himachal pradesh.
Jun 9: Carrying a message of "peaceful cooperation" from his President for the new Prime Minister, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi exudes confidence that both the countries have the capabilities to deal properly with the contentious issues such as boundary dispute.
Jun 10: In another major shakeup of the state's bureaucracy in four days, the Uttar Pradesh government transfers 36 IAS officers including district magistrates after a review of the law and order situation by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
Jun 10: Principal of a government polytechnic in Kerala and four students are among seven people booked by police over putting a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in their campus magazine under a list of "negative faces" that also included Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.
Jun 11: Defence Minister Arun Jaitley unequivocally states that the appointment of Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag as the next Army Chief is "final", seeking to end the controversy over his elevation in which the former army chief-turned minister V K Singh was also involved.
Jun 12: Six persons, including two Deputy General Managers, are killed and over 30 people fell ill when poisonous gas leaked in Steel Authority of India's Bhilai Plant in Durg district of Chhattisgarh.
Jun 12: After a wait of eight long years, the Gujarat government got final approval to raise by about 17 metres the height of Sardar Sarovar dam--the country's most controversial dam project--in a big boost to the state which often faces water woes due to deficient rains.
Jun 13: On a day Pakistani troops shelled Indian positions, Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh briefs Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the security situation, including ceasefire violations, operational preparedness of the force and its requirement.
Jun 14: Russia-made India's largest aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya is dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who pitched for making the country self-reliant in manufacturing defence equipment and even capable of exports also.
Jun 15: Ahead of the first anniversary of horrendous flash floods which claimed thousands of lives in Uttarakhand, authorities recovered 17 more skeletal remains and cremated them in Kedar valley.
Jun 15: The Centre asserts that dialogue with Pakistan cannot progress if ceasefire violations and infiltration continue, saying such hostilities "must stop" for the situation to "normalise".
Jun 16: Rescue efforts are hampered due to increased discharge of water in Beas river following widespread rains as no headway was made in tracing the missing 16 students and a guide who were swept away by the gushing waters.
Jun 17: Uttar Pradesh Governor B L Joshi resigns as the Narendra Modi government started the process of removal of those appointed by the previous UPA regime but apparently there was resistance from some of those who were asked to quit.
Jun 17: In yet another ceasefire violation along the Indo-Pak border, Pakistani Rangers fired at border outposts in Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir, drawing retaliation by Indian forces.
Jun 17: Initiating the probe into the death of former Union Minister Gopinath Munde, CBI inspects the crime scene where he had met with the accident which collided with a taxi here on June 3.
Jun 18: Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi is conferred Russia's highest civilian award for foreign nationals, "Order of Friendship", for his championing role in fostering ties between the two countries.
Jun 18: The decision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to scrap 30 GoMs and EGoMs set up by the previous UPA government received the formal nod of the Union Cabinet.
Jun 19: Facing resistance from Governors appointed during the UPA regime, the government is considering options to ensure their exit as a second Governor quit the post after some of them asked to do so.
Jun 19: Union Home Ministry has asked RBI to seek prior permission from it for any donation to be made to NGO Greenpeace by two overseas contributors, a move which was earlier recommended by the Intelligence Bureau.
Jun 20: Five foreign satellites will be launched by India under commercial agreements on June 30, space agency ISRO says.
Jun 20: Sixteen Indians stranded in violence-affected areas of Iraq have been evacuated and one of the 40 kidnapped Indians has escaped from captivity in Mosul town even as government said it was "knocking at all doors" to rescue its citizens.
Jun 22: India will launch five satellites for France, Canada, Germany and Singapore on June 30 under commercial agreements, space agency ISRO says.
Jun 22: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressing on the need for increasing arms exports, DRDO says India can sell combat aircraft and missiles whose production cost would be "much lower" than some of the weapons sold by countries such as China.
Jun 22: Signalling the continuity of policy, the new government has ratified the Additional Protocol, a commitment given under Indo-US nuclear deal by the previous dispensation to grant greater ease to IAEA to monitor India's civilian atomic programme.
Jun 23: The row over controversial four-year undergraduate programme took a new turn as colleges affiliated to Delhi University deferred the admission to the academic session 2014-15.
Jun 24: In a significant decision, Air India was inducted into the Star Alliance, an exclusive club of 26 major global airlines, which would enable seamless travel for the airline's passengers to over 1,300 destinations and may increase its revenues by five per cent.
Jun 24: Faced with a "challenging" economy, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley says the time has come to take measures that will put the country on a faster pace of growth and restore investor confidence.
Jun 25: India has evacuated two nurses from the conflict zone in Iraq while 46 other nurses remained stranded in a hospital in Tikrit, taking the total number of those rescued so far to 36 as all Indian envoys in Gulf countries have been called to New Delhi to discuss the Iraqi issue and other regional complexities.
Jun 26: In a major liberalisation, the government allowed manufacturing of several hundreds of equipment and products in the defence sector without licence.
Jun 27: The four-day deadlock over admission to Delhi University's undergraduate course ended with Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh relenting under UGC's pressure and scrapping the controversial four year programme.
Jun 27: Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan orders a high-level inquiry into the GAIL pipeline fire in Andhra Pradesh that kills at least 15 persons.
Jun 28: Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked BJP MPs to focus on their conduct both in Parliament and outside as they were under constant watch by the people and asked them not to go public with their differences.
Jun 28: Reacting strongly to reports that China has in its recent map shown Arunachal Pradesh as its territory, India says "cartographic depiction" does not change reality on the ground and asserted that Arunachal was an integral part of the country.
Jun 29: Error in piloting is understood to have been found as the reason behind the crash of Air Force's C-130J Super Hercules aircraft in March in which five service personnel, including four officers, were killed near Gwalior.
Jun 29: The NIA has taken over the probe into the case of alleged hatching of a plot by Pakistan based terror group to carry out suicide attacks on the US and Israeli consulates in South India.
Jun 30: In an insensitive comment, TMC MP Tapas Pal has threatened to kill opposition CPI-M workers and have their women raped if a single ruling party worker was attacked.
Jun 30: West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan resigned, becoming the fourth person occupying the gubernatorial post to put in his papers since the NDA government prodded some of the Governors appointed during UPA rule to quit.
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