May 1: Two blasts in quick succession in a passenger train killed a 24-year old woman techie and injured 14 others in the busy Chennai Central Railway station in a suspected terror attack.
May 1: The ongoing Lok Sabha elections are witnessing much more enthusiasm among the electorate with the voter turnout already surpassing the previous records in the 438 constituencies which went to polls so far.
May 2: At least 23 persons, including children and women, were killed and 14 seriously injured by heavily armed NDFB(S) militants in two communally-sensitive districts of Kokrajhar and Baksa of Assam.
May 2: Government re-ignited the 'snoopgate' issue allegedly involving Narendra Modi by asserting that a judicial Commission to probe it will be in place by May 16, evoking an angry reaction by BJP which warned of reviewing the "illegitimate" decision if it comes to power.
May 3: The arrest of suspected Indian Mujhaideen terrorist Faizan Ahmed Sultan is expected to throw light on the banned terror group's operation being handled from Gulf countries.
May 4: Security agencies probing twin explosions inside Bangalore-Guwahati Express here find some similarities with Patna blasts last year in which cadres of banned Indian Mujahideen (IM) terror outfit have been arrested.
May 4: Central security agencies have claimed that Pakistan's ISI had plans to carry out terror attacks on two foreign consulates in India with evidence for this reportedly given by a Sri Lankan national, arrested from Chennai, during his interrogation.
May 5: Prasar Bharati is ready to institute a probe into the controversial editing of Narendra Modi's interview by Doordarshan but will do so only if the Information and Broadcasting Ministry assures that it would abide by the findings.
May 6: CBI has recorded statements of Defence Minister A K Antony and Prime Minister's Advisor T K A Nair in a case in which former Army chief Gen V K Singh alleged that a retired senior Army official had offered him a bribe to clear purchase of Tatra trucks from a PSU.
May 6: Amid allegations of large scale rigging and booth capturing in various states, the Election Commission has taken steps like deploying poll tracking teams and activating quick response system to ensure free and fair balloting in the last two phases of Lok Sabha polls.
May 7: After a nine-month-long wait and legal hurdles, new airline AirAsia India was granted the flying licence by aviation regulator DGCA and said it plans to launch flights in about three months with low fares.
May 9: President Pranab Mukherjee decided not to vote in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections in order to express his "neutrality in the political fray".
May 10: Members of two communities clashes over construction of a water kiosk near a mosque in Teergaran area here leaving two persons injured and sparking tension.
May 11: Defence Minister AK Antony has red-flagged a proposal of his own Ministry to continue doing business with the UK-based Rolls Royce, which is facing a CBI probe for allegedly paying bribes and engaging middlemen in contracts for supplying engines to the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.
May 12: Lok Sabha elections 2014 witnessed the highest-ever turnout with more than 66 per cent of an estimated 814 million voters exercising their franchise.
May 12: India and scores of other countries, including Switzerland, have adopted a global declaration for automatic exchange of tax information, Finance Minister P Chidambaram says.
May 13: CBI begins its probe in the over Rs 10,000-crore Saradha chit fund case as its seven member Special Investigating Team (SIT) started collecting documents pertaining to the cases from four states and other agencies.
May 14: Government announces appointment of Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag, a veteran infantry officer, as the next Army chief to succeed incumbent Gen Bikram Singh after his retirement on July 31.
May 14: The two Indian journalists posted to Pakistan have been virtually expelled by Pakistan government without assigning any reasons.
May 15: Expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh rules out the possibility of returning to the party fold after the election results are out tomorrow, saying this would be a "betrayal" of the people.
May 15: The 23-year-old ban imposed on terror group LTTE has been extended by five years by the Government which the outfit is a threat to India's sovereignty and integrity.
May 16: Narendra Modi rewrote history storming to power at the Centre with a "triple century", giving NDA an unexpected 336 seats in the Lok Sabha and BJP an absolute majority on its own for the first time in an election that decimated Congress to its lowest ever tally of 44.
May 16: Accepting responsibility for the party's worst-ever defeat, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi conceded that the mandate in the Lok Sabha polls was "clearly against" the Congress and says there was "lot for us to think about".
May 17: US President Barack Obama calls up Prime Minister Manmohan Singh soon after he demitted office and says he was one of the few public leaders whom he "admired" and that he would "miss" working with him on "day-to-day basis."
May 17: Drubbed in the Lok Sabha elections and facing dissidence, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar resigns, but did not seek dissolution of the Assembly, injecting a dramatic turn in state politics.
May 18: New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party rules out possibility of it forming government in Delhi again, even as Congress says it would prefer fresh polls to supporting AAP.
May 19: Setting the terms for revival of the composite dialogue process with the Modi government, Pakistan made it clear that India should not shy away from dealing with "contentious" issues like Jammu and Kashmir and not lay down any preconditions for talks.
May 19: Shattered by the party's worst debacle in the elections, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi offer to resign accepting responsibility but the party unanimously reject it.
May 20: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal asks Lt Governor Najeeb Jung not to dissolve the Delhi Assembly anytime soon, saying it will hold public meetings across the city to know whether the party should form the government again.
May 20: Marking the arrival of a new era in Indian politics, Narendra Modi is appointed Prime Minister, who says the elections have kindled a "new hope and aspiration" among the common man for whom he dedicated his government.
May 21: A moderate earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale shook Delhi, National Capital Region, Chennai and several parts of eastern and northern India but there were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage to properties.
May 21: Under sharp attack, the Prime Minister's Office says the twitter account @PMOIndia has been "secured" by the microblogging company and will be handed over to the new dispensation which will take over next week.
May 22: After its severe drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls, Congress dissolves all 14 district and 140 block committees besides other wings in the national capital as part of efforts to revamp the party ahead of next assembly elections.
May 23: President Pranab Mukherjee strongly condemned the terror attack on the Indian Consulate in Herat and says such attacks will not deter India from assisting Afghanistan in its effort to reconstruct and develop the nation.
May 24: Two key members of Aam Aadmi Party Shazia Ilmi and G R Gopinath quit citing differences with Arvind Kejriwal's "jail politics" and lack of "internal democracy" in the party, which is battling internal fissures after the severe electoral drubbing in recent polls.
May 25: After an Italian court partially lifted the freeze and allowed India to encash bank guarantees worth Rs 1,818 crore deposited by AgustaWestland in the VVIP chopper deal, the Defence Ministry today said it will take "immediate steps" to fully recover the amount.
May 26: At least 14 passengers were killed and 95 injured when a Delhi-Gorakhpur express train derailed and rammed into a stationary freight train near a railway station here, with officials saying that the death toll may rise to 40.
May 26: Marking the beginning of a new era in Indian politics, Narendra Modi is sworn in Prime Minister at the head of a 45-member coalition government after the elections threw the first government with absolute majority in 30 years.
May 27: AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal walks out of Tihar jail as he finally agreed to furnish a bail bond before a local court after spending six days in the prison in a criminal defamation case filed by BJP MP Nitin Gadkari.
May 27: Complying with the Supreme Court directive, the new government on its first day in office constituted a special investigative team (SIT) headed by a former Supreme Court Judge M.B. Shah to unearth black money, including in the case of Hasan Ali.
May 27: BJP heavyweight Rajnath Singh is appointed the Home Minister and Sushma Swaraj the External Affairs Minister while Arun Jaitley is given Finance with defence as additional charge as Prime Minister Narendra Modi effects a major restructuring of the cabinet to ensure synergy and efficiency.
May 28: Connecting with diaspora community and involving them in India's economic progress will be a priority area for the new government, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj says.
May 28: The row over Article 370 escalates with J and K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah making it clear that it cannot be abrogated unless the state's Constituent Assembly is recalled and the RSS asking him whether he thought the state was his "parental estate".
May 29: Indigenously developed Pinaka rockets, capable of destroying enemy positions at 40 kms range with rapid salvos, were successfully test-fired thrice from a multi-barrel launcher at an armament base in Chandipur-on-sea, near here.
May 30: After asking colleagues to set a 100-day target, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held separate meetings with ministers holding infrastructure portfolios to discuss the priorities they have identified and how they plan to implement the programmes.
May 31: AAP received a jolt after senior party leader Yogendra Yadav and Haryana convener Naveen Jaihind tendered their resignation from party's Political Affairs Committee and National Executive respectively over alleged bickering between the two.
May 1: The ongoing Lok Sabha elections are witnessing much more enthusiasm among the electorate with the voter turnout already surpassing the previous records in the 438 constituencies which went to polls so far.
May 2: At least 23 persons, including children and women, were killed and 14 seriously injured by heavily armed NDFB(S) militants in two communally-sensitive districts of Kokrajhar and Baksa of Assam.
May 2: Government re-ignited the 'snoopgate' issue allegedly involving Narendra Modi by asserting that a judicial Commission to probe it will be in place by May 16, evoking an angry reaction by BJP which warned of reviewing the "illegitimate" decision if it comes to power.
May 3: The arrest of suspected Indian Mujhaideen terrorist Faizan Ahmed Sultan is expected to throw light on the banned terror group's operation being handled from Gulf countries.
May 4: Security agencies probing twin explosions inside Bangalore-Guwahati Express here find some similarities with Patna blasts last year in which cadres of banned Indian Mujahideen (IM) terror outfit have been arrested.
May 4: Central security agencies have claimed that Pakistan's ISI had plans to carry out terror attacks on two foreign consulates in India with evidence for this reportedly given by a Sri Lankan national, arrested from Chennai, during his interrogation.
May 5: Prasar Bharati is ready to institute a probe into the controversial editing of Narendra Modi's interview by Doordarshan but will do so only if the Information and Broadcasting Ministry assures that it would abide by the findings.
May 6: CBI has recorded statements of Defence Minister A K Antony and Prime Minister's Advisor T K A Nair in a case in which former Army chief Gen V K Singh alleged that a retired senior Army official had offered him a bribe to clear purchase of Tatra trucks from a PSU.
May 6: Amid allegations of large scale rigging and booth capturing in various states, the Election Commission has taken steps like deploying poll tracking teams and activating quick response system to ensure free and fair balloting in the last two phases of Lok Sabha polls.
May 7: After a nine-month-long wait and legal hurdles, new airline AirAsia India was granted the flying licence by aviation regulator DGCA and said it plans to launch flights in about three months with low fares.
May 9: President Pranab Mukherjee decided not to vote in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections in order to express his "neutrality in the political fray".
May 10: Members of two communities clashes over construction of a water kiosk near a mosque in Teergaran area here leaving two persons injured and sparking tension.
May 11: Defence Minister AK Antony has red-flagged a proposal of his own Ministry to continue doing business with the UK-based Rolls Royce, which is facing a CBI probe for allegedly paying bribes and engaging middlemen in contracts for supplying engines to the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.
May 12: Lok Sabha elections 2014 witnessed the highest-ever turnout with more than 66 per cent of an estimated 814 million voters exercising their franchise.
May 12: India and scores of other countries, including Switzerland, have adopted a global declaration for automatic exchange of tax information, Finance Minister P Chidambaram says.
May 13: CBI begins its probe in the over Rs 10,000-crore Saradha chit fund case as its seven member Special Investigating Team (SIT) started collecting documents pertaining to the cases from four states and other agencies.
May 14: Government announces appointment of Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag, a veteran infantry officer, as the next Army chief to succeed incumbent Gen Bikram Singh after his retirement on July 31.
May 14: The two Indian journalists posted to Pakistan have been virtually expelled by Pakistan government without assigning any reasons.
May 15: Expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh rules out the possibility of returning to the party fold after the election results are out tomorrow, saying this would be a "betrayal" of the people.
May 15: The 23-year-old ban imposed on terror group LTTE has been extended by five years by the Government which the outfit is a threat to India's sovereignty and integrity.
May 16: Narendra Modi rewrote history storming to power at the Centre with a "triple century", giving NDA an unexpected 336 seats in the Lok Sabha and BJP an absolute majority on its own for the first time in an election that decimated Congress to its lowest ever tally of 44.
May 16: Accepting responsibility for the party's worst-ever defeat, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi conceded that the mandate in the Lok Sabha polls was "clearly against" the Congress and says there was "lot for us to think about".
May 17: US President Barack Obama calls up Prime Minister Manmohan Singh soon after he demitted office and says he was one of the few public leaders whom he "admired" and that he would "miss" working with him on "day-to-day basis."
May 17: Drubbed in the Lok Sabha elections and facing dissidence, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar resigns, but did not seek dissolution of the Assembly, injecting a dramatic turn in state politics.
May 18: New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party rules out possibility of it forming government in Delhi again, even as Congress says it would prefer fresh polls to supporting AAP.
May 19: Setting the terms for revival of the composite dialogue process with the Modi government, Pakistan made it clear that India should not shy away from dealing with "contentious" issues like Jammu and Kashmir and not lay down any preconditions for talks.
May 19: Shattered by the party's worst debacle in the elections, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi offer to resign accepting responsibility but the party unanimously reject it.
May 20: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal asks Lt Governor Najeeb Jung not to dissolve the Delhi Assembly anytime soon, saying it will hold public meetings across the city to know whether the party should form the government again.
May 20: Marking the arrival of a new era in Indian politics, Narendra Modi is appointed Prime Minister, who says the elections have kindled a "new hope and aspiration" among the common man for whom he dedicated his government.
May 21: A moderate earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale shook Delhi, National Capital Region, Chennai and several parts of eastern and northern India but there were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage to properties.
May 21: Under sharp attack, the Prime Minister's Office says the twitter account @PMOIndia has been "secured" by the microblogging company and will be handed over to the new dispensation which will take over next week.
May 22: After its severe drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls, Congress dissolves all 14 district and 140 block committees besides other wings in the national capital as part of efforts to revamp the party ahead of next assembly elections.
May 23: President Pranab Mukherjee strongly condemned the terror attack on the Indian Consulate in Herat and says such attacks will not deter India from assisting Afghanistan in its effort to reconstruct and develop the nation.
May 24: Two key members of Aam Aadmi Party Shazia Ilmi and G R Gopinath quit citing differences with Arvind Kejriwal's "jail politics" and lack of "internal democracy" in the party, which is battling internal fissures after the severe electoral drubbing in recent polls.
May 25: After an Italian court partially lifted the freeze and allowed India to encash bank guarantees worth Rs 1,818 crore deposited by AgustaWestland in the VVIP chopper deal, the Defence Ministry today said it will take "immediate steps" to fully recover the amount.
May 26: At least 14 passengers were killed and 95 injured when a Delhi-Gorakhpur express train derailed and rammed into a stationary freight train near a railway station here, with officials saying that the death toll may rise to 40.
May 26: Marking the beginning of a new era in Indian politics, Narendra Modi is sworn in Prime Minister at the head of a 45-member coalition government after the elections threw the first government with absolute majority in 30 years.
May 27: AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal walks out of Tihar jail as he finally agreed to furnish a bail bond before a local court after spending six days in the prison in a criminal defamation case filed by BJP MP Nitin Gadkari.
May 27: Complying with the Supreme Court directive, the new government on its first day in office constituted a special investigative team (SIT) headed by a former Supreme Court Judge M.B. Shah to unearth black money, including in the case of Hasan Ali.
May 27: BJP heavyweight Rajnath Singh is appointed the Home Minister and Sushma Swaraj the External Affairs Minister while Arun Jaitley is given Finance with defence as additional charge as Prime Minister Narendra Modi effects a major restructuring of the cabinet to ensure synergy and efficiency.
May 28: Connecting with diaspora community and involving them in India's economic progress will be a priority area for the new government, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj says.
May 28: The row over Article 370 escalates with J and K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah making it clear that it cannot be abrogated unless the state's Constituent Assembly is recalled and the RSS asking him whether he thought the state was his "parental estate".
May 29: Indigenously developed Pinaka rockets, capable of destroying enemy positions at 40 kms range with rapid salvos, were successfully test-fired thrice from a multi-barrel launcher at an armament base in Chandipur-on-sea, near here.
May 30: After asking colleagues to set a 100-day target, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held separate meetings with ministers holding infrastructure portfolios to discuss the priorities they have identified and how they plan to implement the programmes.
May 31: AAP received a jolt after senior party leader Yogendra Yadav and Haryana convener Naveen Jaihind tendered their resignation from party's Political Affairs Committee and National Executive respectively over alleged bickering between the two.
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