Oct 1: Pakistani troops violate ceasefire after over a month-long lull and resorted to heavy firing and mortar shelling in three sub-sectors along Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, drawing retaliation from Indian forces.
Oct 1: A Cheetah helicopter of the Army crashes moments after taking off from an airbase in Cantt area, killing the two pilots and an engineer.
Oct 1: Twelve people are killed and 45 injured in a collision between two passenger trains near here in Uttar Pradesh last night, prompting the government to promise an action plan to improve safety.
Oct 2: Prime Minister Narendra Modi ropes in nine celebrities including cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, industrialist Anil Ambani and several actors to spread awareness on cleanliness and make 'Swachh Bharat' a people's movement.
Oct 3: Seeking to reach out to more people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the countrymen over radio for the first time, giving a pep talk about how to shed despondency and use their skills for betterment and prosperity of the country.
Oct 4: India and the US are working further on their declaration on how to choke all financial and tactical support to underworld don and terror mastermind Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company.
Oct 4: As they kickstarted campaigning for the October 15 Assembly polls in Haryana and Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sonia Gandhi traded fire with the former attacking the Congress regime for having done "little" in the last 60 years and she likening him to "empty vessels" making noise.
Oct 5: Patna Divisional Commissioner N Vijaylaxmi and three other top civil and police officials of the district administration were removed from their posts by the Bihar government, two days after the stampede in the state capital that left 33 dead.
Oct 5: Two women are arrested and a man detained in connection with the Burdwan blast in West Bengal that left two suspected militants dead even as ruling TMC, BJP and CPI-M were locked in a blame game over the incident in which role of terror groups is being probed.
Oct 6: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari stokes a controversy by allegedly asking voters at a public meeting in poll-bound Maharashtra to accept bribes, prompting the Election Commission to issue him a show cause notice.
Oct 6: Coming out against dynastic politics and nepotism in Haryana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the electorate to junk such parties and elect a BJP government with majority, saying he did not want support of "dangerous" people lodged in Tihar Jail, apparently referring to former CM Om Prakash Chautala.
Oct 7: Jailed former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, undergoing four-year imprisonment in a graft case, was refused bail by the Karnataka High Court which held that there were no grounds for it as corruption amounts to "violation of human rights" and must be dealt with seriously.
Oct 7: With the government notifying the decision to grant life-long visa to Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs), Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the swift action taken on his promise made in the US and hoped it will give an impetus to India's development journey.
Oct 7: Five weeks after launching the ambitious Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked bank officers and staff to undertake "mid-course corrections required" as the "journey is bound to become more difficult" in the future.
Oct 8: The Election Commission ruled that there appears to be no violation of the model code of conduct by Haryana government in clearing the land deal between Robert Vadra and real estate major DLF.
Oct 8: Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a "four-coloured" revolution signifying the colours of the Indian tricolour in the area of power and agriculture, marine sector and milk production to take the country forward.
Oct 8: Counter-hijack operations force NSG has submitted a report to the Union Home Ministry giving details of the sequence of events that led to the surprise recovery of a dummy stun-grenade on-board an Air India plane when it landed at Jeddah few days back.
Oct 9: The Centre decided to hand over to NIA the probe into the bomb blast in Burdwan in West Bengal in which the role of terror groups is suspected, a decision which the Trinamool Congress government says was taken suo motu.
Oct 9: Emphasising that sanitation remains the first challenge for urban administration, President Pranab Mukherjee says clean environment is the "right of every citizen" and it should be treated as a "non-negotiable requirement".
Oct 10: The fresh report submitted to police by AIIMS doctors on the reasons for the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar is "inconclusive", according to Delhi Police, even as BJP and Congress were locked in a slanging match on the issue.
Oct 10: After nine days of heavy gunfire and mortar shelling from across the border, firing at the Jammu frontier subsided even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi says Pakistan has been taught a "befitting lesson" with the Army "shutting their mouth".
Oct 10: Child rights crusader Kailash Satyarthi says his Nobel Peace Prize was a "big recognition" to the struggle for millions of children who are still languishing in "slavery" and vowed not to stop work till each one of them is freed.
Oct 11: After a brief lull, Pakistan violated ceasefire twice along International Border (IB) and Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch and Jammu district, drawing strong retaliation from India.
Oct 11: With an intent of developing rural India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an ambitious scheme under which he asked each of around 800 MPs to develop physical and institutional infrastructure of three villages by 2019.
Oct 12: The Centre is working on a solution to ensure that poor get benefits like free medicines and check-ups in speciality government hospitals on the basis of their BPL ration cards while eliminating income tax payers and top officials from the ambit of PDS.
Oct 12: To curb misuse of official cyber tools and attempts of phishing, the Income Tax department has rolled out a secure email system for all its employees and officers.
Oct 13: After a brief lull, Pakistani troops violated ceasefire twice and resorted to heavy firing and mortar shelling targeting 10 Indian forward posts along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district injuring one woman.
Oct 13: Andhra Pradesh and Odisha mounted massive relief efforts on a war footing to restore communication and power links and clear roads that were battered in the powerful cyclone Hudhud in which the death toll rose to 24.
Oct 13: India has made some progress in reducing poverty level, but still ranks behind neighbouring Nepal and Sri Lanka on the Global Hunger Index and its hunger status remains classified as "serious".
Oct 14: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Rs 1000 crore as interim relief for the cyclone-hit Andhra Pradesh as he undertook a survey of the worst-affected city.
Oct 14: Canada assured India that it takes "threat of incitement" by radical elements "very seriously" in response to New Delhi's concerns over activities of pro- Khalistan elements as the two countries discussed ways to enhance cooperation in key areas of defence, nuclear energy and trade.
Oct 15: Haryana creates history clocking an all-time high polling of about 76 per cent, surpassing the previous best of 72.65 per cent in 1967 in the high-stakes battle among top contenders Congress, BJP and INLD amid stray incidents of violence in many parts of the state.
Oct 15: The CBI tells the External Affairs Ministry there has been no indication of Saradha Group's investment funds being diverted to terror groups based in Bangladesh during its probe into the chit fund scam.
Oct 15: India signs a deal with Canada on clean water technologies, with a focus on Prime Minister's Clean Rivers Mission.
Oct 16: Bracing to deal with Ebola epidemic which has claimed more than 4000 lives globally, the government took stock of the measures being undertaken for strengthening the preparedness, surveillance and response system in states.
Oct 16: Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a string of labour reforms, including measures to end 'inspector raj', asserting that ease of doing business is "essential" to ensure 'Make-in-India' campaign is successful.
Oct 16: A day after China reacted sharply to government's plans to construct a border road in Arunachal Pradesh, Home Minister Rajnath Singh sent a strong message asserting that no one can warn India.
Oct 17: India and China concluded two-day talks on border mechanism here during which they discussed ways to prevent incidents like last month's standoff between their armies in Ladakh from recurring in future and reached consensus on early implementation of several CBMs.
Oct 17: Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated scientists on the successful test-firing of indigenously developed nuclear capable cruise missile 'Nirbhay', saying this meant a "great impetus" to the country's defence capabilities.
Oct 17: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley claimed a breakthrough saying the Swiss government has agreed to share information on Indians stashing illicit money there in certain cases, but blamed a 1995 agreement as the constraining factor in disclosing their names.
Oct 18: In a major reform push, the government deregulated diesel prices but hiked natural gas tariff by 46 per cent that will push up fertiliser, power, CNG and PNG rates.
Oct 18: Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag asks his commanders to "continuously assess" the situation in view of the security transition taking place in the neighbourhood and directed them to maintain relentless pressure on terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir to ensure peaceful polls.
Oct 19: Bangalore girl Noyonita Lodh is crowned Yamaha Fascino Miss Diva Universe 2014 after beating 14 finalists across India.
Oct 19: Pritam Munde, the second daughter of late BJP leader Gopinath Munde, scripted Lok Sabha history winning the Beed seat in Maharashtra in a bypoll by a record margin of nearly seven lakh votes.
Oct 19: Knocking out Congress from its bastions, the Modi wave placed BJP on the cusp of forming a government in Maharashtra with unexpected support from NCP while it stormed to power on its own in Haryana.
Oct 20: Delhi Police, probing the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, says it will provide all details sought by a panel of AIIMS doctors so that it can give a "conclusive forensic" report to the investigators.
Oct 20: Regretting that India is way behind in medical research, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked doctors to keep pace with the rapidly changing medical science to remain "relevant".
Oct 21: There is no threat from either al Qaeda or ISIS of a magnitude which the country cannot deal with, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval says but asserted that security agencies were keeping a "very close watch".
Oct 21: The Ordinance to auction coal blocks through an electronic platform got the President's approval, paving the way for a "transparent" allocation process for mines to the private sector, even as trade unions and Left parties opposed the move.
Oct 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi pitched for revamping urban governance while linking it to the 'Digital India' mission and 'Swachh Bharat' campaign.
Oct 22: CBI filed its first charge sheet in the multi-crore Saradha scam naming the company chief Sudipta Sen, close aide Debjani Mukherjee and suspended Trinamool MP Kunal Ghosh, five months after it was ordered by the Supreme Court to probe the case.
Oct 22: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley may have dropped hints that a minister in the previous UPA government could be one of those who had stashed money abroad.
Oct 22: India has grounded its entire Sukhoi-30 fighter plane fleet and is undertaking a thorough technical check after both the pilot seats in one of the aircraft ejected without command during landing, leading to a crash near Pune recently.
Oct 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces a slew of relief measures, including a special package of Rs 745-crore package, from his relief fund for the flood-affected people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Oct 23: Pakistan Rangers violate ceasefire several times and resorted to firing on Border Out Posts along the International Border in Samba, Kathua and Jammu districts, on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Jammu and Kashmir.
Oct 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays a surprise visit to Siachen to celebrate Diwali with soldiers posted at the world's highest battlefield and hailed the role of the armed forces in securing the country.
Oct 24: In fresh ceasefire violation, Pakistan troops fire at forward Indian posts along Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, drawing retaliation from Indian soldiers.
Oct 24: Two days ahead of a planned rally in London by a pro-Pakistan group on Kashmir issue, India warned that forces inimical to Indo-UK relations may utilise such opportunity in open societies.
Oct 24: IAF personnel and their families have been asked not to use Chinese 'Xiaomi Redmi 1s' phones on the ground that data was allegedly transferred to their servers in China and it could be a security risk, a charge denied by the company.
Oct 25: Government has decided to observe the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on October 31 as the 'Rashtriya Ekta Diwas' (National Unity Day) every year, as a mark of tribute to the efforts of the country's first Home Minister to unite India.
Oct 25: Reaching out to the media with which he has had a lukewarm relationship, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had some good words for the press, promising to find a way to interact with it directly.
Oct 25: Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand will be held in five phases between November 25 and December 20 and counting of votes will take place on December 23, the Election Commission announced.
Oct 26: Manohar Lal Khattar, mentored by RSS and known for his organisational skills and clean image, took oath as Haryana Chief Minister, leading the first BJP government in the state since it was created 48 years ago.
Oct 27: President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for making optimum use of modern technology in tackling corruption.
Oct 27: "Polio virus doesn't need any visa to cross border," UNICEF warned polio-free India as the number of cases of the paralysing disease reached an alarming high in Pakistan.
Oct 28: In a first, Delhi Police uses drones fitted with cameras to patrol the skies of the violence-hit Trilokpuri area in East Delhi, where situation improved with no fresh incident of violence and greater relaxation in prohibitory orders.
Oct 28: With fresh inputs on the Burdwan blast indicating pan-India existence of Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Home Minister Rajnath Singh orders immediate neutralisation of the terror modules of the banned group.
Oct 29: Rapped by the Supreme Court, Lt Governor Najeeb Jung is set to kick off consultations with BJP, AAP and Congress in the next couple of days in fresh efforts to install an elected government in the capital or dissolving the assembly to pave way for elections early next year.
Oct 30: Government has decided to give Rs five lakh each to the next of kin of 3,325 victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots triggered after assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Oct 30: Amid a debate on disclosure of names of suspected black money holders, Switzerland says information exchanged under Swiss-India tax treaty cannot be disclosed "in principle" to a court or any other body outside the proceedings of a 'specific and relevant' case.
Oct 31: Prime Minister Narendra Modi skipped the event commemorating the death anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at the Shakti Sthal memorial where President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and top leaders of the Congress paid floral tributes to her.
Oct 31: Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as Chief Minister of the first BJP government in Maharashtra at a grand ceremony where Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray made a last-minute appearance, raising the possibility of a re- approchement between the saffron parties.
Oct 1: A Cheetah helicopter of the Army crashes moments after taking off from an airbase in Cantt area, killing the two pilots and an engineer.
Oct 1: Twelve people are killed and 45 injured in a collision between two passenger trains near here in Uttar Pradesh last night, prompting the government to promise an action plan to improve safety.
Oct 2: Prime Minister Narendra Modi ropes in nine celebrities including cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, industrialist Anil Ambani and several actors to spread awareness on cleanliness and make 'Swachh Bharat' a people's movement.
Oct 3: Seeking to reach out to more people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the countrymen over radio for the first time, giving a pep talk about how to shed despondency and use their skills for betterment and prosperity of the country.
Oct 4: India and the US are working further on their declaration on how to choke all financial and tactical support to underworld don and terror mastermind Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company.
Oct 4: As they kickstarted campaigning for the October 15 Assembly polls in Haryana and Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sonia Gandhi traded fire with the former attacking the Congress regime for having done "little" in the last 60 years and she likening him to "empty vessels" making noise.
Oct 5: Patna Divisional Commissioner N Vijaylaxmi and three other top civil and police officials of the district administration were removed from their posts by the Bihar government, two days after the stampede in the state capital that left 33 dead.
Oct 5: Two women are arrested and a man detained in connection with the Burdwan blast in West Bengal that left two suspected militants dead even as ruling TMC, BJP and CPI-M were locked in a blame game over the incident in which role of terror groups is being probed.
Oct 6: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari stokes a controversy by allegedly asking voters at a public meeting in poll-bound Maharashtra to accept bribes, prompting the Election Commission to issue him a show cause notice.
Oct 6: Coming out against dynastic politics and nepotism in Haryana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the electorate to junk such parties and elect a BJP government with majority, saying he did not want support of "dangerous" people lodged in Tihar Jail, apparently referring to former CM Om Prakash Chautala.
Oct 7: Jailed former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, undergoing four-year imprisonment in a graft case, was refused bail by the Karnataka High Court which held that there were no grounds for it as corruption amounts to "violation of human rights" and must be dealt with seriously.
Oct 7: With the government notifying the decision to grant life-long visa to Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs), Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the swift action taken on his promise made in the US and hoped it will give an impetus to India's development journey.
Oct 7: Five weeks after launching the ambitious Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked bank officers and staff to undertake "mid-course corrections required" as the "journey is bound to become more difficult" in the future.
Oct 8: The Election Commission ruled that there appears to be no violation of the model code of conduct by Haryana government in clearing the land deal between Robert Vadra and real estate major DLF.
Oct 8: Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a "four-coloured" revolution signifying the colours of the Indian tricolour in the area of power and agriculture, marine sector and milk production to take the country forward.
Oct 8: Counter-hijack operations force NSG has submitted a report to the Union Home Ministry giving details of the sequence of events that led to the surprise recovery of a dummy stun-grenade on-board an Air India plane when it landed at Jeddah few days back.
Oct 9: The Centre decided to hand over to NIA the probe into the bomb blast in Burdwan in West Bengal in which the role of terror groups is suspected, a decision which the Trinamool Congress government says was taken suo motu.
Oct 9: Emphasising that sanitation remains the first challenge for urban administration, President Pranab Mukherjee says clean environment is the "right of every citizen" and it should be treated as a "non-negotiable requirement".
Oct 10: The fresh report submitted to police by AIIMS doctors on the reasons for the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar is "inconclusive", according to Delhi Police, even as BJP and Congress were locked in a slanging match on the issue.
Oct 10: After nine days of heavy gunfire and mortar shelling from across the border, firing at the Jammu frontier subsided even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi says Pakistan has been taught a "befitting lesson" with the Army "shutting their mouth".
Oct 10: Child rights crusader Kailash Satyarthi says his Nobel Peace Prize was a "big recognition" to the struggle for millions of children who are still languishing in "slavery" and vowed not to stop work till each one of them is freed.
Oct 11: After a brief lull, Pakistan violated ceasefire twice along International Border (IB) and Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch and Jammu district, drawing strong retaliation from India.
Oct 11: With an intent of developing rural India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an ambitious scheme under which he asked each of around 800 MPs to develop physical and institutional infrastructure of three villages by 2019.
Oct 12: The Centre is working on a solution to ensure that poor get benefits like free medicines and check-ups in speciality government hospitals on the basis of their BPL ration cards while eliminating income tax payers and top officials from the ambit of PDS.
Oct 12: To curb misuse of official cyber tools and attempts of phishing, the Income Tax department has rolled out a secure email system for all its employees and officers.
Oct 13: After a brief lull, Pakistani troops violated ceasefire twice and resorted to heavy firing and mortar shelling targeting 10 Indian forward posts along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district injuring one woman.
Oct 13: Andhra Pradesh and Odisha mounted massive relief efforts on a war footing to restore communication and power links and clear roads that were battered in the powerful cyclone Hudhud in which the death toll rose to 24.
Oct 13: India has made some progress in reducing poverty level, but still ranks behind neighbouring Nepal and Sri Lanka on the Global Hunger Index and its hunger status remains classified as "serious".
Oct 14: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Rs 1000 crore as interim relief for the cyclone-hit Andhra Pradesh as he undertook a survey of the worst-affected city.
Oct 14: Canada assured India that it takes "threat of incitement" by radical elements "very seriously" in response to New Delhi's concerns over activities of pro- Khalistan elements as the two countries discussed ways to enhance cooperation in key areas of defence, nuclear energy and trade.
Oct 15: Haryana creates history clocking an all-time high polling of about 76 per cent, surpassing the previous best of 72.65 per cent in 1967 in the high-stakes battle among top contenders Congress, BJP and INLD amid stray incidents of violence in many parts of the state.
Oct 15: The CBI tells the External Affairs Ministry there has been no indication of Saradha Group's investment funds being diverted to terror groups based in Bangladesh during its probe into the chit fund scam.
Oct 15: India signs a deal with Canada on clean water technologies, with a focus on Prime Minister's Clean Rivers Mission.
Oct 16: Bracing to deal with Ebola epidemic which has claimed more than 4000 lives globally, the government took stock of the measures being undertaken for strengthening the preparedness, surveillance and response system in states.
Oct 16: Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a string of labour reforms, including measures to end 'inspector raj', asserting that ease of doing business is "essential" to ensure 'Make-in-India' campaign is successful.
Oct 16: A day after China reacted sharply to government's plans to construct a border road in Arunachal Pradesh, Home Minister Rajnath Singh sent a strong message asserting that no one can warn India.
Oct 17: India and China concluded two-day talks on border mechanism here during which they discussed ways to prevent incidents like last month's standoff between their armies in Ladakh from recurring in future and reached consensus on early implementation of several CBMs.
Oct 17: Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated scientists on the successful test-firing of indigenously developed nuclear capable cruise missile 'Nirbhay', saying this meant a "great impetus" to the country's defence capabilities.
Oct 17: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley claimed a breakthrough saying the Swiss government has agreed to share information on Indians stashing illicit money there in certain cases, but blamed a 1995 agreement as the constraining factor in disclosing their names.
Oct 18: In a major reform push, the government deregulated diesel prices but hiked natural gas tariff by 46 per cent that will push up fertiliser, power, CNG and PNG rates.
Oct 18: Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag asks his commanders to "continuously assess" the situation in view of the security transition taking place in the neighbourhood and directed them to maintain relentless pressure on terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir to ensure peaceful polls.
Oct 19: Bangalore girl Noyonita Lodh is crowned Yamaha Fascino Miss Diva Universe 2014 after beating 14 finalists across India.
Oct 19: Pritam Munde, the second daughter of late BJP leader Gopinath Munde, scripted Lok Sabha history winning the Beed seat in Maharashtra in a bypoll by a record margin of nearly seven lakh votes.
Oct 19: Knocking out Congress from its bastions, the Modi wave placed BJP on the cusp of forming a government in Maharashtra with unexpected support from NCP while it stormed to power on its own in Haryana.
Oct 20: Delhi Police, probing the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, says it will provide all details sought by a panel of AIIMS doctors so that it can give a "conclusive forensic" report to the investigators.
Oct 20: Regretting that India is way behind in medical research, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked doctors to keep pace with the rapidly changing medical science to remain "relevant".
Oct 21: There is no threat from either al Qaeda or ISIS of a magnitude which the country cannot deal with, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval says but asserted that security agencies were keeping a "very close watch".
Oct 21: The Ordinance to auction coal blocks through an electronic platform got the President's approval, paving the way for a "transparent" allocation process for mines to the private sector, even as trade unions and Left parties opposed the move.
Oct 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi pitched for revamping urban governance while linking it to the 'Digital India' mission and 'Swachh Bharat' campaign.
Oct 22: CBI filed its first charge sheet in the multi-crore Saradha scam naming the company chief Sudipta Sen, close aide Debjani Mukherjee and suspended Trinamool MP Kunal Ghosh, five months after it was ordered by the Supreme Court to probe the case.
Oct 22: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley may have dropped hints that a minister in the previous UPA government could be one of those who had stashed money abroad.
Oct 22: India has grounded its entire Sukhoi-30 fighter plane fleet and is undertaking a thorough technical check after both the pilot seats in one of the aircraft ejected without command during landing, leading to a crash near Pune recently.
Oct 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces a slew of relief measures, including a special package of Rs 745-crore package, from his relief fund for the flood-affected people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Oct 23: Pakistan Rangers violate ceasefire several times and resorted to firing on Border Out Posts along the International Border in Samba, Kathua and Jammu districts, on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Jammu and Kashmir.
Oct 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays a surprise visit to Siachen to celebrate Diwali with soldiers posted at the world's highest battlefield and hailed the role of the armed forces in securing the country.
Oct 24: In fresh ceasefire violation, Pakistan troops fire at forward Indian posts along Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, drawing retaliation from Indian soldiers.
Oct 24: Two days ahead of a planned rally in London by a pro-Pakistan group on Kashmir issue, India warned that forces inimical to Indo-UK relations may utilise such opportunity in open societies.
Oct 24: IAF personnel and their families have been asked not to use Chinese 'Xiaomi Redmi 1s' phones on the ground that data was allegedly transferred to their servers in China and it could be a security risk, a charge denied by the company.
Oct 25: Government has decided to observe the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on October 31 as the 'Rashtriya Ekta Diwas' (National Unity Day) every year, as a mark of tribute to the efforts of the country's first Home Minister to unite India.
Oct 25: Reaching out to the media with which he has had a lukewarm relationship, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had some good words for the press, promising to find a way to interact with it directly.
Oct 25: Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand will be held in five phases between November 25 and December 20 and counting of votes will take place on December 23, the Election Commission announced.
Oct 26: Manohar Lal Khattar, mentored by RSS and known for his organisational skills and clean image, took oath as Haryana Chief Minister, leading the first BJP government in the state since it was created 48 years ago.
Oct 27: President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for making optimum use of modern technology in tackling corruption.
Oct 27: "Polio virus doesn't need any visa to cross border," UNICEF warned polio-free India as the number of cases of the paralysing disease reached an alarming high in Pakistan.
Oct 28: In a first, Delhi Police uses drones fitted with cameras to patrol the skies of the violence-hit Trilokpuri area in East Delhi, where situation improved with no fresh incident of violence and greater relaxation in prohibitory orders.
Oct 28: With fresh inputs on the Burdwan blast indicating pan-India existence of Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Home Minister Rajnath Singh orders immediate neutralisation of the terror modules of the banned group.
Oct 29: Rapped by the Supreme Court, Lt Governor Najeeb Jung is set to kick off consultations with BJP, AAP and Congress in the next couple of days in fresh efforts to install an elected government in the capital or dissolving the assembly to pave way for elections early next year.
Oct 30: Government has decided to give Rs five lakh each to the next of kin of 3,325 victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots triggered after assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Oct 30: Amid a debate on disclosure of names of suspected black money holders, Switzerland says information exchanged under Swiss-India tax treaty cannot be disclosed "in principle" to a court or any other body outside the proceedings of a 'specific and relevant' case.
Oct 31: Prime Minister Narendra Modi skipped the event commemorating the death anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at the Shakti Sthal memorial where President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and top leaders of the Congress paid floral tributes to her.
Oct 31: Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as Chief Minister of the first BJP government in Maharashtra at a grand ceremony where Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray made a last-minute appearance, raising the possibility of a re- approchement between the saffron parties.
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