Sept 1: Expressing concern over developments in Pakistan, Government says the Ministry of External Affairs is closely watching the situation in the neighbouring country.
Sept 1: Universities need to become drivers of innovation and their focus should be on collaborative relationships with industry and government, President Pranab Mukherjee says.
Sept 1: CBI has begun an internal inquiry to probe leakage of classified documents in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation case as the agency finalised its counter arguments in the Supreme Court tomorrow over charges levelled by an NGO that the agency's Director Ranjit Sinha was delaying trial in the scam.
Sept 2: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is hailed as the architect of economic reforms in the country, is a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, it was announced.
Sept 2: Hard Selling India as a manufacturing destination a day after Japan announced a USD 35 billion investment, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited investors saying the era of"red tape" has been replaced by "red carpet" with ease of doing business and liberalisation.
Sept 3: An investigation against an Indian Army Lieutenant General commanding the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in Syria has been sought by the Philippine military, which accused him of "endangering" the safety of its peacekeeping troops during a stand-off with rebels.
Sept 3: The government has notified new Lokpal search committee rules, giving it more freedom to recommend names for chairperson and members of the anti-corruption body outside the list provided by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).
Sept 3: Brushing aside opposition, the Government appoints former Chief Justice of India Palaniswamy Sathasivam as the new Governor of Kerala.
Sept 4: Nithari serial killer Surinder Koli, who has been sentenced to death for the brutal killing of a 14-year-old girl, will be hanged here on September 12, Jail Superintendent S H M Rizvi says.
Sept 4: 92 women were raped on an average every day in India and the national capital with 1,636 cases recorded the highest number of such crimes among all cities last year.
Sept 4: The Centre sounds a country-wide alert after an al-Qaeda video appeared in which the terror outfit threatened to carry out campaign in India.
Sept 5: Fresh flash floods and landslides in Jammu and Kashmir left 68 persons dead, taking the death toll in the state's worst floods in nearly six decades to 88.
Sept 5: Taking their bilateral ties to new heights, India and Australia inked a landmark civil nuclear deal that will pave way for Canberra to supply uranium to the energy-starved country even as the two sides decided to step up cooperation in defence, security and trade.
Sept 5: On Teachers Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with school children across the country saying girl education is his top priority and the initiative to ensure toilets in all schools was part of this endeavour.
Sept 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed progress of Aadhaar project and is believed to have discussed the possibility of using the platform to resume Aadhaar-based direct benefit transfers of subsidised schemes.
Sept 6: In a major breakthrough, a key Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Ajaz Sheikh, who used to send anonymous mails to media houses claiming responsibility after Jama Masjid and Varanasi blasts in 2010 has been arrested by Delhi Police.
Sept 7: Former Army chief and Union Minister Gen V K Singh, against whom the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) had made some carping comments in the Sukna land scam case, says the case was not pleaded meticulously and demanded that the government should challenge the decision.
Sept 7: HRD Minister Smriti Irani favoured strong linkages between institutes of higher learning and rural India for the development of villages and suggested that they should start courses on rural development.
Sept 8: Emphasising on the need to make Ganga rejuvenation a mass movement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says that the first priority of this mission should be to stop fresh generation of pollutants.
Sept 8: Eager to add a new impetus to Indo-German ties under the Narendra Modi government, Germany says bilateral cooperation can be deepened in renewable energy, infrastructure, cleaning of rivers and vocational training besides high technology and the manufacturing sector.
Sept 8: India signs the free trade agreement (FTA) in services and investments with 10-member ASEAN, paving the way for freer movement of professionals and further opening opportunities for investments.
Sept 9: Highlighting the importance of ties with Malaysia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expresses his keenness to enhance the relationship particularly in trade, investment and tourism sectors.
Sept 9: Completing its over a-year-long probe into Saradha scam, the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) has submitted its final investigation report to the government, which may soon start prosecution proceedings for numerous serious violations found during investigations.
Sept 9: Weeks after India was accused of blocking WTO talks over food subsidy issue, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the country does not stand in the way of rule-based global trade but the interests of its poor and farmers cannot be sacrificed.
Sept 10: BJP President Amit Shah was chargesheeted by the police for his alleged hate speech during campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections.
Sept 10: AAP leaders met the LG and asked him to withdraw the letter to the President seeking his permission to invite the BJP to form the government in Delhi.
Sept 11: The US has delivered the fifth P-8I maritime patrol aircraft to India as part of an eight aircraft contract worth over Rs 12,000 crore in 2009.
Sept 11: Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for making 'Swacch Bharat' into a mass movement and linking it to economic activity to ensure greater participation.
Sept 11: Pakistan says it "could not agree more" with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's "no full stop" in diplomacy remark and noted that the time has come for making a"new beginning" in bilateral ties.
Sept 12: Ignoring attempts by some separatists to disrupt relief operations in Kashmir Valley, government asserted that its main focus was on providing succour to people affected by the worstever floods in 109 years.
Sept 12: As the government prepares to bring a fresh bill in Parliament to repeal archaic laws, the Law Commission recommended revoking 72 obsolete statutes, saying there is an "urgent need" to ensure that the legal structures are responsive to challenges of changing times.
Sept 13: A high-level ministerial team from Jammu and Kashmir called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and requested him to declare the flash floods in the state as "national calamity" and announce a "liberal and pragmatic" financial and special rehabilitation package to restore normalcy at the earliest.
Sept 13: Chief Justice of India R M Lodha asserted that independence of judiciary is "non negotiable" and it has the inherent strength to foil any attempt to interfere with that.
Sept 13: Pakistan today made a strong pitch for normalisation of ties with India after last month's "political setback" and says in diplomacy one should keep or leave the "door ajar" so that whatever was possible could be achieved.
Sept 14: CBI arrested the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Odisha-based Kamyab Television and owner of Odisha Bhaskar newspaper for allegedly siphoning off money from Artha Tatwa (AT) Group, a case registered by the agency while probing the multi-crore Saradha scam.
Sept 14: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan says all assistance will be provided to the state health authorities to tackle any possible epidemic in the aftermath of the devastating floods .
Sept 14: With the arrest of another Sri Lankan national for alleged spying for Pakistan's ISI, central security agencies have stepped up surveillance of vital installations including defence and foreign consulates in southern parts of the country.
Sept 15: Unfazed by the party's gag order, defiant senior Congress leaders Manish Tewari and senior leader Rashid Alvi say they would continue to express their viewpoints even while maintaining that it's time to fight communalism and "not fight and humiliate" each other.
Sept 15: India hit out at Pakistan for its remarks that Hafiz Saeed had no case against him and he was free to roam, saying the designated terrorist was the "evil" mastermind behind the Mumbai attacks and it devolves on Pakistan to bring the chief of terror outfit JuD to book and deliver justice.
Sept 16: The BJP was dealt a severe blow in its strongholds in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat when it lost 13 of the 23 seats held by it there while the Congress put up a surprise showing in two of these states in the Assembly by-elections.
Sept 16: It will be a long, long haul for the people of Kashmir to resume their normal life but a semblance of normalcy is beginning to emerge with waters receding in various places and being pumped out from several other colonies.
Sept 16: The stand-off in Demchok area of Ladakh continues for the 10th day with Chinese nomads now reported to have erected tents with the help of Chinese Army inside Indian territory to protest against an ongoing irrigation canal work.
Sept 17: Chinese army reportedly made a fresh incursion in Chumar area (in eastern ladakh) and refused to return even as a flag-meeting between the two sides is believed to have made no headway in breaking the deadlock.
Sept 17: India and China sign a three-Gujarat specific pacts shortly after Chinese President Xi Jinping commenced his three-day visit to the country from the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Sept 17: President Pranab Mukherjee says India's pact with Vietnam for possible oil exploration in the disputed South China Sea was "just a commercial action" and the country has never commented about issues of "sovereignty" over those waters.
Sept 18: After heightened tension in Chumar area in Northeast Ladakh for four days, Chinese troops began withdrawing from the Indian territory, official sources say.
Sept 18: India and China inks 12 pacts in a range of areas including railways and outer space as Beijing pledged investments of USD 20 billion over five years in a bid to boost economic ties and address India's concerns over trade deficit.
Sept 19: As they aim to reset ties, India and China have resolved to pursue finding an early solution to the thorny boundary issue as a "strategic objective", noting that an early settlement of the dispute will advance their basic interests.
Sept 19: The death toll due to the floods in Jammu and Kashmir has climbed to 280 even as Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expressed hope that the toll would not be as high as feared earlier.
Sept 19: Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and lauded his focus on sanitation and the ambitious scheme to bring the poor people under the banking system through the Jan Dhan Yojana.
Sept 20: An IAF AN-32 transport aircraft with 11 people on board crash landed tonight at Chandigarh airport but all are safe.
Sept 20: CBI moved the Supreme Court with a fresh perjury application against noted lawyers Prashant Bhushan and Kamini Jaiswal and their NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation for allegedly making false statements before the apex court against CBI Chief Ranjit Sinha.
Sept 20: India offers Bangladesh expertise in civil nuclear sector and outer space during a meeting between their Foreign Ministers but the meet could not make any major headway on emotive issues of Land Boundary Agreement, Teesta water sharing and extradition of ULFA leader Anup Chetia.
Sept 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has criticised frequent remarks made by political pundits on the "root cause" of violence against women and asserted that there should be no compromise on the issue of dignity of women.
Sept 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India has a chance to rise again as a global economic power and suggested that it could match with China and he has a "clear roadmap" to channelise entrepreneurial capabilities of country's 1.25 billion people.
Sept 21: Nalini Chidamabaram, wife of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, has been examined by CBI in conection with the alleged multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam.
Sept 22: National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a supplementary charge sheet against 20 alleged operatives of banned terror group Indian Mujahideen(IM), including Haidar Ali alias "Black beauty", for waging war against the country.
Sept 22: Barely 10 days after he resigned, CBI arrested Odisha's former Advocate General Ashok Mohanty for allegedly abusing his official position and misappropriating funds of Artha Tatwa Group of companies in a case which is an offshoot of Saradha chit fund scam.
Sept 22: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh took stock of the "large scale damage" to border fencing and BSF posts due to floods in Jammu and Kashmir and asked the border guarding force to keep strict vigil on this frontier to curb infiltration.
Sept 23: Enforcement Directorate initiated its first action in the money laundering probe in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal with the arrest of Gautam Khaitan, alleged to be an "important" link in connection with kickbacks of this scam.
Sept 23: In a spine-chilling incident, a 20-year-old youth was today mauled to death by a white tiger when he fell into its enclosure at the Delhi Zoo.
Sept 24: Government decided to withdraw a controversial legislation which sought to create an overarching body in the higher education subsuming existing regulatory bodies such as UGC, AICTE and NCTE.
Sept 24: The Supreme Court scraps allocation of 214 out of 218 coal blocks to various companies since 1993 terming it as "fatally flawed", an order that could have serious implications for the energy sector and a pay out of Rs.7,900 crore as fine by affected corporates.
Sept 24: India was basking in the success of its Mars Orbiter Mission as Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the country in applauding the ISRO scientists for achieving the "miracle" on a shoestring budget and the international community hailed the feat.
Sept 25: Long-standing political formations in Maharashtra crumbled with BJP snapping its 25-year old alliance with the Shiv Sena and NCP parting ways with the Congress and pulling out of the government, raising the possibility of at least a four-cornered contest in the October 15 Assembly polls.
Sept 25: In a bid to make the country a manufacturing hub, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised easy and effective governance to enable ease of doing business as he launched the 'Make in India' campaign at an event where the government hinted at amending labour laws.
Sept 25: All central government employees have been asked to be present in their offices on October 2 to take cleanliness pledge as part of the Narendra Modi government's 'Clean India' campaign.
Sept 26: A day after parting ways with its oldest ally Shiv Sena, BJP released its first list of 172 candidates for the October 15 Maharashtra Assembly elections that includes its top leaders in the state.
Sept 26: After a fortnight of incursions, Chinese troops started withdrawing from India's Chumar area in Ladakh following talks between the two armies.
Sept 27: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa is sentenced to four years in jail in an 18-year-old corruption case and fined a staggering Rs 100 crore by a special court whose verdict unseats her from the post and could send her to political exile for 10 years.
Sept 27: Union Cabinet recommends President's Rule in assembly poll-bound Maharashtra, a day after Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan resigned following the end of 15-year-old Congress-NCP alliance in the state.
Sept 28: Handpicked by J Jayalalithaa, O Panneerselvam, the 'Mr Faithful' of the AIADMK supremo, is all set to be the new Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu after he was today elected as leader of the legislature party in the wake of her conviction in an illegal assets case.
Sept 28: President's rule is imposed in poll-bound Maharashtra, three days after the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) snapped its 15-year-old ties with the Congress reducing the Prithviraj Chavan government to a minority.
Sept 28: Justice H L Dattu, who has been heading the bench monitoring probe into the 2G scam, is sworn in as the next Chief Justice of India by President Pranab Mukherjee and will have a tenure of 14 months.
Sept 1: Universities need to become drivers of innovation and their focus should be on collaborative relationships with industry and government, President Pranab Mukherjee says.
Sept 1: CBI has begun an internal inquiry to probe leakage of classified documents in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation case as the agency finalised its counter arguments in the Supreme Court tomorrow over charges levelled by an NGO that the agency's Director Ranjit Sinha was delaying trial in the scam.
Sept 2: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is hailed as the architect of economic reforms in the country, is a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, it was announced.
Sept 2: Hard Selling India as a manufacturing destination a day after Japan announced a USD 35 billion investment, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited investors saying the era of"red tape" has been replaced by "red carpet" with ease of doing business and liberalisation.
Sept 3: An investigation against an Indian Army Lieutenant General commanding the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in Syria has been sought by the Philippine military, which accused him of "endangering" the safety of its peacekeeping troops during a stand-off with rebels.
Sept 3: The government has notified new Lokpal search committee rules, giving it more freedom to recommend names for chairperson and members of the anti-corruption body outside the list provided by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).
Sept 3: Brushing aside opposition, the Government appoints former Chief Justice of India Palaniswamy Sathasivam as the new Governor of Kerala.
Sept 4: Nithari serial killer Surinder Koli, who has been sentenced to death for the brutal killing of a 14-year-old girl, will be hanged here on September 12, Jail Superintendent S H M Rizvi says.
Sept 4: 92 women were raped on an average every day in India and the national capital with 1,636 cases recorded the highest number of such crimes among all cities last year.
Sept 4: The Centre sounds a country-wide alert after an al-Qaeda video appeared in which the terror outfit threatened to carry out campaign in India.
Sept 5: Fresh flash floods and landslides in Jammu and Kashmir left 68 persons dead, taking the death toll in the state's worst floods in nearly six decades to 88.
Sept 5: Taking their bilateral ties to new heights, India and Australia inked a landmark civil nuclear deal that will pave way for Canberra to supply uranium to the energy-starved country even as the two sides decided to step up cooperation in defence, security and trade.
Sept 5: On Teachers Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with school children across the country saying girl education is his top priority and the initiative to ensure toilets in all schools was part of this endeavour.
Sept 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed progress of Aadhaar project and is believed to have discussed the possibility of using the platform to resume Aadhaar-based direct benefit transfers of subsidised schemes.
Sept 6: In a major breakthrough, a key Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Ajaz Sheikh, who used to send anonymous mails to media houses claiming responsibility after Jama Masjid and Varanasi blasts in 2010 has been arrested by Delhi Police.
Sept 7: Former Army chief and Union Minister Gen V K Singh, against whom the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) had made some carping comments in the Sukna land scam case, says the case was not pleaded meticulously and demanded that the government should challenge the decision.
Sept 7: HRD Minister Smriti Irani favoured strong linkages between institutes of higher learning and rural India for the development of villages and suggested that they should start courses on rural development.
Sept 8: Emphasising on the need to make Ganga rejuvenation a mass movement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says that the first priority of this mission should be to stop fresh generation of pollutants.
Sept 8: Eager to add a new impetus to Indo-German ties under the Narendra Modi government, Germany says bilateral cooperation can be deepened in renewable energy, infrastructure, cleaning of rivers and vocational training besides high technology and the manufacturing sector.
Sept 8: India signs the free trade agreement (FTA) in services and investments with 10-member ASEAN, paving the way for freer movement of professionals and further opening opportunities for investments.
Sept 9: Highlighting the importance of ties with Malaysia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expresses his keenness to enhance the relationship particularly in trade, investment and tourism sectors.
Sept 9: Completing its over a-year-long probe into Saradha scam, the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) has submitted its final investigation report to the government, which may soon start prosecution proceedings for numerous serious violations found during investigations.
Sept 9: Weeks after India was accused of blocking WTO talks over food subsidy issue, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the country does not stand in the way of rule-based global trade but the interests of its poor and farmers cannot be sacrificed.
Sept 10: BJP President Amit Shah was chargesheeted by the police for his alleged hate speech during campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections.
Sept 10: AAP leaders met the LG and asked him to withdraw the letter to the President seeking his permission to invite the BJP to form the government in Delhi.
Sept 11: The US has delivered the fifth P-8I maritime patrol aircraft to India as part of an eight aircraft contract worth over Rs 12,000 crore in 2009.
Sept 11: Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for making 'Swacch Bharat' into a mass movement and linking it to economic activity to ensure greater participation.
Sept 11: Pakistan says it "could not agree more" with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's "no full stop" in diplomacy remark and noted that the time has come for making a"new beginning" in bilateral ties.
Sept 12: Ignoring attempts by some separatists to disrupt relief operations in Kashmir Valley, government asserted that its main focus was on providing succour to people affected by the worstever floods in 109 years.
Sept 12: As the government prepares to bring a fresh bill in Parliament to repeal archaic laws, the Law Commission recommended revoking 72 obsolete statutes, saying there is an "urgent need" to ensure that the legal structures are responsive to challenges of changing times.
Sept 13: A high-level ministerial team from Jammu and Kashmir called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and requested him to declare the flash floods in the state as "national calamity" and announce a "liberal and pragmatic" financial and special rehabilitation package to restore normalcy at the earliest.
Sept 13: Chief Justice of India R M Lodha asserted that independence of judiciary is "non negotiable" and it has the inherent strength to foil any attempt to interfere with that.
Sept 13: Pakistan today made a strong pitch for normalisation of ties with India after last month's "political setback" and says in diplomacy one should keep or leave the "door ajar" so that whatever was possible could be achieved.
Sept 14: CBI arrested the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Odisha-based Kamyab Television and owner of Odisha Bhaskar newspaper for allegedly siphoning off money from Artha Tatwa (AT) Group, a case registered by the agency while probing the multi-crore Saradha scam.
Sept 14: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan says all assistance will be provided to the state health authorities to tackle any possible epidemic in the aftermath of the devastating floods .
Sept 14: With the arrest of another Sri Lankan national for alleged spying for Pakistan's ISI, central security agencies have stepped up surveillance of vital installations including defence and foreign consulates in southern parts of the country.
Sept 15: Unfazed by the party's gag order, defiant senior Congress leaders Manish Tewari and senior leader Rashid Alvi say they would continue to express their viewpoints even while maintaining that it's time to fight communalism and "not fight and humiliate" each other.
Sept 15: India hit out at Pakistan for its remarks that Hafiz Saeed had no case against him and he was free to roam, saying the designated terrorist was the "evil" mastermind behind the Mumbai attacks and it devolves on Pakistan to bring the chief of terror outfit JuD to book and deliver justice.
Sept 16: The BJP was dealt a severe blow in its strongholds in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat when it lost 13 of the 23 seats held by it there while the Congress put up a surprise showing in two of these states in the Assembly by-elections.
Sept 16: It will be a long, long haul for the people of Kashmir to resume their normal life but a semblance of normalcy is beginning to emerge with waters receding in various places and being pumped out from several other colonies.
Sept 16: The stand-off in Demchok area of Ladakh continues for the 10th day with Chinese nomads now reported to have erected tents with the help of Chinese Army inside Indian territory to protest against an ongoing irrigation canal work.
Sept 17: Chinese army reportedly made a fresh incursion in Chumar area (in eastern ladakh) and refused to return even as a flag-meeting between the two sides is believed to have made no headway in breaking the deadlock.
Sept 17: India and China sign a three-Gujarat specific pacts shortly after Chinese President Xi Jinping commenced his three-day visit to the country from the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Sept 17: President Pranab Mukherjee says India's pact with Vietnam for possible oil exploration in the disputed South China Sea was "just a commercial action" and the country has never commented about issues of "sovereignty" over those waters.
Sept 18: After heightened tension in Chumar area in Northeast Ladakh for four days, Chinese troops began withdrawing from the Indian territory, official sources say.
Sept 18: India and China inks 12 pacts in a range of areas including railways and outer space as Beijing pledged investments of USD 20 billion over five years in a bid to boost economic ties and address India's concerns over trade deficit.
Sept 19: As they aim to reset ties, India and China have resolved to pursue finding an early solution to the thorny boundary issue as a "strategic objective", noting that an early settlement of the dispute will advance their basic interests.
Sept 19: The death toll due to the floods in Jammu and Kashmir has climbed to 280 even as Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expressed hope that the toll would not be as high as feared earlier.
Sept 19: Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and lauded his focus on sanitation and the ambitious scheme to bring the poor people under the banking system through the Jan Dhan Yojana.
Sept 20: An IAF AN-32 transport aircraft with 11 people on board crash landed tonight at Chandigarh airport but all are safe.
Sept 20: CBI moved the Supreme Court with a fresh perjury application against noted lawyers Prashant Bhushan and Kamini Jaiswal and their NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation for allegedly making false statements before the apex court against CBI Chief Ranjit Sinha.
Sept 20: India offers Bangladesh expertise in civil nuclear sector and outer space during a meeting between their Foreign Ministers but the meet could not make any major headway on emotive issues of Land Boundary Agreement, Teesta water sharing and extradition of ULFA leader Anup Chetia.
Sept 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has criticised frequent remarks made by political pundits on the "root cause" of violence against women and asserted that there should be no compromise on the issue of dignity of women.
Sept 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India has a chance to rise again as a global economic power and suggested that it could match with China and he has a "clear roadmap" to channelise entrepreneurial capabilities of country's 1.25 billion people.
Sept 21: Nalini Chidamabaram, wife of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, has been examined by CBI in conection with the alleged multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam.
Sept 22: National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a supplementary charge sheet against 20 alleged operatives of banned terror group Indian Mujahideen(IM), including Haidar Ali alias "Black beauty", for waging war against the country.
Sept 22: Barely 10 days after he resigned, CBI arrested Odisha's former Advocate General Ashok Mohanty for allegedly abusing his official position and misappropriating funds of Artha Tatwa Group of companies in a case which is an offshoot of Saradha chit fund scam.
Sept 22: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh took stock of the "large scale damage" to border fencing and BSF posts due to floods in Jammu and Kashmir and asked the border guarding force to keep strict vigil on this frontier to curb infiltration.
Sept 23: Enforcement Directorate initiated its first action in the money laundering probe in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal with the arrest of Gautam Khaitan, alleged to be an "important" link in connection with kickbacks of this scam.
Sept 23: In a spine-chilling incident, a 20-year-old youth was today mauled to death by a white tiger when he fell into its enclosure at the Delhi Zoo.
Sept 24: Government decided to withdraw a controversial legislation which sought to create an overarching body in the higher education subsuming existing regulatory bodies such as UGC, AICTE and NCTE.
Sept 24: The Supreme Court scraps allocation of 214 out of 218 coal blocks to various companies since 1993 terming it as "fatally flawed", an order that could have serious implications for the energy sector and a pay out of Rs.7,900 crore as fine by affected corporates.
Sept 24: India was basking in the success of its Mars Orbiter Mission as Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the country in applauding the ISRO scientists for achieving the "miracle" on a shoestring budget and the international community hailed the feat.
Sept 25: Long-standing political formations in Maharashtra crumbled with BJP snapping its 25-year old alliance with the Shiv Sena and NCP parting ways with the Congress and pulling out of the government, raising the possibility of at least a four-cornered contest in the October 15 Assembly polls.
Sept 25: In a bid to make the country a manufacturing hub, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised easy and effective governance to enable ease of doing business as he launched the 'Make in India' campaign at an event where the government hinted at amending labour laws.
Sept 25: All central government employees have been asked to be present in their offices on October 2 to take cleanliness pledge as part of the Narendra Modi government's 'Clean India' campaign.
Sept 26: A day after parting ways with its oldest ally Shiv Sena, BJP released its first list of 172 candidates for the October 15 Maharashtra Assembly elections that includes its top leaders in the state.
Sept 26: After a fortnight of incursions, Chinese troops started withdrawing from India's Chumar area in Ladakh following talks between the two armies.
Sept 27: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa is sentenced to four years in jail in an 18-year-old corruption case and fined a staggering Rs 100 crore by a special court whose verdict unseats her from the post and could send her to political exile for 10 years.
Sept 27: Union Cabinet recommends President's Rule in assembly poll-bound Maharashtra, a day after Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan resigned following the end of 15-year-old Congress-NCP alliance in the state.
Sept 28: Handpicked by J Jayalalithaa, O Panneerselvam, the 'Mr Faithful' of the AIADMK supremo, is all set to be the new Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu after he was today elected as leader of the legislature party in the wake of her conviction in an illegal assets case.
Sept 28: President's rule is imposed in poll-bound Maharashtra, three days after the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) snapped its 15-year-old ties with the Congress reducing the Prithviraj Chavan government to a minority.
Sept 28: Justice H L Dattu, who has been heading the bench monitoring probe into the 2G scam, is sworn in as the next Chief Justice of India by President Pranab Mukherjee and will have a tenure of 14 months.
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