Saturday Kohima: The Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN)emerges as frontrunner to form the next government in the state with the conglomerate bagging 29 of the 57 seats, results for which were declared, and needing just two more to match the required numbers.

Shillong: The race for power in Meghalaya takes a new turn with the opposition NCP-UDP combine appearing to have stitched up a simple majority and staking claim to form the government to thwart Congress plans.

Panaji: The second autopsy on British teenager Scarlette Eden Keeling claims that the girl was raped and murdered in Goa even as her family members lodged a complaint a police official for misguiding them.

Sunday New Delhi: Clashes between CPI(M) and Sangh Parivar outfits in Kerala has violent fall-out here when RSS-BJP activists attack the marxist party central headquarters triggering a battle between the rival sides that leaves 15 people including five senior CPI(M) leaders injured.

New Delhi: Arms dealer Suresh Nanda, already under scanner in defence deals, is arrested along with his son and two others for allegedly manipulating evidence in his favour in an income tax case, climaxing a chase-and-catch operation seen in Bollywood flicks.

Panaji: Nearly three weeks after a British teenaged girl was found dead on a beach here, police arrest a man on the charge of raping her and filed a case of murder in connection with the death following a second autopsy report.

Monday Siliguri/Kolkata: Facing stiff opposition from agitating Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM), Subash Ghising steps down as caretaker administrator of Darjeeing Gorkha Hill Council after ruling it unchallenged for 20 years and triggering a split in his party's legislature wing.

Shillong: Senior Congress leader D D Lapang is sworn in as Meghalaya Chief Minister by Governor S S Sidhu who rejected the claim of the newly-formed NCP-led Meghalaya Progressive Alliance (MPA) saying the decision was aimed at preventing horse-trading.

Tuesday New Delhi: Government invokes ESMA against employees who threatened to go on strike at Delhi airport and positioned 479 Air Force personnel at 21 airports across the country to deal with any contingency in the wake of the proposed agitation.

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha passes the Rail budget for 2008-09 with minister Lalu Prasad stating that the cumulative surplus in the UPA government's tenure will touch a whopping Rs.1,00,000 crore next year and announces the much-awaited Kolkata-Dhaka service from April 14.

Wednesday New Delhi: The President's Rule imposed in Nagaland over two months ago is revoked paving the way for the formation of the next government.

Chennai: A racket involving South Indian film actors and directors in which they allegedly helped an unspecified number of people get US visas through illegal means has been busted with the arrest of a small-time actress.

Shillong: A day after three independent MLAs extended support to the Congress government in Meghalaya, Chief Minister D D Lapang rewards them with ministerial berths in an apparent signal to fence-sitters ahead of the crucial trust vote on the floor of the assembly. New Delhi/Ahmedabad: In incidents of alleged negligence, two babies were charred to death in hospitals in Delhi and Ahmedabad following a short-circuit in incubator.

Thursday New Delhi: After it failed to make any impact, airport employees call off their two-day-old nationwide agitation claiming that government has assured them that no more airports would be closed down without consulting them.

Panaji: Facing intense criticism, Goa police claims to have cracked the case of myserious death of Scarlette Keelin with the arrest of a second suspect and charges two men with murder of the British teenager.

Friday New Delhi: The Supreme Court issues notices to the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) Chief and former Union Minister Shibu Soren and the CBI on a petition challenging his acquittal in the Shashi Nath Jha murder case.

New Delhi: Hollywood actor and anti-AIDS campaigner Richard Gere who was involved in a kissing row with actress Shipa Shetty gets reprieve from the Supreme Court which stays his arrest warrant issued by a Jaipur court and allows him to visit India freely.

New Delhi: A 10-year-old boy, who protested against his bicycle being damaged, is burnt alive here allegedly by a group of men belonging to a marriage party.

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