Today's 5 (22/06) - No consensus in the final meeting over Lokpal Bill.

Anna Hazare might fast again from Aug 16. - George Papandreou (Greek PM) survives the confidence vote. Lawmakers vote 155 to 143 in favor of Papandreou. - Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi might change her stance on non-violence. Says she is not completely opposed to violence. - 4 naxalites held guilty in the Chilkhari massacre case. - Obama might call back 10,000 troops from Afghanistan. Major step towards giving Afghanistan complete control over their security by 2014. Today's 5 (23/06) - Food inflation now stands at 9.13%, rising from 8.16% last week. - Home Ministry orders probe into ex-CJI Balakrishnan's assets. - Forbes names Shiv Nadar, Azim Premji, Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao and Vivek Oberoi in the list of Asian Heroes of Philanthropy. - Nirupama Rao to be the next Indian ambassador to the US - Women Reservation Bill still log-jammed in the Lok Sabha. Meeting convened by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar to resolve disputes over the Bill unsuccessful. Today's 5 (24/06) - Government plans to introduce a "Right to Privacy Bill" in the Parliament which will make intercepting phone calls and bugging serious crimes with punishment as five years of imprisonment and fine of one lakh. - Well known Bengali singer Mrinal Chakraborty passes away. - Arindam Chaudhuri files a Rs. 50 crore law suit against magazine 'The Caravan', Penguin and Google in Assam. - Hina Rabbani Khar to be Pakistan's next Foreign Minister. - Barack Obama announces that all 33,000 US surge troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by next summer. Today's 5 (25/06) - UNESCO identifies the Kenya Lake System, Australia's Ningaloo Coast, the Ogasawara Islands of Japan, the Saloum Delta in Senegal and the West Lake Cultural Lan dscape of Hangzhou in China as the newest entrants on the World Heritage list. - Governor Andrew Cuomo makes same-sex marriages legal in New York. - Law Commission of India is set to recommend making offence under Section 498A compoundable (Which essentially means that the husband and in-laws of a complainant will have the choice of compromising and getting the case off their back, provided the woman agrees to it.) - Spain will withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has said. - 28 years since Indian cricket team lifted it's first world cup- 25th June, 1983.

Today's 5 (26/06) - NIA, Natgrid also now out of RTI ambit. - Iron Age burial site found near Tiruvannamalai. - Saina Nehwal loses at the Indonesian Open finals. - Gujrat government challenges the Godhra verdict before the High Court. - Prominent Chinese Dissident Hu Jia is freed from jail. Today s 5 (27/07) - Anjali Joseph, author of 'Swarasati Park' bags the Desmond Elliot Prize - Section 144 CrPC imposed in Lucknow on the eve of Congress protest rally over Dr Sachan's death. - Hu Jia, China's known dissident, is out of jail after 3 years. - Ranjan Mathai is new India's foreign secretary. - Kolkata HC refuses to pass interim injunction to restrain the W.B. government from distributing to farmers in Singur the land acquired earlier to set up Tata'a car manufacturing unit. Today's 3 (28/06) (Sorry folks, it's only 3 today :) ) - R S Gujral is India's new Revenue Secretary - Myanmar blacklists and deports actress Michelle Yeoh, who plans to play Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. - Tata Motors moves SC on the Singur land issue Today's 5 (29/06) - Australian Michael Jack Nobbs named Indian Hockey team coach. - Supreme Court halts Singur land transfer to farmers by the UP government. - French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde is the new head of IMF. - Sania Mirza Elena Vesnina reach Wimbledon Ladies doubles quarters. - Mandeep Kaur and Juana Murmu, two Indian athletes, suspended after failing the dope test. Today's 5 (01/07) - China opens world s longest (26.4 mile) sea bridge. - Maria Susairaj sentenced to three years (she'll walk free as she has been in the prison since past three years) and Emile Jerome, an ex-navy officer, sentenced to 10 years in prison in the Neeraj Grover murder case. - Sini Jose, member of India's 4x400 m women s relay squad, joins the hall of shame as she also tests positive for banned anabolic steroids. - The Sri Lankan government dissolves country's cricket board amid claims of corruption and mismanagement. - Sessions court in Mumbai rejects the bail plea of Pune stud farm owner and alleged tax defaulter Hasan Ali Khan and his aide Kashinath Tapuriah. Today's 5 (02/07) - Charlene Wittstock, one time Olympic swimmer, is the new princess of Monaco.

- Leon Panetta, former CIA director sworn in as Secretary of Defence of the US. - Djokovic to clash with Nadal in the Wimbledon finals. - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former IMF chief, who was under house arrest on charges of attempted rape, walks out on bail. - After Greece, even Italian cabinet approves tough austerity plan, contains $66.7bn of deficit cuts.

Today's 5 (04/07) - Hansraj Saxena, COO of Sun Pictures, arrested over an alleged fraud in purchasing the telecast rights of a Tamil film. - Thailand gets first woman Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra - Matthew Olsen is the new Counter-terrorism chief for the US. - Djokovic defeats Nadal to clinch the Wimbledon title - Supreme Court appoints a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for investigation of black money stashed abroad. The SIT is comprised of the former apex court judges BP Jeevan Reddy and MB Shah.

Today's 5 (05/07) - Bar on PD Dinakaran's impeachment lifted. However, Sr.Advocate PP Rao will no more be the part of inquiry panel against Dinakaran. - CIC directs CBI officials to declare assets and source of income in the past 10 years. - Appointing tribals as Special Police Officers and arming them to counter Maoists unconstitutional: Supr eme Court - Athletics coach Ogrodnik (Ukraine) sacked after the doping fiasco. - India ranks third on the Transparency Report released by Google.