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AUGUST 29 , 2005

Six people are killed and nine injured when Rassiwala Building at 2nd Marine Street, Dhobi Talao , Mumbai crashes. (Khaleej Times)

AUGUST 25 , 2005

Expressing concern over the sale and use of Mill Land s in Mumbai , Congress MP s in the Rajya Sabha seek Central intervention and an inquiry into the issue. (Calcutta Telegraph)

The foreign minister of India , Natwar Singh calls on Pakistan High Commissioner Aziz Ahmed Khan to plead the case of Sarabjit Singh . (NDTV.com)

AUGUST 19 , 2005

Indian Navy 's Russia n-made Kamov 28 helicopter crashes in the jungles of Khanapur in Belgaum District in Karnataka killing six senior-level navy officers on board. (Times of India)

AUGUST 15 , 2005

Naxalite s in Andhra Pradesh kill senior Congress MLA C Narsi Reddy in the first strike on the party since it came to power in the state. Reddy was inaugurating a school building near Narayanpet town. His son and seven others, including a municipal commissioner, were also killed. (NDTV) (Press Trust of India)

An Improvised Explosive Device , believed to have been planted two months ago, goes off barely 100 yards from where Jammu And Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was to take the Independence Day salute in Srinagar . (Deccan Herald) (Sify)

AUGUST 13 , 2005

Two days after Pakistan tested its first-ever Cruise Missile ''Babur'', Defence Minister Of India , Pranab Mukherjee says that India 's missile programme is "progressing on schedule without any glitches". (Indian Express)

AUGUST 12 , 2005

Kashmir i insurgents kill two defence committee soldiers and three members of their families, and injured nine others, three of them critically, in Mahore area of Udhampur district. (Economic Times)

AUGUST 11 , 2005

Dr Vimal Mundada , Health Minister Of Maharashtra declares an Epidemic of Leptospirosis in Mumbai and its outskirts. It is later clarified by the government that there is no such threat even as 22 more people die taking the total toll of the outbreak to 66. 447 people are admitted to hospitals with undiagnosed fever taking the total number of such admissions since August 7 to 749. (Economic Times) (Financial Express)

AUGUST 9 , 2005

Two bombs explode in a Mumbai -bound Andhra Pradesh State Transport bus at the Karimnagar bus stand. Fifteen passengers sustain injuries, two of them seriously, in the attack. (NDTV.com)

AUGUST 6 , 2005

The United Liberation Front Of Asom blows up the main Crude Oil pipeline of Oil India Limited in Sibsagar District . (Hindustan Times)

AUGUST 2 , 2005

Anil Ambani , chairman and MD of Reliance Energy Ltd. that supplies Power to Mumbai's suburbs apologises to customers who had to go without power for a week and claims power would be restored within 24 hours. (Rediff)

Salil Chaturvedi , owner of apparel brand Provogue , is arrested in connection with a drugs supply case. (Sify)

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