| May. 1 | The body of slain Hyderabad engineer Kasula Suryanarayana is brought home. His wife Manjula attempts suicide. | Full Story |
| | The IAF bids adieu to MIG-25s the Russian-built spy plane inducted in 1981. | Full Story |
| | Violence rocks Vadodara in Gujx arat following the demolition of a dargah by the civic staff and four persons are killed. | Full Story |
| | The Supreme Court stays trial in the Sankararaman murder case. | Full Story |
| May. 2 | Rafi Vora is burnt alive in his car by a mob in Vadodara. | Full Story |
| | Child prodigy Budhia Singh a four-and-a-half year old enters the Limca Book of Records by running 65 km from Puri Jagannath Temple to Bhubaneswar in 7.02 hours. | Full Story |
| May. 3 | The BJP general secretary, Pramod Mahajan, dies in the P. D. Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai after a 12-day battle for survival after being shot by his younger brother Pravin. | Full Story |
| | Around 74 per cent polling is recorded in the third and final phase of Kerala Assembly election. | Full Story |
| May. 6 | The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, wins the Budhni byelection by a margin of 36,525 votes. | Full Story |
| | Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat, a Hizbul Mujahideen explosives expert and mastermind of most car bomb attacks in J and K since 2004 is killed in an encounter in Nooripora area. | Full Story |
| May. 8 | The Supreme Court declines the Narmada Bachao Andolan's plea to stop work on raising the Sardar Sarovar dam height. | Full Story |
| | Sixtyfive per cent of voters cast votes in Tamil Nadu Assembly polls. | Full Story |
| May. 10 | The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal drops its "tentative" order on experts panel. | Full Story |
| | The Sensex touches an all-time closing high of 12612.38 points. | Full Story |
| May. 11 | The DMK-led Democratic Progressive Alliance wins a comfortable majority in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. In Pondicherry the DPA led by the Congress emerges victorious. | Full Story |
| | The Congress party emerges as the single largest party in Assam polls. | Full Story |
| | The Left Front sweeps to power for a record seventh successive time with more than a two-thirds majority in the 14th West Bengal Assembly polls. | Full Story |
| | In Kerala, the LDF wins an impressive two-thirds majority. | Full Story |
| | The Congress President, Sonia Gandhi wins the Rae Bareli by-election by a margin of 4 lakh votes. | Full Story |
| | The Union Government notifies the Patents (Amendment) Rules 2006. | Full Story |
| May. 13 | The DMK Government headed by M. Karunanidhi is sworn in by the Governor, Surjit Singh Barnala. | Full Story |
| | L.K. Tripathy is appointed Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu and D. Mukherjee to be the new DGP. | Full Story |
| May. 14 | Tarun Gogoi is sworn in for a second term as Assam Chief Minister. | Full Story |
| | Medicos launch an indefinite hunger strike at the AIIMS, New Delhi, protesting against the Centre's move to raise quota in higher education. | Full Story |
| May. 16 | The anti-reservation stir hits work in State-run hospitals in many States. | Full Story |
| | The Lok Sabha passes the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Bill, 2006, which seeks to address the office-of-profit controversy. | Full Story |
| May. 17 | The Defence Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, releases the first ever Joint War Doctrine at the united commanders' meet in New Delhi. | Full Story |
| May. 18 | Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is sworn in Chief Minister of West Bengal's seventh consecutive Left Front Government, in Kolkata. | Full Story |
| | V.S. Achuthanandan is sworn in Kerala Chief Minister heading a 19-member Cabinet. | Full Story |
| | N. Rangasamy assumes office as Pondicherry Chief Minister for a second successive term. | Full Story |
| | Sensex sheds 826.38 points, the highest ever fall in the history of Indian stock markets. | Full Story |
| May. 19 | The Tarun Gogoi-led Congress-Bodoland People's Progressive Front (Hagrama) coalition Ministry is sworn in in Assam. | Full Story |
| | R. Avudaiappan and V.P. Duraisamy are declared elected Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Assembly. | Full Story |
| May. 20 | The Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Minister, P.T.R. Palanivel Rajan, dies following a massive heart attack in Dindigul. | Full Story |
| May. 22 | Sensex falls by 1111.70 points, the sharpest-ever slump in prices on a single day. | Full Story |
| May. 23 | The UPA and the Left parties announce 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in Central educational institutions from June 2007. | Full Story |
| May. 25 | D. Mukherjee assumes office as Tamil Nadu DGP. | |
| | Jaiprakash Jaiswal, a scrap dealer of Kolkata wins Rs. 17.29 crore, the highest-ever lottery prize money in the country. | Full Story |
| May. 26 | The Union Cabinet okays proposal to rename Pondicherry as Puducherry. | Full Story |
| May. 30 | The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, returns the Office of Profit Bill for reconsideration. | Full Story |
| May. 31 | Resident doctors of the AIIMS, New Delhi, call off their 19-day-old strike against the reservation policy. | Full Story |
| | The Tamil Nadu Assembly passes a Bill granting 69 per cent reservation for backward classes in all private educational institutions. | Full Story |
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