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Bangalore, May 16 (IANS) Voting began Friday morning in 66 constituencies in 10 districts of central, coastal and parts of north Karnataka in the second phase of elections for the 224-member state assembly. Over 11 million people are eligible to vote to decide the fate of 589 candidates - an ... Read more...

Kozhikode (Kerala), May 15 (IANS) The bickering between ruling allies - the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) - in Kerala intensified Thursday with the senior leaders of both parties lashing out at one another over proposed food security scheme. The scheme aims at ... Read more...

Kolkata, May 15 (IANS) A relative of Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) leader and West Bengal Irrigation Minister Subhas Naskar was seriously injured Thursday in a crude bomb explosion at his village house at Basanti in South 24 Parganas district of Bengal. "The incident took place around 2.30 p.m. Thursday at ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday issued notice to the union government on a plea by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati to scrap a corruption case against her for owning properties exceeding her legal income. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justices R.V. Raveendran and ... Read more...

By Anil Sharma Jaipur, May 15 (IANS) "This is not a crime, we are in the middle of a war," Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje said Thursday as her government scaled down the number of dead in the horrific terrorist attack here to 61. Addressing her second press conference in as ... Read more...

Hyderabad, May 15 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Thursday launched the ruling Congress party's campaign for the May 29 by-elections. The chief minister launched the campaign in Chevella constituency in Ranga Reddy district near state capital Hyderabad after praying at two local temples. By-elections to four parliament and ... Read more...

Bangalore, May 15 (IANS) Former Karnataka minister B. Sriramulu of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) went missing Thursday after allegedly assaulting a Congress worker on the eve of voting in the politically volatile and iron ore-rich Bellary district, a police official said. "He is absconding and search is on," Bellary ... Read more...

By Kavita Bajeli-Datt Jaipur, May 15 (IANS) "Kahan lagi hai? Kuch dekha tha kya," (Where does it hurt? Did you see anything?) Congress president Sonia Gandhi asked a badly hurt 50-year-old Roshan Lal Sharma, one of the survivors of the terror bomb blasts here that have killed at least 61 people ... Read more...

Jaipur, May 15 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Thursday visited Jaipur's walled city areas that had been ripped apart by a series of blasts and called on the injured at the Sawai Man Singh hospital here. Gandhi, who was accompanied by Home Minister Shivraj Patil and former Rajasthan chief minister ... Read more...

Dharamsala, May 15 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama began his five day visit to Germany Thursday, a spokesman of the Tibetan government-in-exile said here. "At the invitation of the Tibet's Initiative Deutschland, Germany's largest Tibet support group, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is on a visit to Germany ... Read more...

Jaipur, May 15 (ANI): Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil today visited terror-hit areas of Jaipur. Both also met injured who are undergoing treatment in the Sawai Mansingh Hospital and other local hospitals. Condemning the terrorist act, Patil said, Strict action will be taken against those ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 15 (ANI): The Supreme Court today issued a notice to the Centre on a petition filed by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati seeking to quash the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against her in connection with a disproportionate assets case. A Bench headed by Chief ... Read more...

Islamabad, May 15 (ANI): A common friend of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Punjab Governor Lt. General (retired) Khalid Maqbool has had his priviges withdrawn by the Sharif-controlled Punjab Government. This business tycoon friends private jet was once allowed to taxi at Lahore Airport and park in the VIP parking ... Read more...

Islamabad, May 15 (ANI): A common friend of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Punjab Governor Lt. General (retired) Khalid Maqbool has had his priviges withdrawn by the Sharif-controlled Punjab Government. This business tycoon friends private jet was once allowed to taxi at Lahore Airport and park in the VIP parking ... Read more...

Islamabad, May 15 (ANI): A common friend of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Punjab Governor Lt. General (retired) Khalid Maqbool has had his priviges withdrawn by the Sharif-controlled Punjab Government. This business tycoon friends private jet was once allowed to taxi at Lahore Airport and park in the VIP parking ... Read more...

By Nityanand Shukla Ranchi, May 15 (IANS) The Jharkhand government shelled out Rs.350 million on a helicopter to be used during anti-Maoist operations, but policemen say it is ferrying ministers instead. An indigenously manufactured Dhruv helicopter was purchased last year by the government from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for surveillance and ... Read more...

Jaipur, May 15 (ANI): Curfew continued on Thursday in 14 to 15 police station areas of Jaipur, two days after eight serial blasts rocked the city. The curfew has been imposed between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil will visit the ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday ordered suspension till July-end of the ongoing trial of Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal and his two relatives in a Mohali court for alleged corruption. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan ordered the suspension on a plea by Badal's ... Read more...

Chennai, May 14 (IANS) Tamil Nadu's Minister for Social Welfare A.A. Poongothai resigned Wednesday after telephone intercepts indicated she purportedly spoke to a senior police official to shield one of her relatives facing corruption charges. Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi was yet to accept her resignation. He told the assembly the ... Read more...

Thiruvananthapuram, May 14 (IANS) Accusing Kerala's Industries Minister Elamaram Kareem of corruption in awarding the contact for erecting a titanium sponge plant, legislator P.C. George Wednesday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into it. "A similar plant that has already become operational in Japan with a capacity of ... Read more...

Bangalore, May 14 (IANS) Political parties in Karnataka Wednesday ended their campaign for the second phase of polling Friday for 66 assembly seats in 10 districts in central, coastal and northern parts of the state. Over 11 million people are eligible to vote and decide the fate of 589 candidates, ... Read more...

Kozhikode, May 14 (IANS) Congress state president Ramesh Chennithala Wednesday asked Kerala's ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) for a white paper on illegal encroachments on government lands and the area reclaimed after vacating these. "On its first anniversary, the government declared with great fanfare that it will vacate all the ... Read more...

By Anil Sharma, Sahil Makkar, Kavita Bajeli-Datt Jaipur, May 14 (IANS) Curfew was lifted Wednesday evening from Jaipur's terror-hit walled city as the traumatised Rajasthan capital limped back to normalcy after its first bomb attacks left 63 people dead and 216 injured. Hundreds of police and paramilitary personnel, however, patrolled the ... Read more...

Jaipur, May 14 (IANS) Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje Wednesday said the terror attacks that killed 63 people and injured over 200 would affect the tourism industry in the desert state. "The impact will be there. But we will be ensuring and taking all measures to minimise the impact," she ... Read more...

By Anil Sharma Jaipur, May 14 (IANS)Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Wednesday put the death toll in Jaipur's first and horrific terror attack at 63 and said the bombers wanted to ignite Hindu-Muslim tensions. Her Parliamentary Affairs Minister R.S. Rathore said a total of 216 people were injured in the bomb ... Read more...

By Sharat Pradhan Lucknow, May 14 (IANS) It has been a year of demolitions and constructions in the one year that Mayawati has been Uttar Pradesh's chief minister. The Dalit icon has been busy razing and rebuilding huge structures, including those she had ordered to be constructed during her previous three ... Read more...

Ranchi, May 14 (IANS) Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda Wednesday sounded a high alert in the state following the blasts in Jaipur that killed at least 63 people the day before. "This is an act of cowardice. Terrorists will gain nothing from such acts. We condemn the serial blasts," Koda ... Read more...

Jaipur, May 14 (IANS), Curfew has been imposed in parts of Jaipur after serial bomb blasts rocked the city Tuesday evening killing 55 and injuring over 125 persons. "The death toll in the incident had touched 55 till early in the morning. According to our information over 125 persons have ... Read more...

Chandigarh, May 14 (ANI): Counting of votes for Punjab panchayat polls began this morning, amid tight security. The polling for the 324 members of 20 zila parishads and 141 members of panchayat samitis in 12,705 villages was held on May 12. An estimated 67 per cent voters exercised their franchise ... Read more...

Chennai, May 13 (IANS) A three-day standoff in the Tamil Nadu film industry between directors and their assistants came to an end Tuesday following political and police intervention, industry insiders said. The blame game between directors and their assistants was sorted out in an atmosphere of camaraderie, a senior police ... Read more...

Lucknow, May 13 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati announced a number of development projects in sectors like power, higher and technical education and urban development in a function organised here Tuesday, marking her one year in office. In the power sector, Mayawati unveiled the Anpara-D (1,000 MW) thermal power ... Read more...

Bellary (Karnataka), May 13 (ANI): As Karnataka gears up for the second phase of Assembly elections slated for May 16, migrants from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh hold the key in the State's Bellary District. Chief Minister of the neighbouring Congress-ruled Andhra Pradesh Y.S. Rajashekhar Reddy is also campaigning for the Congress ... Read more...

Bangalore, May 13 (ANI): Hoskote Assembly constituency in Bangalores rural District witnessed the highest polling percentage in the first phase with 89.18 per cent. In New Delhi, Election Commission said while in rural areas the polling percentage was 64 per cent, in urban it was 50 per cent. The Election ... Read more...

Noida, May 13 (IANS) A man who impersonated as private secretary of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and asked the Noida additional chief executive officer (ACEO) to award a tender was arrested Tuesday. According to sources, Pankaj Sharma, a resident of Laxmi Bai Nagar in New Delhi, called ACEO Y.K. ... Read more...

Lucknow, May 13 (IANS) A jeep that formed part of Uttar Pradesh Urban Development Minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui's convoy mowed down a man here in Hazratganj Tuesday. The victim, Ashwani Tiwari, was hit by the Scorpio jeep and died on the spot. Tiwari, a fourth class employee, was going to his ... Read more...

Bhopal, May 13 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh's main opposition Congress Tuesday staged a day-long sit-in to protest what it called corruption in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government and demanded Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's resignation. Addressing a gathering here, state Congress president Suresh Pachauri said the people of the state ... Read more...

Bhopal, May 13 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Secretary Rakesh Sahni will head the empowered committee to be set up by the state government to oversee the development of Rs.400 billion ($10 billion) industrial corridor, officials here said. The corridor, part of the Delhi-Mumbai corridor, will go through western Madhya Pradesh. ... Read more...

Lucknow, May 13 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Tuesday made a scathing attack on the Congress-led UPA government, claiming it has adopted a "step-motherly" attitude towards her state and was not doing enough for the development of the backward regions. "The Congress-led union government is adopting a step-motherly attitude ... Read more...

Shillong, May 13 (ANI): Home Minister Shivraj Patil inaugurated the new administrative block of the Assam Rifles here on Tuesday. He later addressed Assam Rifles personnel, telling them that his ministry would ensure the welfare of the paramilitary forces, including redressing anomalies in pay parities between the defence and ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to put any roadblock before the world's cheapest car Nano's planned rollout by the year-end though it issued notices to its producer Tata Motors and the West Bengal government following a petition challenging land acquisition. A bench of Chief Justice ... Read more...

By Liz Mathew New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav Tuesday made his intentions to woo the Congress clearer than before lashing against Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati whom he called "ungrateful" to the ruling party which had helped her come to power a year ago. ... Read more...