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Most parties favour single-day polling in States
NEW DELHI, FEB. 20.Most political parties today urged the Election Commission to have a single-day poll in States wherever possible instead of staggering them over a few days. All the Opposition parties took exception to the advertisement ...

Two children among 4 killed as MiG crashes
AHMEDABAD, FEB. 20. Four persons, including two children were killd as an Indian Air Force MiG aircraft crashed near the Jamnagar airbase in the Saurashtra region. Unconfirmed reports, however, put the toll at five. A Defence Department ...

A second crash this month
NEW DELHI, FEB. 20.The MiG-21 plane that crashed in a Gujarat village this morning was a type 96 variant, which is to be phased out. The crash comes a few months after the Indian Air Force's chief of maintenance asserted that that the problem ...

Rural electrification scheme to be speeded up
NEW DELHI, FEB. 20. The Centre today announced several more welfare measures. The new package of sops include a programme to accelerate the electrification scheme in rural areas with a goal of providing electricity to one lakh villages and one ...

BJP leaning on dancers and singers: Mayawati
MUMBAI, FEB. 20. The Bahujan Samaj Party president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati, denied here today that her party had decided to go it alone or to have any tie-up with any other party. Launching the party's poll campaign ...

Other Stories

  • Breakthrough in Akshardham probe
  • D.P. Yadav joins BJP
  • Centre revises relief norms for drought-hit States
  • Sukhoi engine problems being sorted out: Fernandes
  • Opposition lacks leadership: Joshi
  • 7 Lashkar men killed in Poonch
  • Court informed of Pakistanis' deportation
  • NBCC may take up Bihar road works
  • Centre plans to upgrade Bodhgaya
  • West Bengal roses for Zurich
  • Proposal to cut HRD Ministry allocation to North East opposed
  • AICCTU to campaign against `India Shining'
  • Sudip stubborn
  • NCW plea to parties
  • No guarantees in current process, says peace activist
  • What the windfall means for the Central staff
  • 3 TISCO officials trapped in colliery
  • Shourie says sorry, but stands by criticism



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