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Assam
CPI demands CBI probe into oil pilferage scam
GUWAHATI, MAY 4. A new dimension to the crude oil pilferage scam was added today with the Assam unit of the Communist Party of India (CPI) alleging that part of the scam money had found its way into the State Congress' coffers. Promode Gogoi, CPI ...

Bihar
EC deputes more observers for Madhepura
PATNA, MAY 4. Amid tight security within the State and along the Indo-Nepal border, 12 constituencies in the State go to the polls tomorrow. All eyes are on Madhepura where the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief, Laloo Prasad Yadav, and the Janata Dal ...

Haryana
Congress expels ex-MP, son
CHANDIGARH, MAY 4.Congress has expelled former MP Chiranji Lal Sharma and his son Ashok Sharma from the party for six years for anti-party activities. The Haryana Congress chief, Bhajan Lal, today said the action has been taken against the ...

Jammu & Kashmir
Anti-election rally in Anantnag dispersed
ANANTNAG, MAY 4. Police opened fire in the air to disperse an anti-election rally here and arrested four top Kashmiri separatist leaders of whom two were injured in a scuffle with police. South Kashmir's twin districts of Anantnag and Pulwama ...

Madhya Pradesh
Congress prestige at stake in M.P.
BHOPAL, MAY 4. In the third phase of polling for the Lok Sabha elections tomorrow, 1.52 crore voters would decide the fate of 139 candidates in the race for 12 of the 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh. The 12 constituencies ...

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  • Revision plea against Dharmendra filed

    Maharashtra
    Reuters photographer bags many awards
    MUMBAI, MAY 4. Reuters photographer Arko Datta bagged most of the awards in the Mumbai Press Photo Contest 2004 organised by the Mumbai Press Club. Mr. Datta was adjudged the best general news photographer of the year and also the outstanding ...

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  • Congressmen protest against magazine picture

    Pondicherry
    Fall in voter strength
    PONDICHERRY, MAY 4.The strength of voters in the Union Territory of Pondicherry, going to Lok Sabha poll on May 10, is 6,36,667. In the 1999 poll it was 7,01,990. There is a steep fall in the strength — 65,323 voters. The present figure ...

    'Provide relief to the rain-hit'
    PONDICHERRY, MAY 4. The secretary of the Pondicherry unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), T. Murugan, has urged the Administration to rush relief to the rain-affected people. The government should not take defence under the model ...

    Punjab
    Abrar Ahmed killed in accident
    JAIPUR, MAY 4.The Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) working president, Abrar Ahmed, died in a road accident in Tonk district early this morning. He was 48. He is survived by his wife, former MLA, Yasmeen, son and daughter. A Rajya Sabha ...

    Sonia's condolence
    NEW DELHI, MAY 4.The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, today expressed deep shock and grief over the tragic and untimely death of the party MP and Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president of the Rajasthan unit, Abrar Ahmed, in a road accident. ...

    Rajasthan
    KEY CONSTITUENCY
    Meo voters to tip the scale in Bharatpur
    BHARATPUR (RAJASTHAN), MAY 4. The Congress supporters put up a brave face but there is a perceptible undercurrent of shock and disbelief among the party cadres here over the reported overtures of the senior Meo leader, Tayyab Hussain, to ...

    A formidable challenge for BJP
    JAIPUR, MAY 4.The five-time Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament from Jaipur, Girdharilal Bhargava, faces a formidable challenge for the first time in his political career from his erstwhile party colleague, Pratap Singh ...

    Uttar Pradesh
    'Dadua' factor may tilt fortunes in SP's favour
    LUCKNOW, MAY 4.Political equations in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh seem to have undergone a change with the ruling Samajwadi Party scoring an edge over rivals following open support from the dreaded Dadua dacoit faction to it. The ...

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  • PCC working president dead

    West Bengal
    Congress, Communists creating roadblocks: Vajpayee
    KOLKATA, MAY 4. The Congress and the Communists are inseparable as their main objective is to prevent the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) from assuming office, the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, said here today. Addressing an election ...

    Ghani Khan abstains from Sonia's rally
    RATUA (WEST BENGAL), MAY 4.A miffed veteran Congress leader A B A Ghani Khan Choudhury, seeking to retain his Malda Lok Sabha seat for the eighth consecutive time, today did not turn up at the election rally of party chief Sonia Gandhi at Ratua ...

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  • We must unite to throw BJP out, says V.P. Singh



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