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Maoists virtually rule the roost in Jharkhand areas
Red Brigade calls for State-wide bandh and poll boycott

Pratibha arrives in Spain
Visit is expected to strengthen cordial relations

Varun not allowed to address rally
He has to inform Pilibhit DM first

Drop LTTE issue from campaign, says Swamy
CHENNAI: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Monday urged Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa to “get real” and drop the LTTE issue from the ongoing election campaign. Instead, ...

Manmohan: post-poll alliance with Left open
NEW DELHI: Keeping post-poll options including working with the Left open, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday has said he does not rule anything in or out and everything will depend on the result of Lok Sabha elections. “The ...

Information was denied: Jaitley
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Arun Jaitley complained here on Monday that he was denied information by the Law Ministry on the recommendation of outgoing Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami on why Chief Election ...

Jayalalithaa backs Pawar for PM
New Delhi: AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa, one of the key constituents of the Third Front, on Monday backed Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar for the Prime Minister’s post. “As far as Sharad Pawar is concerned, he is a ...

EC to hold talks with tribals
Kolkata: The Election Commission will sit for talks with representatives of the Lalgarh-based resistance group – the Police Santrosh Birodhi Janashadharaner Committee (PSBJC) [People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities] on ...

Security tightened for Modi
AHMEDABAD: Though he is surrounded by about a dozen personnel of the Special Protection Group, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has now got an additional security “net” – to protect him from ...

Somnath’s pro-Congress stand exposed, says Karat
NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Monday criticised the statement of Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee that the Left parties’ withdrawal of support to the Congress-led UPA government was a ...

I am a victim of conspiracy: Soren
DUMKA (JHARKHAND): Jharkhan Mukthi Morcha chief Shibu Soren has sent a one page appeal from his hospital bed to the voters of Dumka Lok Sabha and Jamtara Assembly constituencies terming himself as a “victim of conspiracy.” ...

I’m not at the mercy of Congress, asserts Lalu
PATNA: Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad and Lok Jan Shakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday were unrelenting in their tirade against the Congress not only over the issue of the Babri Masjid demolition but their place in the Union ...

Campaign ends today for Phase II
NEW DELHI: Electioneering for the Phase II of the general elections, scheduled for April 23, will come to an end on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in most of the places. In Manipur, where the poll for the remaining one Lok Sabha seat out of two has to be ...

Narayan Rane sees Shiv Sena hand in cousin’s death
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Industries Minister Narayan Rane on Monday has alleged a conspiracy by the Shiv Sena to undermine the Congress chances of victory in the Ratnagiri Sindhudurg Lok Sabha seat after his cousin was found dead by the police late ...

Working on helpline for ragging victims: Centre


ELECTIONS 2009
Forget naxalites, here’s a real jumbo problem
The Maoists may have hogged the headlines in these elections, but in the forests of Jharkhand bordering West Bengal and Orissa, it’s the elephants that are a bigger problem. Ever since Jharkhand became an independent State in 2000, ...

5 IRB jawans killed in Assam ambush
Guwahati: Altogether 11 persons, including five suspected militants, were killed in two separate incidents in Assam on Monday. In North Cachar Hill district suspected militants of the Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel Gorlossa faction) ambushed ...

ELECTIONS 2009
Voting for the third time — from a camp
Adivasis in Kokrajhar district of Assam are under no illusion that elections will change their lives

Nine killed in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR: Ahead of the second phase of elections to the Lok Sabha, a Lashkar-e-Taiba commander, his female accomplice and three security personnel were among nine persons killed in separate militancy-related incidents in Jammu and Kashmir ...

ELECTIONS 2009
Bollywood in Bengal
Adding glamour to the Lok Sabha campaign, a host of Bollywood celebrities has descended on West Bengal to woo the electorate. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, in the fray from Jangipur in Murshidabad district, roped in veteran ...

No paramilitary forces for Goa: EC
PANAJI: The Election Commission has declined to give paramilitary forces for Goa for the conduct of elections to its two Lok Sabha constituencies which go to the polls on Thursday. North Goa Magistrate and Returning Officer K.S. Singh ...

ELECIONS 2009 - INFOCUS
Issues in Konkan
Land, livelihood and environment are concerns that will play a role in this coastal region of Maharashtra

ELECTIONS 2009
The loneliness of George Fernandes
He fights in Muzaffarpur as an Independent. But the denial of a JD(U) ticket to the NDA Convenor has become an election issue for all parties

ELECTIONS 2009
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ELECTIONS 2009





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