Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh go to polls on Tuesday. A roundup.
Armed Naxalites raided Banshipur railway station in Patna-Kiul section of the east-central Railway and burnt a cabin room, in Bihar’s Lakhisarai district around midnight, official sources said.
No new deal on the modernisation of the Kiev class aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov will be signed during Defence Minister A K Antony’s three-day Russia visit beginning Tuesday, the Indian envoy in Moscow said.
Before the announcement of election dates in Maharashtra, most luxury hotels in Mumbai had 90% bookings, but now it has come down to 40% this week.
Bhattacharjee said his agenda for the Delhi visit had been fulfilled at meetings with prime minister Manmohan Singh and home minister P Chidambaram.
A petition was filed in a Bihar court today seeking prosecution of chief minister Nitish Kumar and two others for allegedly kidnapping two witnesses.
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The fortnight-long violence in the run up to the assembly election has lent these polls a dubious distinction–of being the most violent in the state’s history.
The grassroots clamour for an enduring pact between the Dalit leaders, sometimes manifest in fasts by activists, remains elusive.
The next major chunk of voters fall in the age group of 30 to 39 years, comprising 20.85 crore voters, which is 27.97% of the total electors.
An Arrah-based advocate Sharad Kumar Singh has scripted the ‘Amitabh Chalisa’ — a 40-verse compilation glorifying the Big B.