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May 8 2009
A person was killed and few others injured in a clash between two groups at a polling booth in Punjab’s Ferozepur on Thursday. The groups pelted stones at each other and also open fired, which led to the polling for the forth phase of Lok Sabha...
May 7 2009
New Delhi/Kolkata/Jaipur (PTI): Moderate to brisk voting was recorded till early afternoon in today’s fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections in eight states and union territories which was marred by sporadic violence in West Bengal and Rajasthan...
May 7 2009
Sportswear brands are cashing in on the Indian Premier League (IPL) fever with IPL merchandise . Sales have been encouraging in India as well as abroad. “IPL merchandise has been doing better than expected. In fact, we’ve seen a spike in sales as...
May 7 2009
General secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Prakash Karat has criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his statement that regional parties do not have any national vision and are an obstruction to the nation’s progress. It was...
May 7 2009
India’s monthlong general elections entered their fourth and penultimate round Thursday with 1,315 candidates locked in key battles as the two rival coalitions were running neck and neck. Tight security arrangements were in place in New Delhi...
May 6 2009
As a 50-hour strike call given by separatists began on Tuesday evening, the authorities are bracing themselves to ensure incident-free elections in the Srinagar parliamentary constituency which goes to the polls in the fourth phase on May 7. The...
May 6 2009
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is all set to give a tough fight to the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party in a triangular contest in this Jat stronghold of Rajasthan, after emerging as a force to reckon with by spearheading the public...
May 5 2009
A day after Hurriyat Conference (M), Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq issued stern warning to the government over religious interference, hundreds of students of Kashmir University on Monday staged demonstrations in the campus to protest the conduct of...
May 4 2009
The barrage of celebrity propaganda to “get out there to vote” had an impact in Mumbai. Voting fell by 6 per cent. Well, okay, that’s being facetious. But had the voting risen, it would certainly have been credited in good measure to the celebrity...
May 1 2009
he Mayawati magic in Uttar Pradesh fading? There is reason to believe that the formidable social alliance that had swept the Dalit firebrand to power in India’s most populous state by far has started fraying at the edges. This may well puncture her...