Krishnanagar in Nadia district is a constituency where contestants of the two major parties are stars.

Cong-Trinamool feud, strong BJP nominee may work for CPI(M)

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Smaller and fledgling parties like the DMDK floated by actor Vijaykant and well entrenched Congress and DMK account for the top &quot;cororepati&quot; candidates in fray for the May 13 Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu.

Cong, DMK, DMDK candidates figure among top "crorepatis"

Business Standard

Attacking the ruling BJP-SAD combine for ignoring the interests of farmers in the state, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the two parties, which were partners in the six-year NDA rule, were mute witness to the suffering of the agrarian community.

PM attacks BJP-SAD for ignoring farmers' interest

Ballot is stronger than the bullet and two Dehra Dun-based NGOs have decided to carry the message to the masses, urging them to vote after turnout at polling booths took a nosedive with each phase.

NGOs launch campaign to apprise people of ballot power

Allaying the apprehensions that the EVMs could be tampered with to influence the poll outcome in favour of the ruling Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF), the Election authorities today said that tight security measures had been taken to ensure the safety and security of the machines.

Tight security measures for safety of EVMs: EC

Government today filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court on the action taken by it on the issue of black money stashed in foreign banks.

Govt files affidavit on black money

The hands he had held once are now raising against him but RJD supremo Lalu Prasad seems unruffled about the battle against friends-turned-foes Ranjan Prasad Yadav of the JD(U) and Congress nominee Vijay Singh Yadav from Pataliputra.

Lalu meets old friends in Pataliputra poll battle

The National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (NITTR), Chairman, Mahendra Singh Chouhan has been removed from his post almost two months before his term was to expire.

HRD Ministry sacks NITTR head for campaigning for Arjun's daughter

Election officials here today warned the candidates contesting from this constituency that action will be initiated against them if they fail to submit details of their poll expenses.

EC warns candidates for not submitting expense details

Keeping up the tirade against the CPI(M) on his second visit to West Bengal, AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi today accused it of &quot;forgetting&quot; the poor, the backward classes and minorities in the state.

Communists forgetting poor and the backward: Rahul

Taking on the Left in their bastion, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi today accused the communist government in the state of not being receptive to the needs of the poor.

Left parties not receptive to needs of poor in WB: Rahul

A case has been registered against BSP candidate from Bijnore constituency Shahid Siddqui for allegedly distributing lunch packets in an election meeting at Miwa village in Meerut district, police said today.

Case against BSP leaders for distributing lunch packets

Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit made it clear today that she was not responsible for the denial of Lok Sabha ticket to controversial party leader Jagdish Tytler but said that the decision had been taken in the larger interest of the Congress party.

Didn't influence denial of ticket to Tytler: Sheila

In a statement which could kick up another political controversy, RJD President and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav today described the RSS as a band of &quot;vyabhichari&quot; (dissolute) persons.

RSS a band of dissolutes: Lalu

Former BJP leader Kalyan Singh today alleged that certain saffron party leaders conspired to get him remove him as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in the Babri Masjid demolition aftermath as he was a backward caste leader.

Some BJP leaders conspired to remove me as UP CM: Kalyan

Congress in Karnataka today demanded resignation of three state ministers, who are also owners of mines, till the joint survey of mining areas in the border areas of the state and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh was completed.

Cong demands resignation of ministers who own mines

CPI-M candidate and yesteryear athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, who skipped the Sydney Olympics due to an injury to her achilles tendon, hopes that disunity within the Congress-Trinamool Congress combine will prove to be their achilles heel.

Sprint queen Sikdar looks to outrun bickering Cong-TC

A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's stinging criticism of the Left parties, AICC leader Rahul Gandhi today followed it up saying the communist government in West Bengal had 'failed' to work for the poor and called for bringing about change in the state.

Rahul calls for LF defeat in WB to bring change

&nbsp;The Election Commission has ordered repolling at one polling station each in Chujachen and West Pendam assembly constituencies in Sikkim.

Repoll ordered in two polling stations in Sikkim

'Dream girl' Hema Malini will not make a comparison between the roads in Bihar under the Nitish Kumar regime, and her cheeks, but heaped praises on the JD(U) chief on other issues.

'Dream girl' parries question on smoothness of Bihar roads

Charging the Third Front with bringing &quot;political uncertainty&quot; to the country, the Congress today said even if it managed to form a government, it will not last for more than two years.

Third Front govt will not last for more than 2 years:Mukherjee

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