Campaigning ends today for the fourth round of the Lok Sabha polls on May 7, when the fate of BJP President Rajnath Singh, Congress' Pranab Mukherjee, SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD chief Lalu Prasad would be decided.

Electioneering for fourth phase of LS polls ends

Press Trust of India

Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's bastion of Etawah is feeling the jitters of turncoats who have switched loyalty to the BSP and are now out to spoil the prospects of their former party.To protect the home turf of Mulayam, who hails from a village in this constituency, the SP has fielded Premdas Katheria against BSP's Gauri Shanker for the polls on May 7. The BSP nominee had won the last assembly election from Malihabad on the SP ticket.

Turncoats giving tough times to SP in Etawah

A remark by Maharashtra Navnriman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray&nbsp;advocating Narendra Modi's candidature for Prime Minstership, has fuelled speculations on a&nbsp;possible understanding between his party and BJP in the coming assembly elections in&nbsp;Maharashtra.

Raj warms up towards BJP, fuels speculations

Rahul Gandhi today gave clear signals of working with the Left parties in the post-poll scenario, expressing confidence that the Communists would accept Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister and a Congress-led government.

We'll form govt, am sure Left will back Manmohan: Rahul

In in a bid to create a vaccine against the deadly HINI virus, scientists at the St Petersburg Flu Research Institute have requested the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Atlanta),to share with them details of the highly pathogenic A/H1N1/ virus strain.

Flu institutes plan to create vaccine against H1N1 virus

Attempts by&nbsp;Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to woo the Left parties is &quot;an admission of their defeat&quot; in&nbsp;the elections which would throw up a non-Congress, non-BJP alternative coalition, the CPI&nbsp;said today.

Congress wooing Left is admission of its defeat: Raja

Even as Congress is facing criticism from the opposition after CBI removed Ottavio Quattrocchi from its most wanted list, AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi today said it is a &quot;dead issue&quot; which is repeatedly raised ahead of every election.

Quattrocchi is dead issue: Rahul

About 20 per cent voters exercised their franchise till 11 am today in the repolling at Orissa's Naxal infested Malkangiri district, despite an exchange of fire between security personnel and Maoists, official sources said.

20 per cent voting till 11 in Malkangiri repoll

Old habits die hard but some political turncoats in Punjab have realised elections are not the best of times to give in to habitual peccadilloes.

It's time for Punjab turncoats to watch their lips

Naxalites blew up a culvert connecting a polling booth in the district just before repolling for the Lok Sabha elections started there today, police said.

Naxalites blow up culvert ahead of repolling in Bihar

The ongoing IPL might not be able to dampen the election pitch in Moradabad as voters there watch star campaigner Rahul Gandhi bat for former captain Mohammad Azharuddin, who is contesting on a Congress ticket from the constituency.

Rahul to bat for Azharuddin on May 7

Nearly 11 out of the total 76 Lok Sabha candidates in Uttarakhand, which will go to poll on May 7, have criminal antecedents, a study has claimed.&nbsp;Of these 11, only three are charged with heinous crimes like culpable homicide, bribery and assault on public officials, the study by Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW) said.

Over 14% candidates in U'khand have criminal background

About 50 per cent voter turnout was reported till 1 am during repolling for the twin polls to Lok Sabha and Assembly in Orissa's Maoist infested Malkangiri district, despite an exchange of fire between security personnel and Maoist ultras, official sources said.

Security thwarts Maoist attack, 50% voting in Orissa till noon

The electoral battle in the newly carved out Lok Sabha seat of Sawai Madhopur, home to Ranthambore National Park, and architecture rich Tonk serve as the perfect example of Rajasthan's heated caste cauldron.

Rajasthan's caste cauldron heats up ahead of polls

As Rahul Gandhi tried to woo them, the Left today claimed that the Sonia Gandhi-led party had become &quot;jittery&quot; and said they were striving only for a non-Congress, non-BJP alternative coalition at the Centre.

Left rules out support to Cong

An estimated 18.31 per cent of the electorate in four polling booths in Mumbai North Central Parliamentary constituency had cast their votes till noon in the re-poll ordered by the Election Commission here today.

18.31% turnout in Mumbai re-poll till noon

Online marketplace eBay India today said it has signed an agreement with leading apparel companies to sell IPL merchandise of all the eight teams on its website.

eBay partners apparel companies for IPL merchandise

It's a star war in Patna Saheb, with BJP's Shatrughan Sinha and Congress nominee Shekhar Suman being touted as lead actors but others with favourable caste equations may steal the show too.

Shatrughan meets Suman in Patna Saheb star war

Putting behind him past differences, those created by election speeches and fundamental divisions on foreign policy issues, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi today said that the party could still do business with the Left after the general elections.

Rahul confident of Left support

Business Standard

It was the third election in Bangalore since I had come to live there and this time I was determined to vote, come what may. On the two previous occasions, the vote had passed me by.

Subir Roy: How I got my vote back

With just two days left for polling in four seats in Punjab, it seems that it is clash of clans (Badal family and the Amarinder Singh family) rather than a political fight.

Clash of clans

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