Rejecting claims that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was disintegrating, senior Congress leader and External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said it &ldquo;was very much intact&rdquo; and did not rule out seeking Left support after the Lok Sabha elections.

UPA is very much intact: Pranab

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Senior BJP leader L K Advani today said that the BJP government, if voted to power, &ldquo;will start pension scheme for farmers, those completed 58 years like retirement pension to the employees after 58 years&rdquo;.

BJP promises pension scheme for farmers

To counter the star power of former Indian skipper and Congress candidate from here, Mohammed Azharuddin, the BJP is planning to rope in former cricketer and MP Navjot Singh Sidhu to campaign for it in the brass city.

BJP to rope in Sidhu for campaigning in Moradabad

Congress President Sonia Gandhi today filed her nomination papers for Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency here in presence of her son and party leader Rahul Gandhi.

Sonia files nomination for Rae Bareli

Ahead of the elections, Bharat Electronics Limited, which pioneered the manufacture of EVMs in the country, has received an order for 78,000 such machines from the Election Commission. &nbsp;The Bangalore-headquartered BEL meets 50 per cent of the requirement of the Election Commission.

BEL to supply 78,000 EVMs to EC

The TRS president, who won from Karimnagar Lok Sabha seat in 2004 general elections and thrust by polls on the constituency twice in 2006 and 2008, is now contesting from Mahabubnagar seat.

Jaipal Reddy, Renuka to face electorate on April 16

Congress President Sonia Gandhi will not address a campaign rally and instead hold a road show here where Union Minister of state for new and renewable energy and six time Congress MP, Vilas Muttemwar is seeking his fourth term.

Sonia to skip rally in Nagpur, will hold road show

Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel is contesting the Bhandara-Gondia parliamentary seat. The joint rally is scheduled at 1000 hrs in the morning.

Sonia-Pawar to address rally in Vidarbha

Congress President Sonia Gandhi has assets worth around Rs 1.38 crore but has no car or house in her name in the country.

Crorepati Sonia has no car or house in India

Unfazed by the attack over the hate speeches of Varun Gandhi, BJP today said it will stand by him &quot;politically and legally&quot;.

BJP will stand by Varun politically and legally: Rajnath

The Left parties envisage a realignment of political forces in India after the Lok Sabha polls, enabling the 'Third Front' to form an alternative secular government at the Centre without support of Congress or BJP, top Left leaders said here today.

Left sees realignment of political forces after polls

The grand feasts thrown in during poll campaigns to woo voters may whet their appetite but they run the risk of being closely monitored by the Election Commission (EC).

EC to keep a watch on poll feasts

The Election Commission in West Bengal is planning an advanced vulnerability assessment and mapping of all the catchment areas, where voters might face possible intervention at the booth level, covering the 52,000 booths across the state, in a bid to ensure a free and fair election process.

Advance mapping for free, fair election

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The Left Front may be facing the toughest fight in its three-decade rule in West Bengal, but chief minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, has won the battle for eyeballs over arch rival, Trinamool Congress leader, Mamata Banerjee.

Buddhadeb beats Mamata in TAM rating

Janata Dal (Secular) chief and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda has virtually announced his return to national politics after having confined himself to Karnataka&rsquo;s affairs for nearly a decade.

Deve Gowda may return to national politics

The agitation over the Amarnath temple board, which enabled the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) win an all-time high of 11 seats in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections four months ago, is unlikely to help the party&rsquo;s two candidates in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

Amarnath wave losing steam for BJP

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is invoking the nostalgia of Atal Bihari Vajpayee&rsquo;s fine oratory in its campaign film which is targeted at motivating party cadres for the coming general elections.

BJP invoking Vajpayee's oratory to motivate cadres

She may not be contesting the elections. She may even have spurned calls by Congress leaders to become &ldquo;yuva hridayon ki dhadkan&rdquo; (the heartbeat of the youth, as one UP politician described her). But Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is the undisputed mascot of the Congress candidates in the twin constituencies of Amethi and Rae Bareli, considered the pocket boroughs of the Gandhi-Nehru family.

Priyanka campaigns, but only for family

The match-fixing scandal is set to haunt former skipper and Congress candidate from here Mohammed Azharrudin with opposition parties planning to rake up the issue in the run upto the polls.

Opposition to use match-fixing scandal against Azhar

With low voter turnout having affected the party's electoral fortunes in Uttar Pradesh in the past, the BJP has set a target for every party worker to bring 50 new voters into its fold. &nbsp;&quot;As far as the voter tendency is concerned, the reluctance on the part of the BJP voter costed us dear both in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls. The voters of the other parties voted, while our voters did not,&quot; UP BJP chief Ramapati Ram Tripathi told PTI.

Hit by low voter turnout in past, BJP to focus on new voters

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has ruled out sharing stage with his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi during the campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls.

Nitish rules out sharing poll dais with Modi

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