BJP's high-profile candidate and former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh today submitted his nomination papers for the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat.

Jaswant Singh files nomination from Darjeeling

Press Trust of India

The disqualification of four rebel MLAs of the Meghalaya Progressive Alliance seems to have scuppered Congress' chance of forming government in the state and winning the floor test subsequently.

MLA disqualification reduces Congress chance in Meghalaya

In the face of mounting controversy over his alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Congress leader Jagdish Tytler announced his decision to pull out of the Lok Sabha elections saying he does not want to cause embarrassment.

Tytler pulls out of Lok Sabha elections

The Election Commission (EC) today served a notice to RJD chief Lalu Prasad for violation of the Model Code of Coduct on his alleged statement against BJP candidate Varun Gandhi.

EC slaps notice on Lalu for Varun remarks

The UPA is expected to get 234 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections with Congress emerging as the single largest party with 144 seats, according to a countrywide survey conducted for 'The Week' magazine.

UPA to get 234 seats, NDA 186; Advani best for PM: survey

About 30 companies come together to create awareness on the need to vote.

Let's Vote gathers momentum

Business Standard

The Congress party is fighting two sets of elections in Haryana: one for the Lok Sabha, and the other internally, among various factions vying to get the upper hand via the coming general elections.

Infighting and polls: Congress fights twin battle in Haryana

The Congress today came out with a &ldquo;report card&rdquo; on Gujarat &mdash; run by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)&rsquo;s poster boy Narendra Modi &mdash; to highlight how the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government gave more funds to the state than the previous National Democratic Alliance (NDA) regime.

UPA did more for Gujarat, boasts Cong

Every major political party has a green agenda, but a green party and a green revolution aren&rsquo;t the same thing.

Sunita Narain: Where is the green party?

Ajay Chautala, the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) candidate from the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha constituency in Haryana, is working hard to win over voters&rsquo; confidence after the party was routed in the 2005 Assembly elections. In a conversation with Aasha Khosa, Chautala, the son of INLD supremo and former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, says the party joined the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as there was no better alternative before it.

Third Front leaders have huge egos'

With development as his battle-cry, Orissa Chief Minister&nbsp;Naveen Patnaik is seeking to register a hat-trick this time from the Hinjili assembly constituency. The only difference this time is that his erstwhile opponents are by his side.

Naveen banks on development for hat-trick

In the pocketborough of the Gandhi-Nehru family, the race for the opponents of the Congress is not to emerge as a winner in the Lok Sabha polls but to get the second position.

Token fight for opponents of Sonia and Rahul in polls

NCP chief Sharad Pawar today gave hints that he would like to be in the prime ministerial race and probably expects Left support in the bid in any muddled post-poll scenario.

Pawar hints he is in prime ministerial race

&quot;I will apologise because it happened in our time. I would apologise a thousand times for what happened to the whole Sikh community...I would say whatever happened was shameful,&quot; he told NDTV.

Tytler says will apologise for anti-Sikh riots

It is payback time for defectors in Karnataka as many of them grabbed&nbsp;tickets in their respective new parties to contest the coming Lok Sabha polls, especially in&nbsp;the ruling BJP.

Its payback time for defectors in Karnataka

Saffron flags flutter atop houses on both sides of the roads linking this village to Raikia and Baliguda blocks in Kandhamal district, seven months after the riots targetting Christians.

Saffron flags protect Christian homes in Kandhamal

CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat today said NCP chief Sharad Pawar would have the option to join the Third Front after the elections as the &quot;logic of the situation&quot; would force him to do&nbsp;this.

Pawar can join Third Front post polls: Karat

In a second incident of its kind in a week, a retired school teacher today hurled his shoe towards Congress MP Naveen Jindal in Kurukshetra &quot;to protest&quot; against Congress' policies but missed his target.

And now, shoe hurled at Naveen Jindal

RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, under the Election Commission scanner for his remark that he would have ordered a roller to crush BJP leader Varun Gandhi for his alleged anti-Muslim speech, today changed tack claiming what he referred to was &quot;legal bulldozer&quot;.

Lalu backtracks on Varun under roller remark

So now we know that, while every fourth member of the Lok Sabha has a criminal record, virtually every member is a crorepati. Quite a few would even qualify for membership of the Business Standard Billionaire Club (those with assets of over Rs 1 billion, or Rs 100 crore). We also know that these standard-bearers of socialism (every political party has to swear to this creed if it wants to be registered with the Election Commission) have increased their wealth manifold in the last five years.

T N Ninan: Tell us more

It is a truth universally acknowledged that those who seek power are unfit to wield it. The preceding sentence is a &ldquo;mashup&rdquo;, stringing together quotes from Jane Austen and Plato. The coalition that comes to power after this election is likely to be a similarly incongruous mashup.

Devangshu Datta: A cargo cult democracy

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