The issue here is not development, the economic slowdown, or who is responsible for those who went to the Gulf, made big money and are having to return.

Corruption: Top agenda of Kerala polls

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As voters get ready to make or break candidates&rsquo; fortunes for 124 seats of the Lok Sabha in the first phase of general elections, a dipstick survey suggests no particular tilt towards either any party or alliance.

Phase-I may not see tilt towards any party

The people of Hinjili constituency of south Orissa&rsquo;s Ganjam district have hardly any reason to complain as an estimated Rs 190 crore was spent in the past five years on improvement of infrastructure facilities in two blocks- Hinjili and Sheragada- falling within the constituency.

CM constituency gets lion's share of funds

The Orissa chief minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik has hit out at the Congress and BJP and has accused the two national political parties of working for the interests of their own parties and neglecting the development of Orissa.

Naveen hits out at BJP, Congress

The election campaign for the first phase polls in Orissa came to an end this evening. In this phase voting will be held for 10 parliamentary constituencies and 70 assembly seats on 16 April.

Campaign for first phase elections ends in Orissa

West Bengal chief minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, is likely to be among the top three prime ministerial candidates of the CPI(M) for the Third Front.

CPI(M) to consider Buddhadeb for Third Front PM

Voters in Jharkhand are confused by the multi-cornered fights and splits within political alliances in the state.

Fractured alliances dominate Jharkhand polls

Continuing its campaign of terming Manmohan Singh as a &ldquo;weak&rdquo; prime minister, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today described him as a &ldquo;glorified caretaker of the post&rdquo;.

Manmohan a &#39;caretaker&#39; of PM post: BJP

Union minister of state for non-conventional energy and sitting Congress MP from Nagpur, Vilas Muttemwar, always reminds listeners at public meetings that he was the one who pursued the state and central governments for the Multi-Nodal Cargo Hub at Nagpur (MIHAN) project, which comprises an international airport, cargo hub and a special economic zone, and ensured that the ambitious project saw the light of the day.

Political battle halts Nagpur&#39;s progress

Lashing out at the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) for describing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a weak Prime Minister (PM), Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) candidate for the top post is &ldquo;Sher-e-Punjab&rdquo; (Lion of Punjab) and the &ldquo;pride of India&rdquo;.

PM is &#39;Sher-e-Punjab&#39;: Rahul

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Congress leader Amarinder Singh already facing revolt from various factions of his party, faced a jolt from an unexpected quarter, from his own family, as Amarjit Kaur, aunt of former chief minister, quit the Congress and joined Shiromani Akali Dal in the presence of Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal.

Amarinder faces revolt in family

The Lalu-Sonia rift widened further when the RJD supremo hit back at the&nbsp;UPA Chairperson for criticising his tenure as Chief Minister in Bihar, saying Congress is to&nbsp;be blamed for the state's plight.

Miffed Lalu blames Cong for Bihar's plight

Polling for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections will be held tomorrow in 124 constituencies spread over 17 states and Union Territories.

Polling for 1st phase of LS polls begin tomorrow

Samajwadi Party's poll campaign will be a glitzy affair in Delhi with newly inducted Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt going to be the star campaigner for the party, which is fielding five candidates from the capital.

Munnabhai to campaign in Delhi for SP

The ruling Congress today pledged to continue subsidising food and fertiliser to help the poor, despite the two varieties of subsidies projected to cost the government more than Rs 90,000 crore this fiscal.&quot;It is now universally acknowledged that if you really want to help the poor, food must be subsidised,&quot; Home Minister and senior party leader P Chidambaram told reporters here.

Congress pledges subsidy on food, fertiliser

Home Minister P Chidambaram was today non-committal on a possible&nbsp;tie-up with Congress and the Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK in Tamil Nadu after the Lok Sabha&nbsp;polls.

Chidambaram non-committal on post-poll AIADMK-Cong ties

The Catholic wedding ceremonies in Goa are the obvious sufferers of the liquor famine that the state is likely to face in the next couple of days.

Liquor stocks dwindle; Catholic weddings to lose spirit

The BJP is portraying the polls for Ghaziabad Lok Sabha constituency as an already won battle, but victory may not come easy to party president and candiate Rajnath Singh.

Ghaziabad election no cakewalk for Rajnath

Terming as 'absurd' the charge that independent candidates threaten&nbsp;stability of the Government, banker Meera Sanyal said that they are not &quot;spoilers&quot; and that&nbsp;she disagreed with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's suggestion not to vote independents.

'We are not spoilers, you can bank on independents'

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today appeared to be keeping Congress options open for a tie up with the Left parties and other allies fighting his party in the post-poll scenario, saying he has had a good experience working with all of them.

Is PM keeping post-poll tie-up option with Left open?

Congress today announced its party candidate for Patliputra constituency of Bihar from where RJD chief Lalu Prasad is contesting.The party has fielded former MP Vijay Kumar Yadav for the seat. This could well increase the trouble of Prasad, who is already facing a formidable Yadav candidate in Ranjan Yadav there.

Cong announces candidate against Lalu

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