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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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today offered an olive branch to the Left parties saying that he always had &ldquo;great regard for the Left leaders&rdquo;. The Left had parted ways with the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre last year in protest against the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.

Manmohan holds out olive branch to Left

Bihar&rsquo;s ruling Janata Dal (United) has floated radical ideas of reforms like abolition of all Centrally-sponsored schemes in the party manifesto. At the same time, this Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ally has also made it clear that it will not allow the saffron party to implement its &lsquo;radical&rsquo; political agenda.

Won't allow BJP to implement radical agenda: Nitish

Jarnail Singh was 11 years old, playing cricket outside his house at Lajpat Nagar in Delhi, the day looting and killing started after former prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh body guards.

Jarnail Singh in hiding

A bitter Jagdish Tytler, who was pulled out of the Lok Sabha election race by his party, today accused rivals within the Delhi Congress of scuttling his candidature.

'Rivals in party scuttled candidature'

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On the face of it, there seems to be little hope for the 16 constituencies in Uttar Pradesh (UP) that are going to the polls on April 16. Loosely comprising the region known as eastern UP, these are areas that fall on the fringes of development, hallmarked by deepening poverty, unemployment and always on the brink of sudden, violent crime.

Eastern UP fights cocktail of power politics, crime

Electoral process for the fourth phase of Lok Sabha polls covering 85 constituencies spread over eight States began with President Pratibha Patil issuing a notification today.

Notification issued for fourth phase of LS polls

With the nation gearing up for polls, the lone company manufacturing the indelible ink to mark voters, has supplied 20 lakh phials of the liquid to the Election Commission.

2 million phials of indelible ink for Lok Sabha polls

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's remarks on &quot;Congress being old party&quot; have drawn sharp reactions from state Congress leaders, who alleged that Chief Minister has lost control over his language because of frustration.

Congress attacks Modi on "budhia" remark

Bharatiya Janata Party&rsquo;s (BJP)&rsquo;s prime ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani today said that the river-linking project would be taken up on priority basis if the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) returned to power at the Centre.

NDA will revive river linking project: Advani

Punjab Deputy Chief Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal tells AASHA KHOSA the agenda for the coming election is development.

'We don't believe in raising emotional issues'

The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow a petition filed by BJP candidate from Pilibhit Varun Gandhi challenging the slapping of National Security Act (NSA) by the Uttar Pradesh government against him for his alleged hate speeches.

SC to hear Varun's plea against slapping of NSA tomorrow

The Congress party paid around a crore rupees to buy the rights of the AR Rahman-Gulzar &lsquo;Jai Ho&rsquo; from the Oscar-winning film, and planned to make it the theme song around which its campaign would revolve. A few days after using it, however, the party is now using it less often.

Shine's off 'Jai Ho'

The Congress party general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad has slammed the Naveen Patnaik led Orissa government for its failure to utilise the funds given by the Congress led UPA government at the Centre for the development of the state.

Naveen failed to utilise Central fund: Congress

It is now star war in prestigious Berhampur Lok Sabha seat in south Orissa. This follows the BJD&rsquo;s decision to field veteran Oriya film actor Sidhant Mohapatra to challenge the veteran Congress leader and the Union minister of state for rural development, Chandra Sekhar Sahu in this seat.

Star war hots up for Berhampur LS seat

The chief electoral officer (CEO) for Orissa, Alka Panda held discussion with all political parties on issue of security to the candidates contesting the assembly and Parliamentary elections in the state.

Adequate security for polls

The reasons: Hardworking and all qualities for the top job.

Rahul will become PM one day: Priyanka

No political alliance will make 272 Lok Sabha seats needed to form the government after the general elections, and the ruling Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) will get 203 seats, according to a pre-poll survey conducted by TV channel Star News.

Cong most likely to be the winner: Star poll

It was more than a coincidence on Saturday when Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav was busy at a public rally in his paternal village in Etawah, his colleague and sitting Etawah Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), Mahendra Singh Rajput, was pledging allegiance to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati in Lucknow. The incident has sent shockwaves in the political circles in central UP, a region long regarded as an impregnable SP bastion.

SP faces challenges on home turf

This Lalu Prasad, who believed samikaran (caste equations), and not development, brings vote &mdash; is talking about nuclear power to villagers: &ldquo;We have signed the nuclear deal. Through uranium we will make electricity. Do you know what that means? Electricity for your children.

Lalu blows his own trumpet to woo voters

Shah Mehmood Qureshi, foreign minister of Pakistan, spoke to Karan Thapar on the CNN-IBN programme, Devil&rsquo;s Advocate, telecast on Sunday night and to be repeated on Monday.

'We are fully committed to fight terror ...all stakeholders in Pakistan are on board'

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