Within hours of finalising seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) today declared candidates for 18 seats out of the 22 it would contest in Maharashtra in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

NCP releases first list of 18 candidates

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A defiant Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today announced that Varun Gandhi would continue to be the party&rsquo;s candidate from the Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, and also questioned the Election Commission (EC) for advising that he be dropped from contesting the coming elections in view of his recent controversial speech.

BJP defiant on Varun, questions EC's 'advice'

The process of fusion and fission in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) continued unabated today with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad declaring his candidates, in alliance with the Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) headed by Ramvilas Paswan, for all 40 constituencies from Bihar.

RJD announces Bihar candidates

The tension between the government and the Opposition on holding the IPL tournament along side the general elections today erupted into a war of words between Home Minister P Chidambaram and the BJP leaders.

UPA, BJP spar over IPL

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Union minister Jaswant Singh says the core idea behind the NDA&rsquo;s bid for power is to provide a stable, efficient and result-oriented government where the commitments made are actually delivered.

'NDA's thrust is on governance'

With the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Orissa deciding to enter into seat sharing arrangement with the Left parties in the run up to the Assembly polls, business leaders in the state are divided over the future of mega industrial projects in the possibility of the Left being a part of the post-poll coalition government.

BJD, Left pact worries industry leaders

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the economy would revive in the next six to seven months.

Economy will revive in 6-7 months: PM

Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami today said here the Election Commission will initiate appropriate action against Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa for violating the model code of conduct. The chief minister had addressed a public function after 10 pm in Hubli on Monday, which was in violation of the EC regulations.

Action against state CM likely, says CEC

Congress and JD(S) in Karnataka today voiced fears to the Election Commission that the ruling BJP might misuse official machinery in next month&rsquo;s Lok Sabha polls and asked it to keep a strict vigil to check malpractices.

Oppn wants EC to keep an eye on BJP

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The Indian National Congress, the single-largest party in the current Lok Sabha with 150 seats, committed itself to massive public spending to strengthen its aam aadmi (common man) platform through vastly extended employment guarantee, social sector and farm loan waiver schemes, even as it ruled out privatisation in banking and insurance in the manifesto released today.

Congress banks on 'stimulus' for aam aadmi

Less than a year ago, the big issue that seemed to have the potential of swinging votes in a general election was the allocation of land for special economic zones (SEZs). Opposition political parties were training their guns at the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) for having allowed industry to acquire land from farmers on relatively easy terms and at prices that were substantially lower than what prevailed in the open market.

A K Bhattacharya: Political parties in search of issues

Anxious not to have a repeat of the anti-Muslim speech at Pilibhit, the BJP has decided to give some tips to Varun Gandhi.

Learn from Sonia

Advani led communal forces ...is an opportunist, says Manmohan.

Manmohan PM candidate, says Sonia

Undeterred by the loss of major allies like the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in key Hindi-belt states, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today pitched hard for the Congress, claiming it as the only party capable of tackling challenges like terrorism and global meltdown.

Sonia play down UPA differences, keeps Left option open

Election 2009 is revitalising the Indian gaming companies&rsquo; interest in developing games based on political and election themes for online and mobile platforms. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s raining subscribers for us, especially youth, and is a time to rake in more moolah,&rdquo; they say, with most of them putting the development of other genre of games on the back burner for the time being.

Gaming firms eye big bucks from elections

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) N Gopalaswami today said the Election Commission (EC) had only issued an &lsquo;advisory&rsquo; to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) not to give ticket to Varun Gandhi and the party was free to act on its own.

No direction to BJP to drop Varun: CEC

The Bharatiya Janata Party( BJP) launched a counter attack on the Prime Minister with L K Advani calling Manmohan Singh &ldquo;the weakest prime minister the country ever had&rdquo;.

Manmohan weakest PM, says Advani

Development of small and medium enterprises, investment in social and economic infrastructure, inclusive growth and employment generation appeared to be the main objectives of political parties here.

Political parties sing infrastructure tune

The Congress and the Samajwadi Party are set to put up candidates against each other in most seats in Uttar Pradesh, barring those for Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son, Akhilesh.

Cong may field 60 candidates in UP

With nowhere to go before the Lok Sabha elections, the desperate Samajwadi Party (SP) leadership is trying to keep the doors open for every possible post-poll patch-up.

SP open to post-poll pact

BJP leader Arun Jaitley is often criticised by colleagues for not fighting a Lok Sabha election from Delhi, especially since Jaitley was the president of the Delhi University Students Union in 1974. So it was ironic that when the BJP announced its candidates for Delhi, Jaitley said three Delhi University alumni were in the list &mdash; Vijay Goel from New Delhi, Jagdish Mukhi from West Delhi and Vijendra Gupta from Chandni Chowk.

DU for Delhi

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