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Sonia, Pawar share dais
SOLAPUR (MAHARASHTRA), APRIL 1. About four and half years after expelling Sharad Pawar and his associates from the Congress on the issue of her foreign origin, the party president, Sonia Gandhi, shared the platform at the first ...

CPI(M) questions claims on GDP growth
NEW DELHI, APRIL 1.The Communist Party of India (Marxist) today termed the Vajpayee Government's claim of achieving 10.4 per cent growth in the Gross Domestic Product during the third quarter as a "cruel joke" and "statistical jugglery" and ...

Modi's remarks embarrass Advani
HIMMATNAGAR (GUJARAT), APRIL 1. The Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, today refused to be drawn into any controversy over the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi's remarks against the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, and her family members ...

Congress challenges Centre's claims on economy
NEW DELHI, APRIL 1. The Congress today challenged the Government's claims on the economic front, and said it was incorrect to say that this was the first year India had witnessed an eight per cent growth since Independence as the country had ...

Security system to be `redesigned' at Santiniketan
SHANTINIKETAN, APRIL 1. The Viswa-Bharati University authorities have decided to "redesign the entire security system" in the campus in the wake of last week's theft of Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel medallion and other memorabilia from the ...

Other Stories

Vajpayee unhappy over photo display

Five-day mourning in Punjab

Hearing today on Centre's plea on political ads

`Musharraf may have spoken under pressure'

Congress' third list for U.P.

Congress blasts Modi

Pawar to be hospitalised

Congress concern over Musharraf `deadline'

Assam bans entry of Togadia

No `feel good factor' for Hindus: Togadia

Development main poll plank: Venkaiah

Laloo wants details of Sukhoi deal made public

A formidable force in Akali politics

Medical team to return from Bam

To aid mobility at rail stations

Indian students to vie for global software prize

Vajpayee mourns Tohra's death

`Afghan security is precarious'

Elections 2004
BATTLEGROUND - MAHARASHTRA

The influence of the `swing' and `split' factors
How much of a swing will there be away from the Congress-NCP alliance in Maharashtra? The answer will determine the outcome, say Yogendra Yadav and Abhay Datar.

POLL THEME/THE ALLIANCE FACTOR
Few options beyond the SP-RLD combine here
The return to power of Mulayam Singh Yadav and the new compulsions of western Uttar Pradesh's electoral politics have led Ajit Singh's RLD to ally with the Samajwadi Party, says Venkitesh Ramakrishnan.

Poll boycott: a permanent feature?
It is clear by now that a section of the people are going to boycott the coming Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir. In fact, boycott of the polls has, in the past eight years of the State's electoral history, become a permanent feature. ...

The new mantra: give ticket, will defect
Politicians quitting their parties and joining rival outfits during elections is passé. But when leaders belonging to rival parties change sides to serve their own ends, they can leave the electorate confused and dazed about the politics of ...

Congress, NCP field ex-CM from Panaji
The Bharatiya Janata Party, which was confident of retaining both the Lok Sabha seats in Goa, is now facing a formidable opposition in the form of the former Chief Minister, Wilfred Antony D' Souza. Dr. D' Souza is contesting as the ...

One voter, three votes: the strange case of Chandurgad
Over 1,500 voters in 12 villages spread across the hilly terrain of Chandurgad are, perhaps, India's most privileged citizens. Each of them has two votes — one in the Chandrapur Lok Sabha constituency of Maharashtra and the other in Andhra ...

Q & A : Ashok Gehlot
He may be down after the Congress debacle in the recent Assembly elections in Rajasthan under his leadership but former Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, is not out. The party leadership has given him new responsibilities — he is a ...

POLL-POURRI
No public meeting of Dravidian parties is complete without a few new-borns being named. For the proud cadre-parent the naming of the child is a big occasion while for the leader, it is the measure of his cadre's devotion. In fact, all the leaders ...

CANDIDATE WATCH
Govinda, Congress candidate, Mumbai North

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