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Assam
Gogoi to apprise Sonia of oil scam
GUWAHATI, MAY 6. The Assam Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, will leave for New Delhi on Saturday to apprise the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, of the crisis gripping his Government in the wake of the crude oil pilferage scam. Mr. Gogoi today ...

Bihar
Laloo accuses BSF jawans of 'instructing voters'
PATNA, MAY 6. The Rashtriya Janata Dal chief, Laloo Prasad Yadav, today alleged that Border Security Force jawans had indulged in poll malpractices in the Madhepura Lok Sabha constituency on Wednesday at the instigation of the Bharatiya Janata ...

Haryana
Haryana gears up for Lok Sabha polls
CHANDIGARH, MAY 6. The Haryana Police has fully geared itself for ensuring free and fair Lok Sabha elections on May 10, according to the officiating Director General of Police, B.R. Lall. Talking to mediapersons here, he said that 1, 127 ...

Will Kurukshetra favour Chautala's favourite?
KURUKSHETRA, MAY 6.The prestige of the Haryana Chief Minister and Indian National Lok Dal chief, Om Prakash Chautala, is at stake in the prestigious Kurukshetra constituency as his younger son and party MLA from Rori, Abhey Singh, is locked in a ...

Jammu & Kashmir
Demonstrators block Srinagar Highway
SRINAGAR, MAY 6. The Srinagar-Jammu National Highway was blocked for hours as people of Qazigund protested by staging a dharna against excesses by the security forces. Police opened fire in the air to disperse the crowd. There were also ...

Leh reels under shortage of essential commodities
LEH, MAY 6. Campaigning by political bigwigs in the mountainous regions of Ladakh parliamentary constituency brings little cheer to the people here who are facing an acute shortage of essential commodities due to last week's heavy snowfall. The ...

Maharashtra
Laine book case: court vacates stay on probe
MUMBAI, MAY 6. The Bombay High Court today allowed the police to investigate the FIR lodged against the U.S.-based James Laine who authored the book, Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India, and the Oxford Printing Press. A Bench, ...

Laine book case: court vacates stay on probe
MUMBAI, MAY 6. The Bombay High Court today allowed the police to investigate the FIR lodged against the U.S.-based James Laine who authored the book, Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India, and the Oxford Printing Press. A Bench, ...

Orissa
5 killed as boat capsizes
BHUBANESWAR, MAY 6. Five persons were killed and 11 others are still missing when the country boat in which they were travelling capsized in the Indrabati reservoir in Orissa's Kalahandi district, according to the police. Twenty-three persons, ...

Pondicherry
Arrangements completed for peaceful conduct of poll
PONDICHERRY, MAY 6. All necessary arrangements were made to ensure that the May 10 Lok Sabha election went off peacefully in the Union Territory of Pondicherry. Addressing a press conference here the District Collector cum Returning Officer of ...

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    Punjab
    Trial against Bhattal stayed
    NEW DELHI, MAY 6. The Supreme Court today stayed the trial in a corruption case relating to alleged misappropriation of Rs. 20 lakhs from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund in 1996 against the Punjab Deputy Chief Minister, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal. ...

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    Rajasthan
    Rajasthan poll percentage below 50
    JAIPUR, MAY 6.The polling percentage underwent a downward revision a day after the polling was held to 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in Rajasthan putting at unease the poll pundits and the satta market alike. From the initial figure of a modest 52 ...

    BJP claim of majority hollow: Congress
    JAIPUR, MAY 6.The Congress has challenged the Bharatiya Janata Party's claim of National Democratic Alliance getting a majority at the end of the current elections. The argument is based on the arithmetic that in the final phase, scheduled for ...

    Uttaranchal
    'Khao-Bao' to decide fate of ex-army generals
    DEHRA DUN, MAY 6. Caste equations and support of ex-servicemen may hold key to victory in Garhwal (Pauri) Lok Sabha seat where the Congress candidate and State Tourism Minister, Lt Gen (Retd) T.P.S. Rawat, is pitted against the BJP stalwart and ...



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