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"Order countermanding Chapra poll unanimous"
Election Commission explanation soon "It is one person [Mr. Saptharishi] against so many people whose views were heard. Admittedly he was the Special Observer but he did not have overriding powers. The view of the majority and those senior to him ha s to prevail."

Tandon refutes charges
NEW DELHI: The Election Commissioner, B.B. Tandon, has refuted the charges that attempts were made to countermand the polls in the Chapra Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar last year and said that all decisions were taken unanimously in the ...

"TDP not distancing itself from NDA"
"MPs treated improperly in Parliament"

BSF chief visits India-Bangla border
AGARTALA: Amid tension along the Indo-Bangladesh border following skirmishes between the Border Security Force and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), BSF Director-General Ranjit Sekhar Mooshahary is visiting the border areas in the north-eastern states. ...

Kashmir village defence committees encounter official apathy too
Repeated demands for improved weaponry have gone unheeded

Review of Assam Accord fruitful: AASU
Will assess progress in border fencing work

Rahul pays homage to Lokpati Tripathi
VARANASI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi paid floral tributes to the former Congress leader, Pandit Lokpati Tripathi, at his Aurangabad house here on Saturday. Later he received blessings from religious leader Ramanadcharya Ramareshacharya. Mr. ...

Across the boundaries of art
Art as an athlete's work, not a dilettante's pastime

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Replicas replace Tagore's medal

"Flood relief scam bigger than fodder scandal"

Centre may adopt direct recruitment process

A new system to assess IAS officers

2 Indians to participate in Victory Day in Moscow

Talks still on with Russia on confidentiality agreement

Reliance gained from single tenders: CAG

Navy faulted on contract terms

Someone controlling government from outside: Advani

Work on Mughal Road starts

CPI (M) seeks CBI probe into "Shourie's role"

Call to recognise forest rights of tribals

"Don't flag down march of technology"

Move to create archaeological service dropped

LCA Tejas completes 400 test flights

Pirated NCERT books seized

Two sentenced to death for union leader murder

Genetic conservation centre dedicated

``PoK refugees won't be dispossessed of land''

Youth held for teacher's murder in Kohima

Foreign stakeholders voting rights: move to raise cap opposed

`CARTOSAT-1 cameras functioning normally'

`Irregular expenses' at then Foreign Secretary's house

PM greets Jaafari, Blair

Ministers' chambers in Assam Secretariat gutted

Railways plans 150-kmph trial runs

Congress, BJP wage war of words

Sikh student honoured

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