NEWS
Centre hoards onions to guard against crisis
Determined not to allow the onion to play truant again this year with the general election round the corner, the BJP-led government is stocking thousands of tonnes of the popular vegetable all over North India.
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Jaya tries to make up to Sonia
The AIADMK move came in the wake of criticism that Jayalalitha deliberately kept away from Sunday's joint election rally at Villupuram.
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Christian bodies call for BJP's defeat
Christians for a Secular Democratic India, an umbrella of like-minded organisations, said its appeal was the result of in-depth discussion of the contemporary social context in Delhi, Kochi, Madras and Ahmednagar.
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For casting vote, press here...
The Electronic Voting Machine, which will be used quite widely in the forthcoming elections, promises to revolutionise the electoral process.
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All of Sonia's advisers
A lowdown on who stands where at 10 Janpath.
INTERVIEW
'I am the only campaigner in Maharashtra'
'If the NCP, the Janata Dal-Secular and the Samajwadi Party together get 60 seats, it would mean that nobody would get a clear mandate to form the government at the Centre. In such a scenario our 60 seats would be the decisive factor,' says Sharad Pawar.
CAMPAIGN TRAIL
'There are no constituents coming up to say, But you never did this or that'
On the Campaign Trail with Aviation Minister Ananth Kumar.
CONSTITUENCIES
South side story
In Tiruchendur, Tamil Nadu's southern-most constituency, it is advantage AIADMK.
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Election results, at your fingertips...
Who won in Barh in 1977? And, who won Rampur, which has the highest concentration of Muslims in India, in 1998? Check out the results of the previous 12 general elections.
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