NEWS
Delhi archbishop tells Christians how to vote
'I cannot improve the manifestos of political parties. I have highlighted only a few important issues for the attention of all, especially the Christians,' Archbishop Alan de Lastic said.
NEWS
No ban on raising Kargil, says EC
Only, keep the armed forces out of the discussion, clarifies Dr M S Gill.
NEWS
Sonia, Priyanka campaign in Bellary
The Congress president accused the BJP-led alliance of having a one-point programme of pointing an accusing finger at her family.
NEWS
NC hunts for votes among homeless
Residents of Pandrass and Matayan villages in Drass sector are being forced to return to their homes ahead of the polling on September 5.
NEWS
Bombay, Madras high courts reject plea on Sonia's origins
In two similar orders today the Bombay and Madras high courts rejected separate PILs urging that Congress president Sonia Gandhi be debarred from contesting the election on the ground that she was not born in India.
INTERVIEW
'Our first priority is to ensure that a foreign woman must neither win in India nor push our country towards foreign rule again'
BJP leader B S Yediyurappa, widely tipped to be Karnataka's next chief minister, is in a fighting mood.
ISSUES
'We have severe social problems like female infanticide
that our parties don't bother about'
'Kargil, in my opinion, was a tragedy, not a great victory, in the sheer terms of the number of lives lost. How can you use Kargil as propaganda,' asks Suresh Heblikar.
COLUMNIST
Those were the days, my friend
'If the Vajpayee government is returned to power, it will be the first time that a non-Congress government is voted in on a pro vote. Perhaps then one will be justified in saying that the Congress has been well and truly replaced at the federal level,' says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
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SPECIAL
Song & Dance
Election-time audiocassettes are great fun, thanks to a little help from the film industry.
SPECIAL
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.
GALLERY
A tale of two rallies
Atal and Sonia. Jaya and Karunanidhi. Sreeram Selvaraj captures vignettes from the Great Indian Political Circus.
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