He’s leading, says new poll

Democratic front runner Barack Obama has a six-point advantage over Hillary Clinton in Texas...

Democratic front runner Barack Obama has a six-point advantage over Hillary Clinton in Texas and is chipping away at her lead in Ohio, a new poll showed on Friday. Obama leads Clinton 48 to 42 per cent in Texas, according to the Reuters/C-Span/Houston Chronicle poll of 704 likely Democratic voters in the large southwestern state.

No more smoking

•Barack Obama said on a television show aired on Thursday that he had successfully quit smoking cigarettes despite the pressures of a closely contested and lengthy presidential campaign by chewing on “Nicorette, which tastes like you are chewing on ground pepper but does help”.

Hillary hopes for $35 million

• Rebounding from weak fundraising in January, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to raise USD 35 million in February, a figure rival Senator Barack Obama’s campaign said it would surpass, a campaign official has said. The USD 35 million would be Clinton’s biggest fundraising mark yet and represents a remarkable recovery for her campaign.

‘Double bonanza for poor, middle class’: PM’s swadeshi pitch ahead of new GST roll out

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PM Modi announced the rollout of new GST rates, calling it a "GST bachat utsav" and promising cheaper prices for medicines, insurance, and daily essentials. He emphasized that these reforms would ease doing business, attract investment, and benefit the poor, middle class, MSMEs, farmers, women, traders, and youth. He urged citizens to promote swadeshi goods.

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