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The ten Sri Lankan refugees and one infant rescued near Kakinada were still undergoing treatment at the government general hospital.

SC has decided to hear next week a petition seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against Modi for his remarks in connection with probe ordered against him for post-Godhra riots.

A record 82.1 per cent electorate exercised its franchise in the assembly and parliamentary polls in Sikkim,a state election department official.

An unannounced sop by the State Government,effectively reducing bus fares to the least minimum,has become the eye of a fresh code violation controversy in Tamil Nadu.

Unfazed by the poll boycott call by separatists,nearly 26 per cent of the 11.65 lakh electorate cast their votes in Anantnag.

NSA was imposed on Samajwadi Party leader Mukesh Choudhary for allegedly attacking a Dalit district welfare officer in Muzzaffarnagar recently.

In a bizarre rail accident,an 'unauthorised man' ran an electric train for about seven kms unnoticed before ramming it into a goods train.

Kalyan Singh is contesting as an independent candidate from Etah Lok Sabha seat and is supported by the Samajwadi Party.

SP supremo accused BSP of misusing government machinery in Uttar Pradesh.

CM Nitish Kumar had to face an angry crowd at a village in Harnaut block of Nalanda district,Kumar's home turf,during his election rally.

Two ULFA militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Assam's Baksa district.

B S Yeddyurappa became the latest victim of shoe attacks on politicians when a man hurling a slipper at him while he was addressing an election meeting.

PRP chief Chiranjeevi asserted that his party would form the next government in Andhra Pradesh.

It's not just her nose,but also the wardrobe Priyanka inherited from Indira Gandhi which brings back to the people memories of her grandma.

Dera Sacha Sauda chief has said he never tendered an apology to Akal Takht,the temporal body of Sikhs,but had only sought "peace talks".

The slain militant has been identified as Abu Babar,self-styled deputy divisional commander of LeT,and a resident of Peshawar town of Pakistan.

The BJP accused the SP and BSP of serving the 'same agenda' - indulging in corruption,promoting caste-based politics and having a soft corner for fundamentalist outfits.

Everything is fair in love,war and elections,or so it seems in this Lok Sabha polls.

Even some of the weirdest of situations in her reel life had not prepared the cine star Jaya Prada for the 'very cheap and humiliating' electioneering by her political opponents.

Suspected Maoists shot dead two local CPI(M) leaders at Supurdih village in Balarampur area,about 40 from in Purulia.

In fresh attacks,Maoists exploded bombs injuring two officials in Jharkhand where security repulsed a naxalite bid to disrupt poll process after a fierce gunbattle.

Suspected militants detonated a powerful bomb at Durgabari in Jalpaiguri district. No one was injured in the incident,official sources said.

Congress criticised SAD-BJP leaders for indulging in glamour and glory once witnessed during the Mughal rule in India.