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UP polls: Kanpur hopeful of a good show
In 2007, the average voting in Kanpur was 44.7%. This was way ahead of Lucknow’s 35%.Now that the state capital has notched up 56%, people in the neighbouring city are raring to better it.

Star cast vies for popular choice award in UP
UP is in the midst of a democratic churn and will vote in the fifth phase today. Arindam Sen Gupta captures the colours of the pollscape as he scours the countryside taking a ringside view of the dramatis personae hard selling dreams.

Phase 5 of UP polls: A decisive round for Samajwadi Party
The fifth phase of UP assembly election may form the very foundation of Samajwadi Party's prospects in terms of party's final tally.

Religious sentiments behind mosque blasts: Cops
One of the five youths arrested recently by Patiala police, and who were instrumental in triggering blasts in Muslim dominated areas in some Haryana towns, had been inclined towards gau sewa from childhood.

UP polls: Make-or-break fifth phase for political parties
Forty-nine assembly seats across 13 districts could make or mar hopes in the UP contest, being the OBC-MBC-Dalit stretch where political parties have gambled everything to come up trumps.

AMU defends policy, denies gender bias
The Aligarh Muslim University has defended its policy of not allowing undergraduate women students into its central library and said there was no gender bias in the practice.

Extradite Headley, Nirupama tells US
Following up a special court order seeking the presence of Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley for trial in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, India's ambassador to the United States, Nirupama Rao, on Tuesday pressed the Obama administration for his extradition to India.

Lokayukta indicts Mayawati's No. 2
The Lokayukta's move to recommend CBI probe into the finances of Mayawati's trusted lieutenant Nasimuddin Siddiqui sent ripples in UP's political circles.

Outsourcing ops may aid Air India, PAC told
Maintaining new aircraft acquired by Air India was more cost effective than the carrier's aging fleet although the merger with Indian Airlines was poorly conceived and hastily executed without keeping in mind the interests of either, Parliament'sPAC was told.

2 CPM leaders killed in rally, TMC men held
Politics of vengeance took a vicious turn in Bengal’s Burdwan district on Wednesday, leaving two senior CPM leaders dead and one injured in Dewandighi village near the district headquarters.

NCTC looks uncertain, Mamata says it's on hold
Uncertainty over the fate of the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) deepened on Wednesday with Mamata Banerjee claiming that the PM has assured her that the anti-terror mechanism would not be launched until an understanding was reached with states over its powers.

'Maran kept pricing out of GoM's purview'
Terms of reference of the group of ministers on spectrum were altered to exclude pricing on the insistence of then telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran in 2006.

Lavish Delhi wedding for Mamata's nephew
West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress boss Mamata Banerjee, known for her austere lifestyle, seems to have allowed an aberration in the case of her nephew Abhishek Banerjee.

New Prasar Bharati CEO promises promises DD, AIR revamp
Signaling sweeping changes in the current scheme of things, Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar, who took over on Wednesday, said that his priority would be to "spice up" the news screen while focusing on personnel issues.

New Prasar Bharati CEO promises to 'spice up' news screen
Signaling sweeping changes in the current scheme of things, Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar, who took over on Wednesday, said that his priority would be to "spice up" the news screen while focusing on personnel issues.

Govt likely to inform Portugal of dropping additional charges against don Salem
The government is exploring the possibility of dropping additional charges by Indian courts against underworld don Abu Salem and also inform Portuguese authorities about it, official sources said.

Some PAC members oppose visit to RIL-run KG offshore gas fields
A proposal to facilitate a tour of the Reliance Industries-run KG offshore gas fields for members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) ran into rough weather on Wednesday, with some MPs objecting to the visit as being unnecessary and undesirable.

India to Norway: NRI kids neither orphans, nor stateless
India on Wednesday expressed concern over the move by Norwegian authorities to extend the Residence Permits of the two Indian children, who have been put in foster care by the Municipal Child Care Services in Stavanger.

BJP's opposition to NCTC is hypocrisy: Congress
Congress accused BJP of hypocrisy in opposing the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC), saying the opposition party did not tire of underlining the need for infrastructure to tackle terror but opposed steps taken in that direction.

States want to lure Naxals with cash
Maoist-hit states on Wednesday pitched for a more lucrative surrender-cum-rehabilitation policy for naxalites, suggesting that the government can think of increasing monetary incentive to the tune of Rs five lakh to anyone laying down a Light Machine Gun or sniper rifle.

Lucrative surrender-cum-rehab policy for Red ultras proposed
Maoist-hit states on Wednesday pitched for a more lucrative surrender-cum-rehabilitation policy for naxalites, suggesting that the government can think of increasing monetary incentive to the tune of Rs five lakh to anyone laying down a Light Machine Gun or sniper rifle.