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Record turnout and a decisive mandate underline India’s faith in the ballot. Yet doubts around the Election Commission’s conduct have sparked a wider debate on fairness and credibility

Krishnamurthy told The Times of India that the port management should come up with a modern system to ensure a pollution-free coal handling system.

BANGALORE: The JD(S) released its first list of candidates for 105 assembly seats and 10 Lok Sabha seats. The list is as follows:

BANGALORE: MLA's have petitioned Chief Minister S.M. Krishna urging him not to extend Assembly Secretary Yakub Shariff's tenure.

HYDERABAD: The TDP disciplinary committee has submitted a report on the internal bickerings in the party to Chandrababu Naidu on Monday.

AHMEDABAD: Chief Election Commissioner J M Lyngdoh and Election Commissioners T S Krishnamurthy and B B Tandon, who are on a two-day visit to Gujarat to oversee preparations for the assembly elections scheduled to be held next month, started consultations with senior officials here on Monday.

The race for byelections picked up pace with 79 candidates filing their papers on Wednesday taking the total nominations to 141.

NEW DELHI: RSS spokesperson M.G. Vaidya on Friday said that the party and the government were at par, with neither superior to the other. Both play complementary roles and Atal Bihari Vajpayee could not be superior to the party that made him thte Prime Minister, Vaidya said.

The freedom fighters kept date with the Quit India Movement as they celebrated its 67th anniversary at Subbarayanakere, the freedom fighters' memorial here.

KURNOOL: The Telugu Desam Party is likely to face a major hurdle in Kurnool and Anantapur districts in the forthcoming elections as it has alienated the Boya community which is a major vote bank.

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the three-member Election Commission's visit to Gujarat, the official team, which visited the state for an on-the-spot assessment of the situation gave its report to the full Commission on Thursday.

Chief Election Commissioner- designate Navin Chawla wants to put the row with incumbent N Gopalaswami behind, saying he has "no rancour" against him.

A fast track mahila court in Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday sentenced a 63-year-old ex-serviceman to life imprisonment for raping a minor girl.

BANGALORE: Kannada writer Prof L.S. Seshagiri Rao has been selected for the prestigious `Masti Award-2002' for his contributions to Kannada language and literature.

NEW DELHI: Few eyebrows were raised when Supreme Court judge Justice V N Khare left half-way through a press conference held on October 17 to announce the achievements of the law ministry in the past three years.

The Chennai city police have arrested J Krishnamurthy, 28, who recently approached the Madras high court claiming to be late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s son.

The government needs to check the entire material before it while considering granting sanction to prosecute any official, the high court said.

District in-charge secretary Ashok Kumar C Manoli has suspended an assistant director of agriculture attached to Honnali taluk for dereliction of duty while carrying out flood relief work.

The Mysore Zilla Kannada Sahitya Sammelana will be held this weekend at Hunsur.