13th Lok Sabha dissolved
NEW DELHI, FEB. 6.The President, A.P.J. Kalam, today dissolved the 13th Lok Sabha on the advice of the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, setting the stage for the next parliamentary elections. However, there is considerable confusion ...
PM seeks mandate to "change India's fate"
NEW DELHI, FEB. 6. The Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, today asked the people to give a two-thirds majority to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance to help it "change India's fate." Victory was in no doubt at all — "I will come ...
40 killed in Russian train blast
MOSCOW, FEB. 6. At least 40 people were killed and over 120 injured this morning when a human bomb ripped through a crowded coach of a moving metro train here. The bombing occurred at 8.40 a.m. (10.10 a.m. IST) when the train was heading ...
Orissa Assembly dissolved BHUBANESWAR, FEB. 6. The Orissa Assembly was dissolved this afternoon, paving the way for early Assembly polls in the State. The elections will be held along with the coming general elections. The Governor, M.M. Rajendran, ordered the ...
Not all disagree with me: Lyngdoh
NEW DELHI, FEB. 6. As he demitted office, the Chief Election Commissioner, J. M. Lyngdoh, today said not all political leaders would disagree with his description of politicians as ``cancer which cannot be cured." "No, I don't think all of ...
Naxalites launch attacks in Orissa
KORAPUT/JAGDALPUR, FEB. 6. Striking at police installations in quick succession, armed naxalites of the People's War tonight stormed this district headquarters town of Orissa, killing a policeman and injuring a jail superintendent before ...
