Gujarat decides
Poll code violated: EC
Modi or Cong? Results by 10 am today
New Delhi, December 22
Even as Gujarat today waited with bated breath with counting of votes in the fiercely contested Assembly elections to be taken up tomorrow, the Election Commission today took exception to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for “violating the model code of conduct”.

BJP should have called me: Keshubhai
Ahmedabad, December 22
Slapped with a show-cause notice by the BJP for indulging in “anti-party” activities, Keshubhai Patel today criticised the central leadership, saying that it would have been better if he had been asked to explain his views in person.

Rane meets Sonia
New Delhi, December 22
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh appears to have got a reprieve for now but his bete noire Narayan Rane also has something to cheer about with Congress president Sonia Gandhi assuring him that his “grievances” would be looked into.

Man kills wife, packs off body in suitcase Gurgaon, December 22 A 30-year-old commerce ministry official was found dead near her residence at a posh colony in this satellite town and the police claimed she was murdered by her estranged husband.

A file photo of Archana, whose body was found in a briefcase (above left) near her residence in Gurgaon on Friday night. (Inset) Rohit Pagare who was taken into police custody on Saturday. — PTI

Gas Pipeline
Review policy towards Iran, says CPM
New Delhi, December 22
Maintaining that the Bush administration’s “fabricated” stand against Iran had been exposed, the CPM today called upon the UPA government to review its “shortsighted and harmful” policy towards Iran and tell the country what steps were being taken to ensure that the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project becomes a reality.

Fistula patients in Dhaka a wrecked lot
Dhaka, December 22
They are among the most unwanted and vulnerable women in Bangladesh. Living with fistula, a devastating injury that occurs during childbirth and causes urinary and faecal incontinence, these women face unimaginable trauma and social discrimination.

Police takes on schoolgirls
Firozabad, December 22
The police today hit schoolgirls with batons and pulled them by their hair as they staged a demonstration here to protest the murder of their principal. Nearly 100 students of S.R Gyaneshwari Higher Secondary School squatted on the national highway near the Asafabad crossing here this morning to protest the murder of Santosh Kumar Dhakra yesterday, school authorities said.

Punjab worst in implementation of midday meal scheme Chandigarh, December 22 Eight years after People Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) filed the right to food petition in the Supreme Court of India, starvation deaths remain a reality. In the last interim application filed before the apex court in this longest continuing mandamus on right to food anywhere in the world, the petitioners listed 5,957 fresh deaths due to hunger. They added that the state governments were still not ready to admit to starvation deaths.