Phase-II
About 65% turnout
Srinagar, November 23
About 65 per cent of polling was registered in six constituencies of Ganderbal and Rajouri districts in the second phase of elections today, which passed off peacefully barring stray incidents of stone pelting in Ganderbal area.

Shutdown in Srinagar; clashes in Baramulla

Women wait in a long queue outside a polling station at Lar to cast their vote during the second phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections in Ganderbal district, some 40 km from Srinagar, on Sunday. Tribune photo: Amin War

Annual conference of DGPs and IGPs
PM calls for setting up task force
Police should gather active intelligence and act in a way not detrimental to their image
Must be seen to be fair to minorities. Cautions that scale of terror likely to grow in future
New Delhi, November 23
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did some tough talk with the country’s top police forces on Sunday while speaking at the annual conference of Director-Generals and Inspectors Generals of police in the Capital. He was addressing the police top brass on the concluding day of the two-day meet.

Pay parity for armed forces a difficult task, says Govt
New Delhi, November 23
With the armed forces insisting on a pay hike, the government has said it is “very difficult” to maintain a balance in salaries of government servants doing varied jobs.

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Rajasthan
BSP to contest all 200 seats
Banks on social engineering formula
Keeping in view the historical background of politics in the desert state of Rajasthan, it appears to be a straight fight between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress in the ensuing assembly elections.

‘Maharaja’ still holds the key
Days of Raj not over in this part of India
A king is a king and he also remains the ruler. The fact that for 14 centuries the family of Maharaja Vishvender Singh ruled over Bharatpur is the only fact that the voters of this constituency need to know.

Madhya Pradesh
Rewa’s ‘white tiger’ fights for survival
Bhopal, November 23
The white tiger happens to be Rewa’s gift to the nation. It was Maharaja Martand Singh, the erstwhile ruler of Rewa in Madhya Pradesh, who bred the first white tiger in the early 1950s. Thanks to inbreeding, the white tiger is, today, fighting a grim battle for survival.