Cong, BJP all out to woo allies
New Delhi, May 12
As the day of forming the next government at the Centre approaches, both the Congress and the BJP are reassuring their respective allies to keep their flock together while they are simultaneously approaching those outside to join as well.

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LS poll concludes today
New Delhi, May 12
The fifth and final phase of the most keenly fought Lok Sabha elections in recent times will conclude tomorrow with polling to 86 seats, but there is no clear picture of who would form the next government.

EC officials carry EVMs to a polling booth at a tribal village in Kaza, Himachal Pradesh, on the eve of the final phase of LS elections on Tuesday. — AFP photo

Day of reckoning for Varun, Azhar, Jaya
Lucknow, May 12
Controversial BJP leader Varun Gandhi, cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin, film star Jaya Prada, sitting Union Minister Jitin Prasad and a former minister Saleem Sherwani are in the fray in the fifth and final round of polling in the state tomorrow.

SAD-BJP alliance faces Herculean task today
Chandigarh, May 12
Fighting incumbency and the Sikh card Congress has played, the SAD-BJP alliance faces a Herculean task in defending eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it had won in 2004 and where polling is taking place on Wednesday in the fifth and final phase of the long-drawn election.

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Pro-Advani parties welcome: Naidu
Hyderabad, May 12
After the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, it is now the turn of Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam Party to be wooed by the BJP to bolster its post-poll prospects.

The Tribune team attacked
Ludhiana, May 12
Police, busy maintaining law and order, today expressed its inability to book miscreants who beat up a Tribune team late last night and escaped with the camera.

Settle custody cases in 3 months: HC
Chandigarh, May 12
Child custody case pending in the subordinate courts of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh for over six months will now be decided within three months.

EC code put to the sword Chandigarh, May 12 Was presentation of ceremonial swords and their subsequent unsheathing by VIPs at almost all major political rallies in north India in general and Punjab in particular a violation of the general guidelines of the Election Commission?