Jat land smashes polling record
At 75.9%, Haryana clocks highest-ever voting * 40 hurt in stray violence at Sirsa, Hisar, Mewat
Chandigarh, October 15
Haryana voters today set a new record with a 75.9% turnout in the high-stakes battle of ballot that will determine the future of several prominent politicians in the state. The last voting record was 72.65% in 1967. The record polling, however, was marred by stray incidents of violence which left at least 40 persons, including 10 policemen, injured amid allegations of rigging and booth capturing.

Women queue up at a pollling booth in Kerok village of Kaithal district on Wednesday. (left) and The vehicle of HLP chief Gopal Kanda’s cavalcade that was damaged in an attack at Sirsa on Wednesday. Tribune photos

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Exit polls project BJP as largest party in Haryana
Chandigarh, October 15
The BJP appears to be emerging as the single-largest party in Haryana. It may be in a position to form the next government on its own after the results are declared on October 19.

After slow start, 64% turnout in M’rashtra 
Mumbai, October 15
Around 64% of Maharashtra's 8.35 crore voters on Wednesday cast their ballots in a bitterly fought elections that pollsters said will throw up a hung Assembly with the BJP emerging as the  single-largest party in the 288-member House.
Actor Shahrukh Khan comes out of a polling station in Mumbai on Wednesday. PTI

U-turn: Sidhu gets back security cover
Amritsar, October 15
The Punjab Government today restored the security cover to former Amritsar MP Navjot Singh Sidhu a day after it was withdrawn after he attacked the SAD leadership during the Haryana Assembly poll campaign.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Maharashtra Votes 2014
If ‘chaiwala' can become PM, why can’t I be CM: Uddhav
Mumbai, October 15
Pitching himself for the top post in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said if a tea-seller can rise to be the country's Prime Minister, he too can become the state Chief Minister. (Details on Nation page)

Another Texas nurse tests positive for Ebola
Dallas, October 15
A second Texas healthcare worker who treated the first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States has tested positive for the disease. (Details on World page)

UK woman’s search for dead FB friend’s memoirs Chandigarh, October 15 This is a facebook friendship most extraordinaire! A woman has travelled all the way to India from London to trace the whereabouts of the auto-biography of a Sikh inmate of a Kolkata Jail, who was behind bars for alleged links with an underworld don and some terrorist organisations and was killed by another inmate in May in the jail. Harpreet Singh, alias Happy