Here is a roundup of election news from Indian newspapers, news wires and Web sites on Wednesday, April 22. The Wall Street Journal has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Mayawati keeping Third Front options open Bahujan...

Racism on the agenda: Ahmadinejad’s attack on Israel triggers walkout at the UN

Hyderabad (IANS): A ruling Congress party candidate for the Andhra Pradesh Assembly in the State’s Anantapur district has been arrested by Karnataka police in connection with an attempt to murder case. T. Prakash Reddy, who is a candidate from...

Election Commissioner Navin Chawla will take over as the next Chief Election Commissioner today, succeeding N Gopalaswami. Chawla, an IAS officer of the 1969 batch, will hold charge till July 29, 2010 when he will attain the age of 65...

Thiruvananthapuram: Political groups founded on caste and religious bases are set to make an impact on the general election in Kerala on a scale that India’s most literate state hasn’t seen in the past, analysts say. Such groups are being courted by...

Only a day after a Lok Sabha candidate from Uttar Pradesh was found hanging from a tree - a Congress MLA was found shot dead in Madhya Pradesh. Makhan Lal Jatav, the Congress MLA from the Gohad constituency was shot dead by unidentified assailants on...

Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who will be our next President, is by all accounts a great scientist; his contribution to India’s defence is of the highest order; he is rightly called the Missile Man; every Indian feels proud of him; he is in every respect a...

Recently on a train trip to Delhi, I met a hindu saint who got me thinking about the educated people’s prejudices against saints...He boarded the train ( without ticket..) at a station before Mathura and came to our already packed compartment to...

Suddenly being a muslim feels like being part of a community that is under a microscope. It’s like a new virus that is being examined by clinical analysts, all of whom have grave faces and contrary and animated opinions on the physiology of the...

Saw this being circulated around. Some people say, this is photoshop-ed. Whatever, it is, its freaking cool.