Mumbai, Apr 7: Samajwadi Party activists allegedly distributed money to prospective voters in Mumbai.
There were allegations that Shahid Azmi, brother of Abu Asim Azmi reportedly doled out money during the procession. However, Azmi refuted these allegations.
"I don''t know anything. Money can''t be distributed. There is no question of distributing money," said Abu Asim Azmi, a candidate of Samajwadi Party from Mumbai North West constituency.
Skopje - Presidential and local elections in Macedonia were an improvement over previous, violence-plagued polls, though some problems persist, the organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission said Monday.
The runner of the ruling VMRO-DPMNE, Georgi Ivanov, won by a landslide Sunday, after equally dominating the first-round vote two weeks earlier. He became the country's fourth president since it split from former Yugoslavia nearly two decades ago.
Managua - An unknown attacker fired four shots at Nicaragua's Attorney General Hernan Estrada on Monday, but the official escaped with only light injuries, authorities said.
The attack occurred as Estrada was exercising at a gym near his home in the capital. He was injured in the neck.
Local media reported it was the first attack in decades on a high government official.
Washington - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Monday laid out a major shift in the Pentagon's spending priorities, cutting a range of expensive Cold War-era weapons programmes and boosting capabilities that would aid the country's battle against terrorism.
Gates said the decisions drew heavily on lessons learned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and represented a shift away from conventional warfare, as well as futuristic military projects where the technology was not yet proven.
Washington - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Monday announced a major shift in the Pentagon's spending priorities, cutting a range of expensive Cold War-era weapons programmes and boosting spending that would aid the country's battle against terrorism.
Gates said the decisions drew heavily on lessons learned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and represented a shift away from conventional warfare, as well as futuristic military projects where the technology was not yet proven.
Washington - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Monday announced a major shift in the Pentagon's spending priorities, cutting some expensive Cold War-era weapons programmes and boosting spending that would aid the country's battle against terrorism.
Gates said the decisions drew heavily on lessons learned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and represented a shift away from conventional warfare, as well as futuristic military projects where the technology was not yet proven.
Mumbai, Apr 7: Samajwadi Party activists allegedly distributed money to prospective voters in Mumbai.
Skopje - Presidential and local elections in Macedonia were an improvement over previous, violence-plagued polls, though some problems persist, the organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission said Monday.
Managua - An unknown attacker fired four shots at Nicaragua's Attorney General Hernan Estrada on Monday, but the official escaped with only light injuries, authorities said.
Washington - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Monday laid out a major shift in the Pentagon's spending priorities, cutting a range of expensive Cold War-era weapons programmes and boosting capabilities that would aid the country's battle against terrorism.
Washington - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Monday announced a major shift in the Pentagon's spending priorities, cutting a range of expensive Cold War-era weapons programmes and boosting spending that would aid the country's battle against terrorism.
Washington - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Monday announced a major shift in the Pentagon's spending priorities, cutting some expensive Cold War-era weapons programmes and boosting spending that would aid the country's battle against terrorism.
