Bangkok - Tens-of-thousands of anti-government protestors, some of them armed with sticks, marched on Parliament Monday in what has been dubbed a "final battle" to topple the cabinet by Wednesday.

Sondhi Limthongkul, a core leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) that has been leading an anti-government campaign in Bangkok since May, launched the march from Government House to Parliament at 6:00 am (2300 GMT Sunday).

New Delhi, Nov 23 : Congress-party led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government banked on the ''nuclear deal issue'' to woo voters in New Delhi on Sunday ahead of the upcoming assembly elections even as other political parties raise other issues to heat up the election battlefield.

Addressing an election rally, the Chairperson of the ruling UPA, Sonia Gandhi said that India-US civil nuclear deal would boost the power generation in the country.

Ganderbal/ Rajouri (J-K), Nov 23 : People in Ganderbal and Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir cast their votes on Sunday during the second phase of the scheduled seven-phased assembly elections in the state.

The voting in two constituencies of Ganderbal and four constituencies of Rajouri districts are taking place a day after two people including a teenage boy were shot dead by troops during anti-elections protest in Baramullah town, some 55 kilometers from Srinagar.

Sunday''s voting will decide the fate of 22 candidates including state''s former ruling party National Conference’s chief Omar Abdullah.

Surprisingly ten seats, which went to polls on November 17 across Jammu and Kashmir, saw a high turnout of 64 per cent.

New Delhi, Nov 23 : Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union Minister Shahnawaz Hussain on Sunday said that it was the history of the Congress party to communalize the terror when Indira Gandhi used to be the prime minister of the country.

Speaking on the issue of the arrest of Sadhvi Pagnya Thakur for her suspected involvement in the Malegaon blast, he said: “Going by terminology, the leaders of the Congress have been calling Satwant and Beant Singh, “Sikhs”, Afzal Guru, “a Muslim”. And, now, they have invented a new word “Hindu terror”. So it''s a history of the Congress to communalize the terrorism,” said Shahnawaz Hussain, who is also the President of BJP''s Minority Cell.

Washington, Nov 23 : US President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly said that he would direct his economic team to craft a two-year stimulus plan with the goal of saving or creating 2.5 million jobs.

Signaling that he would pursue a far more ambitious plan of spending and tax cuts than what he had outlined on the campaign trail, he said that it would be “a plan big enough to meet the challenges we face.”

In the Democrats’ weekly radio address, Obama said he hoped to sign the stimulus package into law soon after taking office on Jan. 20. He is already coordinating efforts with Democratic leaders in Congress, who have said they will begin work next month.

Caracas  - Voting in Venezuelan regional elections, viewed by many as a key test of support for President Hugo Chavez and his policies, started early Sunday.

Long lines had already begun to form before 6 am (1030 GMT) at voting stations in Caracas and other cities in this South American country. About 17 million people are eligible to vote for 22 governors and more than 300 mayors.

Chavez, who has pushed a left-wing populist agenda since taking power in 1999, has campaigned heavily for his preferred candidates in this race, after losing a referendum to amend the country's constitution in December 2007.

One of the amendments would have removed term limits for the president of Venezuela.