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More than 60 percent voters exercised their franchise for Delhi assembly polls.

Total number of voters in Delhi is over 1.5 crore.

The polls saw stray incidents of violence but remained by and large peaceful. The elections were peaceful though there were four incidents of minor violence during the polling which began at 8 am amid 52,000 police personnel keeping a tight vigil, said Chief Electoral Officer Satbir Sailas Bedi.

Four BSP workers were injured in clashes in Okhla area while two persons were arrested in Mehrauli for trespassing into polling booths unauthorisedly, he added.

A new study claims that bouts of cataclysmic volcanism were experienced by the ancient Earth that buried much of its surface in up to 15 kilometres of lava.

These dreadful episodes of volcanic activity each lasted for around one million years - but the last ended around three billion years ago, and the phenomenon is unlikely to occur again, informs the research from the Australian National University, in Canberra

This week will not just see families joining together for thanksgiving, but even the three brightest objects in the night sky Venus, Jupiter and a crescent moon will crowd around each other for an unusual group shot.

The well known, Far Cry 2 game bundled with its GeForce 9 series of graphics cards is now being offered by XFX. The Indian users will get the game for free with the GeForce 9600GT card, read a press release. A number of features are boasted by the XFX GeForce 9 series that includes Nvidia's physics engine, PhysX; CUDA technology, in order to improve performance in graphical applications and Hybrid Power technology, which saves the power usage by shutting off the graphics card when it is not needed.

A way has been found out by the US researchers which can predict the rate at which ice shelves break apart into icebergs.

Calving events, which are sometimes spectacular occurrences, are a key step in the process by which climate change drives sea level rise.

The Science journal reports that computers do not describe the calving process in much detail. They however, simulate how ice sheets might behave in a warmer world. Till now, the factors that control this process have not been well understood.