New Delhi - Indian equity markets closed in the red Thursday with the bellwether Sensex index shedding 3 per cent and falling below 11,000 as monthlong general elections got under way.
The 30-share sensitive Sensex index of the Bombay Stock Exchange fell 337.33 points, or 2.99 per cent, to close at 10,947.4 as a fractured verdict and a weak coalition government was expected to result from the elections.
New Delhi, Apr. 16 (ANI): Union Ministers P Chidambaram and Mani Shankar Aiyar and Tamil Nadu PCC Chief K Thangkabalu figure in the list of 14 Congress candidates from Tamil Nadu released here by the Central Elecion Committee of the party.
All the three have been renominated from their seats. Chidambaram from Sivaganga, Mani Shanker Aiyar from Mayiladuthurai and Thangkabalu from Salem.
Union Minister and AICC General Secretary V Narayananswamy has been nominated for the lone seat of Puducherry.
New Delhi - An Indian court Thursday appointed a new lawyer to defend Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone gunman suspect captured during the Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed over 170 people in November, news reports said.
Abbas Kazmi, a criminal lawyer from Mumbai, was appointed by Special Judge ML Tahilyani to replace Anjali Waghmare who was removed by the court on grounds of "professional misconduct," the IANS news agency reported.
New Delhi, Apr 16 : The rate of Inflation in India for the week ended April 4 fell to a 30-year low of 0.18 percent, from 0.26 percent a week earlier, government data showed on Thursday.
However, the prices of a number of food articles such as pulses, cereals, processed fish, common salt, tea, coffee, tobacco, soft drinks and liquor increased.
As a whole, the food prices went up by 1.2 per cent on weekly basis and 7.29 per cent on yearly basis.
Moreover, the cost of vegetables is 25 per cent more than it did a year ago.
New Delhi, Apr. 16 : Following are some interesting poll-related facts
Lakshdweep
-105 Polling booth accessible by boats only
-EVMs were carried to Minicoy Island by helicopter
Andaman Nicobar Island
-The Andaman Nicober group of Islands is one constituency and is 700 Km. long. Many places require 35-40 hrs journey by ships. Poll personal to some places has been dispatched by helicopter.
Arunachal Pradesh
-Four polling stations i. e 13-Lumta and 12-Pakke-Kessang (ST) Assembly Segment, 40-Mramboo under 41-Anini (ST) Asembly Segment and 35 – Upper Modoi Deep under 49-Bordumsa-Diyum Assembly Segment each have 3 voters respectively
New Delhi, April 16 : Archaeological have found a mural unearthed from an ancient tomb in the northwestern Chinese province of Shaanxi, which depicts how traditional Chinese medication was practiced 1,000 years ago.
Song Dynasty murals are not rare in and around the ancient Chinese capital Xi'an, but researcher Sun Bingjun at Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology said this was the first found to depict traditional Chinese medication, prevalent in China for nearly 5,000 years.
The mural, about four meters square, had a man sitting on a chair, whom experts believed was the tomb owner.
"Jars and bottles were seen on a table nearby," said Sun.
New Delhi - Indian equity markets closed in the red Thursday with the bellwether Sensex index shedding 3 per cent and falling below 11,000 as monthlong general elections got under way.
New Delhi, Apr. 16 (ANI): Union Ministers P Chidambaram and Mani Shankar Aiyar and Tamil Nadu PCC Chief K Thangkabalu figure in the list of 14 Congress candidates from Tamil Nadu released here by the Central Elecion Committee of the party. 
New Delhi - An Indian court Thursday appointed a new lawyer to defend Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone gunman suspect captured during the Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed over 170 people in November, news reports said.
New Delhi, Apr 16 : The rate of Inflation in India for the week ended April 4 fell to a 30-year low of 0.18 percent, from 0.26 percent a week earlier, government data showed on Thursday.
