New Delhi - Suspected Maoist rebels killed seven people, including a polling official and two political workers, in separate attacks in eastern India taking the death toll in the latest election-related violence to nine, news reports said Friday.

Maoist militants detonated a landmine that blew up a jeep carrying polling officials in the central Muzaffarpur district of Bihar state Thursday night, killing four policemen and an election official, the NDTV network reported.

New Delhi, Apr 24 : A job recruiter in China is asking female applicants to drink half litre liquor at one time.

New Delhi, Apr 24 : Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan will leave for Colombo today to review the situation in the island nation.

Narayanan and Menon are expected to meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa and will convey India''s concerns to the Sri Lankan Government.

The decision was announced by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee after a special meeting convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday night.

New Delhi, Apr 23: The Election Commission on Thursday declared that the average turn out in the second phase of Lok Sabha election held in 12 States for 141 seats stood at 55 per cent of the total electorate of 19.5 crores (195 millions).

A million polling staff was deployed ensured a successful conduct of polls across 12 states—Bihar, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Karnataka, Goa, and Tripura.