New Delhi, Jan 28 : The Bharati

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New Delhi, Jan 28 : Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) N Gopalaswami and Election Commissioners S Y Qureshi and Navin Chawla on Monday reviewed the preparations for the February 23 Assembly polls in Tripura.

They asked the appointed observers to ensure free and fair elections in the state.

Fifty-two general observers and eight expenditure observers will reach the allotted constituencies before the last day of filing nominations and will stay there till the end of the Assembly polls.

New Delhi, Jan 28: The Supreme Court has asked former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to approach competent authorities for declaring the Ram Sethu ‘a monument of national heritage’.

Jayalalithaa, in her petition, had sought the court’s direction to authorities to take alternative routes for completing the project without demolishing the Ram Sethu.

A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices Tarun Chatterjee and R V Raveendran said it was not the job of this court to decide about the status of a monument.

New Delhi, Jan 28 : Union Minister of State

New Delhi, Jan 28: A two-day Conference of State Woman and Children Development Ministers will begin here today to review programmes related to women and children.

Union Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhary will chair the Conference.

The Government has decided to expand Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (ICDS) to ensure 14 lakh Anganwadis in operation by the end of 2008.