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Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), May 16 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was Friday stunned when an angry crowd of party workers at his constituency here accused him of failing to help them get work in a state-run company.

Thiruvananthapuram, May 16 (IANS) Former Kerala chief minister K. Karunakaran, who rejoined the Congress last year, Friday aired his resentment against the party because his supporters were not being allotted posts.

Bhopal, May 16 (IANS) In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the Madhya Pradesh government has transferred 25 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officials.

Patna, May 16 (IANS) Unhappy over being ignored despite being a state guest, the National Commission of Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) chairman M.S.A. Siddiqui has cut short his official visit to Bihar and returned to New Delhi in a huff.

Bangalore, May 16 (IANS) Around 16 percent of over 11 million eligible voters exercised their franchise in the first fours of balloting Friday in 66 constituencies in 10 districts of Karnataka in the second phase of elections for the 224-member state assembly.

New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Former Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet was stable Friday after being admitted to a hospital with severe respiratory problems, his party said.

Guwahati, May 16 (IANS) Assam Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Ajai Singh finds himself in a blazing controversy over awarding police and civil officials of the state's Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills districts with medals for excellence in service.

Bangalore, May 16 (ANI): Polling for the second phase of Karnataka Assembly polls began today amidst tight security. olling is being held in sixty-six constituencies spread in ten districts of Raichur, Koppal, Uttara Kannada, Bellary, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Shimoga, Udupi, Chikmagalur and Dakshina Kannada.

The BJP has trashed Rahul Gandhi's recent visit to Bundelkhand as inspired by 'astrological calculations'. "Not many are aware that Rahul Baba had spent three days visiting Bundelkhand not to gauge the extent of poverty in the area, but to meet his astrologer," writes the opening page editorial in the latest issue of BJP mouthpiece Kamal Sandesh.

Polling began on Friday in 66 Assembly constituencies in ten districts of Karnataka in the second phase of election which decides the electoral fortunes of BJP Chief Ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa, former Chief Minister S Bangarappa and former Deputy Chief Minister M P Prakash.

Bangalore, May 16 (IANS) Voting began Friday morning in 66 constituencies in 10 districts of central, coastal and parts of north Karnataka in the second phase of elections for the 224-member state assembly.

Bellary. It's from here that Sonia Gandhi was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1999 and from where her rival contestant, BJP's Sushma Swaraj, picked that smattering of Kannada. But neither of these women leaders holds the key to Bellary, a mineral-rich constituency in east-central Karnataka, that goes to the polls in the second phase on May 16.

Security was tightened in Bellary city on Thursday after B. Sreeramulu, the BJP candidate of the Bellary Rural constituency, allegedly assaulted a Congress worker.

On Sunday, armed CPM cadres freely walked around in Nandigram and today, in one of the of the worst turf battles between two Left Front constituents CPM and the RSP, they allegedly bombed and set ablaze the house of Subash Naskar, West Bengal Irrigation Minister from the RSP.

The Congress on Thursday withdrew the latest issue of its mouthpiece, Congress Sandesh, after party leaders realised that the magazine had three photographs of former minister of state Akhilesh Das, who has since joined the BSP as its general secretary.

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked all states and the Centre to furnish replies with regard to allegations about the tardy implementation of the UPA Government's flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

In 2004, while talking of elected panchayat heads and their rising ambitions, Lalu Prasad Yadav narrated how brother Gulab Rai Yadav had come New Delhi for "treatment" and wanted a "small plane for a comfortable journey" back to the village.

Udupi is no Chettinad. Neither its well-known cuisine nor the less-known politics has the kind of spice the Tamil Country has. Yet one hadn't bargained for such a bland fare. Hardly any posters or banners, no vehicles with blaring megaphones, candidates on the move-forget a motorcade-with not a second car in tow. The only thing EC hasn't enforced is a car pool.

Three by-elections in Haryana on May 22 will decide the future of the state's three top leaders-Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and former chief ministers Bhajan Lal and Om Prakash Chautala.

Responding swiftly to an urgent request for assistance by Myanmar, India is rushing in a 50-member Army medical team along with crucial supplies to the cyclone-hit country.