Politics

He was given additional and "temporary" charge of Petroleum Ministry along with Panchayati Raj.

Former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy filed papers for Kerala polls.

UDF promises 36 lakh employments and agriculture loans at 3 per cent interest in its manifesto.

A total of 90 papers were filed on Thursday bringing the total to 108 since the poll process was set in motion.

In a setback to UDF, CMP decided not to accept the three seats allotted to them for assembly elections.

The man in question is TN food minister EV Velu who is contesting from Tiruvannamalai.

The HC had set aside the ECs order restraining the govt from providing rice at Rs 2 per kg.

Siva was elected to the assembly from Tirunallur in the 2006 polls.

Trinamool Congress attended only the first day of the session when Governor M K Narayanan addressed the members.

March 26 is the last day for filing nominations.

But the Kashmiri patriarchs provided no answers to problems of Jammu and Kashmir.

TMC chief Mamata Banerjee released the list of 228 seats leaving just 64 seats for the Congress.

EC has banned exit polls and releasing their results from April 4 till May 10 to ensure free and fair polls.

Objecting to the nomination of some candidates, angry party supporters staged a dharna.

"A CBI probe is necessary to ascertain the reason of sudden death," said Prakash Javadekar.

Bhatia will help a 12-member Trinamool cyber team, which includes two IIM students.