Poll India: 2004
Campaigning for third phase ends
New Delhi: Campaigning has ended for the third phase of elections, which involves 83 Lok Sabha seats in seven states. This phase will see voting take place for 30 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 25 seats in Rajasthan, 12 seats in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh each, two in Arunachal Pradesh and one each in Nagaland and Jammu and Kashmir.

Voting will take place in these constituencies on May 5. Among the candidates for this round of elections is Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayeefrom Lucknow, Human Resource Development minister Murli Manohar Joshi from Allahabad, Rashtriya Janata Dal President Laloo Prasad Yadav from Madhepura, UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav from Mainpuri and J&K People's Democratic Party leader Mehbooba Mufti in Anantnag. The last phase of elections will be held on May 10 and the counting will take place on May 13.

EC completes Chapra survey
Patna: A two-member EC team visited Chapra on Sunday to look into reports of mass rigging during the April 26 polls, and met BJP candidate Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Laloo Prasad Yadav to hear both sides of the story. Rudy, had raised allegations of booth capturing and violence on the polling day, and has also released dramatic footage of what he says were blatant electoral malpractices in his constituency by his rivals.

LJP withdraws in favour of Congress in Haryana
New Delhi: The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) has decided to withdraw its candidates from the fray in Haryana in favour of the Congress.
The LJP had fielded its candidates in five seats in the State.

Rahul's roadshow gets huge response
Farrukhabad: Huge crowds have greeted Rahul Gandhi throughout the 35 km route between Kayamganj and Farrukhabad in his roadshow in east Uttar Pradesh. Addressing people,while canvassing for party nominee Louis Khursheed, Rahul urged the people to vote for the Congress as development of the state had come to a standstill during the successive non-Congress regimes.
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Another find for Deccan Gold
Bangalore: Deccan Gold Mines has struck a gold bearing deposit in Haveri zone.This announcement comes on the heels of its earlier find in the Dharwar Shimoga belt. According to the company the 470 x 27 metre zone at Ganajur near Haveri can potentially yield two tonnes of gold.

Within the Dharwar Shimoga block of 5,000 sq m, the company has identified 22 targets and has completed drilling in four. Drilling is also on at Uti in the Hutti belt in Raichur and will be completed in mid-May.
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Licences awarded for food plazas at railway stations
New Delhi: The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has set up thirteen food plazas at major railway stations, so far. Besides, licence for forty-seven additional food plazas has been awarded to reputed caterers to provide better catering facilities to the travelling public in tune with the emerging globalisation of the Indian economy. In all, the railways will install 60 food plazas in the first phase.

Indian Railways have transferred Departmental Catering Units of seven Divisions, such as, Delhi, Mumbai, (Central Railway), Mumbai (Western Railway), Howrah, Sealdah, Chennai and Secunderabad to the IRCTC as part of divesting its non-core activities. The IRCTC is also managing 68 mobile pantry car services on running trains.

The IRCTC has been set up to provide and oversee quality, hygienic and cost effective catering services in the railways and promote value added rail based tourism in the country.
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