Sonia stalls pact with Laloo
In a sudden development, the Congress high command stalled Laloo Yadav's scheduled announcement of the poll pact between the two parties and sought a ``reworking'' of Thursday's deal.

EC curbs on opinion polls, TV ads
Hoping to prevent voters being swayed by opinion polls, the Election Commission barred newspapers and the electronic media from disseminating opinion poll results after 5 pm on September 3 till the last day of polling for the Lok Sabha on October 3.

Another split in Orissa JD-U, seven of 10 MLAs join BJD
The Janata Dal (U) in Orissa suffered yet another split when seven of the party's 10 MLAs broke away and joined the Biju Janata Dal yesterday.

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