The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, May 11, 2004

POLITICS
Markets weighed down by political, global factors — Sensex loses sharply; rupee sheds 38 paise
THE impact of the weak Asian market coupled with the uncertainty over the poll outcome pushed the Indian financial market over the edge today. While the benchmark stock indices shed nearly 2 per cent, rupee and government securities also lost ... More

Top vote
The President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, displays his `marked' finger after casting his ballot at a polling station in the Capital on Monday.

E-day musings
CONVENTIONALLY speaking, one would call this the definitive `D-day'. But it seemed more like E-day, with E as in "elections" and "enthusiasm", as around 21 million Keralites walked, trooped, marched or sauntered into polling booths to exercise ... More

Lower turnout due to rains, missing names in Kerala
BRISK polling in the closing hours of the final phase of elections to the Lok Sabha might help Kerala tot up a polling percentage between 65 per cent and 70 per cent, which would mean that the 70.17 per cent it logged in the 1999 general ... More

`Complaints' of names missing — 55-60 pc polling seen in TN
COMPLAINTS of large-scale deletion of names from voters' list, especially in Chennai and surrounding districts, and stray incidents of violence across the State marked the elections to the Lok Sabha, today. In the city, voters across the three ... More

Mumbai Court accepts petition of `disenfranchised' citizens
According to Ms Kunika Lall of the Citizen's Awareness Forum, of the more than 7,000 names that were missing from the voters' list, 3,000 are from one housing complex itself. More

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