New Delhi- The leader of India's ruling coalition Sonia Gandhi and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani are among the 1,567 candidates in the fray for the third phase of general elections scheduled to be held Thursday. An estimated 144 million voters are eligible to vote in this phase, where balloting will be held in 107 parliamentary constituencies across nine states and two federally-administered territories.

Mumbai, Apr. 29 : The Maharashtra Police and family of a dead Anil Ambani Group technician traded charges with each other on Wednesday over the way the latter had died.

Bharat Borge was found dead on the railway track last evening between Vile Parle and Andheri suburban stations. He is suspected to have been run over by a local train near Vile Parle.

Mumbai, Apr 29 : The Maharashtra Government on Wednesday categorically said that no evidence was found during the investigations into Anil Ambani''s helicopter sabotage case to suggest a "corporate rivalry" behind the incident.

Talking to reporters, state Home Minister Jayant Patil said, "We have not found any evidence that there is a corporate rivalry between two groups and that is why this had happened."

New Delhi, April 29 : Archaeologists in China have claimed the identification of the country's earliest known carving, which is a deer antler sculpted into the shape of a bird, dating back 12,000 to 15,000 years.

The fossilized grey figurine, which is 2.1 centimeters long, 1.2 centimeters high and 0.6 centimeters thick, was found in Xuchang County in China's central Henan Province in March.

It is made from evenly-heated antler, and vividly carved with amicrolithic cutting tool.

"The carving technique is more exquisite than the western carvings of its time," said Li Zhanyang, head of the archeological team in Xuchang, and a researcher with the Henan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology.

One of Hindi cinema’s most acclaimed lyricist Javed Akhtar was felicitated on Tuesday April 28th evening with the Taj Tareef Award at the Red Lounge of Cinemax, Versova by the Taj Enlighten Society.

Writer-director Anees Bazmee was the last director, the late Feroz Khan worked under. The film was the super duper hit of 2007, Welcome which clashed with Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par at the box office. Feroz Khan’s relatively small but significant character in Welcome, funnily titled RDX was very popular. His dialogue – Abhi Hum Zinda Hain was greeted with roaring laughter whenever he spoke it on screen in the film.