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60 % polling in Delhi

60 % polling in DelhiMore than 60 percent voters exercised their franchise for Delhi assembly polls.

Total number of voters in Delhi is over 1.5 crore.

The polls saw stray incidents of violence but remained by and large peaceful. The elections were peaceful though there were four incidents of minor violence during the polling which began at 8 am amid 52,000 police personnel keeping a tight vigil, said Chief Electoral Officer Satbir Sailas Bedi.

Four BSP workers were injured in clashes in Okhla area while two persons were arrested in Mehrauli for trespassing into polling booths unauthorisedly, he added.

PM to preside over all-party meeting, to discuss Mumbai terror strike fallout

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PM meets Defence Secretary, Service Chiefs

Manmohan SinghNew Delhi, Nov. 29 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday met Defence Secretary Vijay Singh, the three Service Chiefs and Chiefs of Intelligence agencies and discussed the impact of the Mumbai attacks and how such incidents could be prevented in the future.

Defence Secretary Vijay Singh, Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta, Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor, Naval Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta, Air Force Chief Air Marshal Homi Major, Coast Guard Director General Admiral R F Contractor and Intelligence Bureau Chief P C Haldar were present at the meeting.

US envoy offers help to terror-hit Mumbai

David C MulfordNew Delhi, Nov. 29 : U. S. Ambassador to India, David C Mulford, on Saturday condemned the terror strikes in Mumbai, and said that he had been directed by President George W Bush to offer cooperation to the Indian authorities.

Send Pasha, we will put him up in the best suite in Mumbai''s Taj Hotel

MumbaiNew Delhi, Nov. 29 : Does the intelligence chief of one country go to another because the Prime Minister of that country summons him? He doesn''t. And especially not if it is the ISI chief and the Prime Minister is an Indian.

It was naïve to think that Dr Manmohan Singh would tell Mr. Asif Zardari, send your ISI chief and the chief would come marching on from Wagah border.

An ISI chief has never come to India and a RAW chief has never been to Pakistan.

But Zardari said ''yes ''. Not just the ISI chief but he would send Army Chief Ashfaq Kayani, who is himself and ex-director general of the ISI.

India''s economic future under threat after Mumbai terror strikes: Experts

Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal NathNew Delhi, Nov. 29 : The terrorist siege in Mumbai is likely to threaten India’s economic future, economists and investors said.

India’s economy had already been slowing significantly, because of the global credit crunch and the rupee’s decline, they told the New York Times, adding that in the wake of the attack, foreign investors and business executives would be even more cautious about investing in India, at least in the short term.

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