As many as 68 percent voters exercised their franchise for assembly polls in Rajasthan on Thursday.
"The polling percentage is expected to be around 68 percentages as we are still compiling the figures," election commission officials said. Same percent turnout was registered in the 2003 Assembly elections.
There were 43,000 polling stations in 33 districts where 43,000 EVMs were used. Mechanical problems were reported in about 150 EVMs which were replaced immediately, they said.
Rajasthan has a 200 seated assembly with 3.62 crore-strong voters.
The Planning Commission of India called off a visit of its officials to Pakistan last Friday in the wake of the growing tension between the two countries.
A new research claims that too much exercise in pregnancy may cause dangerous high blood pressure. For study, more than 85,000 women were enrolled at the Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC) between 1996 and 2002. The researchers found that due to intense physical activity oxidative stress induces in the mother and contributes to the development of pre-eclampsia. 
A new study carried out by Dr Coren Apicella, an anthropologist at Harvard University, U.S, found that females preferred males with deeper voice and males preferred higher pitched women. The researchers conducted the study on a remote tribe of hunter-gatherers in Africa, involved playing two versions of the same voice to the Hadza tribe in Tanzania. 
At least 15 passengers were injured when 14 bogies of a train derailed in the early hours of Thursday in Andhra Pradesh. 
Under Rajeev Gandhi Grameen Vidyut Yojana, leading infrastructure and construction development company Maytas Infra Ltd has received Rs 222.25 crore contracts for four rural electrification works from state-run Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.
