The step, the CEC said, will help ensure there is no bogus voting and no voter is impersonated during polling.
The RJD chief however did not give a clear picture of his party's position on Lokpal.
In the wake of his pushing for controversial MLA DP Yadav's induction into the party, SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today sacked Mohan Singh as national spokesman.
The Omar Abdullah government completed two years in Jammu and Kashmir today.
The 30-page essay, which offers a number of tellings of the epic story of Lord Rama, including the Jain, Buddhist and Kannada narratives, had not gone down well with sections of the right wing, some of whom called it "blasphemous".
A number of mostly left-progressive groups of teachers and students also held a meeting today in the Arts Faculty lawns in the North Campus and expressed their disgust over the issue.
Congress today denied West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's charge that it was colluding with CPI(M) to attack her government on the issue of rechristening a house in Kolkata named after Indira Gandhi.
The Congress currently has 71 members in the Assembly.
The senior BJP leader alleged that despite model code of conduct in force pictures of Uttar Pradesh CM Mayawati are hanging in many government offices.
The state police is making plans for deployment of paramilitary troopers during the one-day poll on 28 January.
The West Bengal government was leading the state into a financial mess former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said.
Some separatist groups today said they are not against talks with the Centre for resolution of the Kashmir issue but maintained that the government needs to take certain steps before resumption of the dialogue process.
Possible cabinet expansion, Telangana statehood issue and the strategy to be adopted during the forthcoming by-elections are understood to have figured during discussions N Kiran Kumar Reddy today had with Sonia Gandhi.
Uttar Pradesh minister Chandradeo Ram Yadav has been found guilty of drawing salary from two places.
Chavan congratulated Hazare, who is not keeping well, for calling off his fast.
The Commission has advised candidates to open separate bank accounts for their election expenses.
To ensure free and fair elections in Uttar Pradesh, BJP today said that Election Commission should ensure that all top state officials working as "agents" of the ruling BSP are shifted out.
DMK president M Karunanidhi today said he will take up the Mullaperiyar dam issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Monday during his two-day visit to the state.
The Allahabad High Court today said a person holding constitutional post should not make any statement "which shall prove to be divisive in due course of time".
Gandhi also said doctors should focus on rural and remote areas which have been facing acute shortage of health professionals.
The party was earlier part of the NDA in 1998.
For a change, Anna Hazare, who has been dashing off letters to the Prime Minster insisting on a strong Lokpal bill, today spoke of offering a rose to Manmohan Singh if the Union Cabinet accepts his demand.
The BJP support is crucial as the Left parties are opposing the bills.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today pressed for reservation for backward Muslims and also said a clear victory for BSP in the upcoming state assembly elections would be the best birthday gift.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said if voted to power his party would revive the fortunes of the state and people from outside will flock UP for jobs.
Although no consensus is arrived upon by political parties, the government hopes the bill will reach Parliament in this session itself.
The house reassembled after half-an-hour and functioned smoothly till 1pm.
Pointing to "serious disadvantages" in parliamentary democracy, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor today said time has come to revive the debate on adopting the "Presidential kind system" in India.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court today directed the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate to put on hold their preliminary investigation into the assets of former Chief Minister and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu.
The legendary cricketer rubbished claims that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was sponsoring Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party.