The deficit during the same period last year was 33.3 per cent of Budget Estimates.
The fate of as many as 1,616 candidates contesting in the twin elections for Odisha Assembly and Lok Sabha, will be decided on Friday as the Election Commission made all required arrangements for counting of votes.
In a bid to woo Muslims, Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday said if voted to power, his party would ensure amendments are made in the constitution for their reservation and said only SP could prevent BJP leader Narendra Modi from becoming the Prime Minister.
A woman legislator in Uttar Pradesh lodged a complaint with the speaker's office over two Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) legislators taking off their shirts in the assembly two days back, officials said on Friday.
Schumacher's wife says the racing legend's family wants to be left in peace as doctors treat him after a brutal ski crash.
The attack happened off the popular beaches of the Parana River where many Argentines were seeking relief from a heat wave over the holiday.
Mohun Bagan returned to winning ways with a 4-0 thrashing of United SC in an I-League fixture at the Yuba Bharati Krirangan.
Two soldiers were injured in an IED blast triggered by Naxals in the Maoist-hit Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh on the eve of the first phase of Assembly elections, police said.
Swetha Menon met Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and informed him about the Kollam incident when a Congress MP allegedly groped her.
The CPI said that ever since Modi was chosen as BJP's PM candidate, he was busy with national politics, and remained mostly outside the state.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday, ordered an immediate halt to death sentences, including that of many hard-core militants, till he has discussed the matter with President Asif Ali Zardari, an official spokesman said.
Years after being put on celluloid Rabindranath Tagore's eponymous, 'Streer Patro' has now come up in an audio book.
The company had bet big on the smartphone ecosystem when it purchased Palm for USD 1.2 billion in April 2010 but the webOS-based devices failed to take off.
On a mission to set in order the Congress state unit in Uttar Pradesh, newly appointed AICC general secretary Madhusudan Mistri will meet party MLAs, zonal in-charges and co-ordinators to get a first hand assessment to help chalk out the party's strategy...
The investigation will also focus on the alleged nexus between land grabbers and politicians, sources said.