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Chennai, June 2 (IANS) Senior Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, on Tuesday met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and TVK President C. Joseph Vijay at the State Secretariat, triggering fresh political speculation over the forthcoming Rajya Sabha bye-election from the state.The meeting comes at a crucial time as political parties begin consultations ahead of the bye-election announced by the Election Commission of India to fill a vacant Rajya Sabha seat.The vacancy arose a…

Agartala, April 9 (IANS) More than 79.84 per cent of the 46,142 voters exercised their vote in the bypoll for the Dharmanagar Assembly constituency in North Tripura district on Thursday, officials said.An election official said that no major untoward incident was reported during the polling, which began at 7 a.m. across 55 polling stations in the Dharmanagar Assembly seat.Polling continued in the mixed-population Assembly constituency until 5 p.m. without any break.At a few polling stations, the…