Himachal Pradesh has registered a voter turnout of 73.92 percent in the November 4 assembly elections instead of 75 percent as reported earlier, the Election Commission (EC) said in Shimla on Tuesday, scaling down the figures after final checkup.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar appears anxious about the outcome of Gujarat Assembly elections as it was likely to have a bearing on the JD(U) leader's political future, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Sunday said.

Voting for second and final phase of Gujarat assembly elections 2012 ended on Monday evening with millions casting their ballot at 23, 318 polling booths of the state. Elections in the second phase were held in 95 of the total of 182 constituencies.

The battle line between the ruling BJP and the Congress has drawn in Gujarat with the Election Commission announcing poll dates for two phases assembly polls to be held on December 13 and 17.

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh said on Tuesday that there was a need to change the judicial system to deal with rape and corruption related cases.

Several stalwarts of Pakistani politics, including ex-Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, bit the dust in the polls which saw a large number of people exercising their vote for a historic democratic transition in the country.

A total of 69 candidates in the fray for Himachal Assembly elections are facing criminal cases against them, an election watchdog has found.

Campaigning just two days before the assembly polls in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh on Friday said he was "101 percent sure" that Congress would come to power in the state.

Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha and one of BJP's main strategists Arun Jaitley on Thursday met Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and discussed the strategy for the next phase of the party's assembly poll campaign which begins from Monday.

PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has made a triumphant return to the centre stage of Pakistani politics at a time when the country is bedeviled by immense problems ranging from a tanking economy, corruption to Taliban insurgency.