Egypt's government said on Monday it plans to cut petroleum product subsidies in the next fiscal year but still expects the budget deficit to widen, signalling more tough times ahead as voters went to the polls to elect a new president.

More than 53 million Egyptians are voting on Monday and Tuesday in 14,000 stations across the republic to choose the countries next president.

Cabinet spokesperson Hossam al-Qawish said there will be no vacations on the two days of the presidential elections and called on government institutions to persuade employees to participate.

Millions of eligible Egyptian voters, equal to nearly 54 million voters, will head to polling stations on Monday and Tuesday on the 26 and 27 May to cast their ballots in the 2014 presidential elections being contested by former Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Hamdeen Sabbahi.

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the former army officer soon to be Egypt’s president, promises to remedy Egypt’s crippling fuel shortage by installing energy-efficient bulbs in every home socket, even if he has to send a government employee to screw in each one.

Eight people were killed and seven others injured when a microbus flipped in the Al-Farouqiya Canal in Sohag allegedly from overspeeding.

Along a busy Cairo roundabout, a poster portrays presidential frontrunner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as a teacher, engineer, doctor and judge, reassuring supporters who see him asEgypt's saviour.

Three independent political figures known for their opposition to the army's intervention in Islamist president Mohamed Morsi's ouster and the subsequent violent crackdown against his supporters issued a statement on Saturday calling for unity and a return to the ideals of the 25 January 2011 uprising.

A DUBLIN Leaving Cert student imprisoned in Egypt is running out of time to get out safely, his family fear.

Bajaj Auto is trading higher by 3% to Rs 2,017, extending its previous day’s 5% rally, on reports that Egypt government has lifted the ban on imports of two-wheelers and three-wheelers into the country which was in effect since February 2014.

The pro-Morsi National Coalition to Support Legitimacy and Reject the Coup on Thursday called for its followers to continue their public protests and to boycott what they dubbed ''the elections of blood'' for Egypt's next president, to be held on May 26 and 27.

The Egyptian foreign ministry on Monday announced its rejection of foreign intervention in Libya, calling on the neighbouring country's domestic parties to "end divisions and stop bloodshed."

An Al-Azhar University student threw a Shrapnel Bomb behind the dean of the Faculty of Commerce Wednesday, as he was inspecting exams, but the bomb didn’t fully explode, Saeed Abdel Aaal, the dean, said, according to AL-Watan news website.

Cairo Court for Urgent Matters in Abdeen decreed lack of jurisdiction in lawsuit requesting ban of activities of the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) and seizure of the headquarters, according to judicial source.

Egypt's elections commission announced on Wednesday that 296,628 (94.5%) Egyptians living abroad have voted for former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi while 17,207 (5.4%) have voted for leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi.

The Administrative Judiciary Court ruled on Tuesday that it has no jurisdiction over a case demanding a legislative amendment permitting the death penalty for minors who rape or murder other children, amid a rise in such incidents.

An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced ousted president Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison on charges of stealing public funds.

Egypt's former military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to romp home in this month's presidential election, but his challenge will be fighting poverty and rebuilding the shattered economy.

In his campaign platform, presidential candidate and former defense minister Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi seeks to bolster the fishing industry by developing a new vision for the Nile, creating a natural pasture for fisheries along the shorelines of the Mediterranean and Red Seas.

The platform of the former defence minister Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, released Tuesday on his official website, includes a set of mechanisms intended to solve the energy crisis plaguing Egypt. Most notably the platform seeks to diversify sources of energy rather than rely on natural gas and petroleum products.

The vision put forward by Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Sisi’s electoral platform aims to develop a new administrative map and investment map for the governorates in order to “realise the Egyptian dream on 100% of Egyptian land”.