April 29, 2013
Had Narendra Modi been unleashed on Karnataka’s voters a little earlier, he might have helped prevent at least a shameful defeat that seems to stare the Bharatiya Janata Party in the face in the coming Assembly polls.
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New Delhi, April 28
More than 50,000 central paramilitary forces personnel will be deployed during the forthcoming Assembly elections in Karnataka to ensure free and fair polls.
The Centre has earmarked a to...
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New Delhi, April 14
Sharad Yadav was today unanimously re-elected JD(U)’s national President for the third consecutive time even as he made a fervent appeal to keep the NDA alliance intact.
“I will work to...
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Vatican City, Mar 14
Argentina’s Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis I yesterday, becoming the church’s first Latin American pontiff after a conclave to elect a leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics....
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Shillong, Feb 28
The Congress retained power in Meghalaya after emerging as the single largest party, bagging 29 seats, 2 short of an absolute majority, in the Assembly election results that were declared today.
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Hyderabad, Feb. 22
A total of 75 crore voters in the country will be empowered with online information. It will have names, details of polling stations and location maps, said H.S. Brahma, Election C...
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Agartala, Feb 14
Tripura today witnessed a massive turnout of 91.6 per cent of 23,52,505 voters in peaceful polling amid tight security for the 60-member House. The percentage of polling could rise as po...
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Berlin, Jan 21
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suffered a setback as her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was voted out of power in the State polls in Lower Saxony where the opposition alliance of the SPD an...
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May 8, 2013
The Congress should not interpret the Karnataka results as endorsement of the Centre’s performance or think that corruption doesn’t matter.
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April 29, 2013
Party leaders must realign their manifestos and campaign strategies to make women politically relevant.
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Caracas, April 15
Fraud allegations were rife late on Sunday in Venezuela, at the end of a presidential election as voters chose a successor to late president Hugo Chavez, their leader of 14 years, who died of canc...
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Washington, March 29
US President Barack Obama has constituted a commission on electoral reforms to come up with recommendations towards promoting efficient conduct of elections.
The Presidential Commission o...
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Vatican City, Mar 13
Cardinals prepared for a second day of conclave behind the Vatican’s walls to elect a pope today, with all eyes on a chimney that will signal when there is a new leader for the world’s 1.2 billion...
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Agartala, Feb 27
Counting of votes for the 60 assembly seats in Tripura would be held tomorrow amid tight security.
“The counting will be held in 17 venues in eight districts of the state with three-tier...
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Bangalore, Feb 15
Vice President M Hamid Ansari has called for electoral reforms, including compulsory voting and proportional representation in legislatures representing all sections of society.
“To give...
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Agartala, Feb 13
Battle lines have been drawn up for tomorrow’s polls to the 60-member Tripura Assembly where heavyweights Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, TPCC President Sudip Ray Barman and President of Indigenous N...
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New Delhi, Dec 20
Narendra Modi’s third consecutive victory in Gujarat has once again triggered talk within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that he should now take a key role in national politics.
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