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Apr 30 2009
Polling booths opened at 7:00am (0130 GMT), with voting in most districts set to end at 5:00pm. Among the nine states voting are parts of impoverished Bihar and populous Uttar Pradesh in the north, Gujarat in the west, the southern agricultural state...
Apr 30 2009
Even before the mysteriously timed judicial intervention materialised four days before Gujarat went to the polls, Chief Minister Narendra Modi had come to define the election scene in the State. His personality, political persona and administrative...
Apr 28 2009
The leaders of the MPP met the election commissioner Navin Chawla at the ECI conference hall in New Delhi this evening around 4.30 pm. The team will return to Imphal tomorrow, a source said. Meanwhile, as a part of the line of action taken up by the...
Apr 25 2009
Kashmir’s main separatist alliance has called on the people of the region to boycott India’s ongoing general elections. The decision by the All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference on Friday prompted the authorities to place two separatist...
Apr 25 2009
Mumbai: The special sessions court at the Arthur Road jail on Friday ordered an enquiry into the age of Ajmal, the accused in the Mumbai terror attack case, to determine whether he is a major or a minor. Accordingly, medical examinations comprising a...
Apr 22 2009
Panaji: “The Left parties are not averse to joining a Third Front government to ensure its stability, if the formation comes to power post-election,” stated A. B. Bardhan, general secretary of Communist Party of India here on Tuesday.
Apr 21 2009
Jorhat (Assam), Apr 21 (ANI): Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi refuted charges of a “weak government” against the UPA Government made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “During elections, the BJP raises new issues and says...
Apr 20 2009
LUCKNOW: In a strong rejoinder to the BJP prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani’s charge that Manmohan Singh is a weak and indecisive Prime Minister, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday said the so-called “strong leader” was incapable of...
Feb 24 2009
Last night the 81st Annual Academy Awards aka the Oscars were on last night. I was kinda sorta watching it, but nowadays, I don’t really watch TV. I kinda just have it one in the background, and I glance at it every now and then, while I surf the...
Jan 9 2009
Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh, along with scores of his supporters, was Friday arrested here while they were protesting against the gang rape of a girl in this suburb adjoining the capital.