Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Friday ruled out the prospect of the state facing early assembly elections and asserted that the BJP government would complete its full term. Reports suggesting that the state might face assembly elections ahead of its schedule were "incorrect", he said. Gowda's remarks contradicted a claim by his predecessor BS Yeddyrappa who had said on May 30 that the state was likely to...
02:54 AM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: The rift between the BJP top brass is out in the open with senior leader LK Advani criticising party president Nitin Gadkari over the crucial decisions taken during UP elections and also the handling of the crisis in Jharkhand and Karnataka units of the party. Advani took on Gadkari in his blog, saying that the mood in the BJP is not upbeat. "The mood within the party these...
01:02 PM, May 31, 2012
Cairo: Little in Libya ever gets done in a timely manner. In commerce and government, bureaucratic inertia and a lack of accountability delay even the most mundane of administrative tasks. Which is why it was so telling these last few weeks that Libyans defied the pessimists, shrugged off security worries and quickly registered the populace ahead of a historic June 19 parliamentary vote. And why it is so alarming that...
12:59 AM, May 31, 2012
Washington: Mitt Romney clinched the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday with a win in the Texas primary, a triumph of endurance for a candidate who came up short four years ago and had to fight hard this year as voters flirted with a carousel of GOP rivals. According to the Associated Press count, Romney surpassed the 1,144 delegates needed to win the nomination by winning at least 88 delegates in...
08:03 AM, May 30, 2012
Cairo: Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate in Egypt's presidential election has reached out to assure women and Christians that he would guarantee their rights if elected in an effort to broaden his support base before a tight run-off vote on June 16. The Islamist candidate, will go head to head with runner-up Ahmed Shafiq, a former military man widely seen as the standard bearer of the regime of Hosni...
12:58 AM, May 30, 2012
Ahmedabad: In his bid to wean away Muslim voters from Congress' fold in election year, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is making efforts that include experimenting social engineering and even shedding his saffron persona to woo the community towards BJP. In what appears to be a well thought out strategy, Modi is holding a meeting of the state BJP Minority Cell at Staff Training College in Gandhinagar on Wednesday to...
11:00 PM, May 29, 2012
Law Minister Salman Khurshid has said that minority sub-quotas are not aimed at minority appeasement but the empowerment of all communities. ...
10:14 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: It's a blow which the government was quick to recover from. Less than 24 hours after Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the sub-quota for minorities, the government is adamant to pursue it. The government has proposed creation of a 4.5 per cent sub-quota for notified minority groups out of the 27 per cent reservation meant for OBCs - a move which the Opposition says smacks of votebank...
09:44 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission is understood to have decided not to intervene in the matter concerning the arrest of YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, whose mother has sought his release in view of the coming by-polls in Andhra Pradesh. The three-member Election Commission met on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi and discussed the letter from YS Vijayalakshmi, YSR Congress honorary president, seeking a...
03:44 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission is likely to issue its notification for the Presidential election by mid-June, setting in motion the process of election to the country's top post. President Pratibha Patil's term ends on July 24 and the EC notification in this regard will be issued sometime in mid-June. "The notification for the last Presidential election was issued on June 13. The EC will be issuing a notification around...
03:22 PM, May 29, 2012
Hyderabad: Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy's mother and the party honorary chief YS Vijaya on Monday requested Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi to direct CBI to release her son in larger interest of democracy and sought holding of free and fair elections in Andhra Pradesh. In a letter addressed to Quraishi, Vijaya alleged her son was arrested just days before the June 12 bypolls as part of a larger conspiracy...
12:37 AM, May 29, 2012
Hyderabad: As many as 242 candidates are in the fray for 18 Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh where by-elections will be held on June 12. For the Nellore Lok Sabha seat, 13 candidates stayed in contest as the last date for withdrawal of nominations ended on Monday, according to state Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwar Lal. Briefing newspersons in the evening, the CEO said 25 candidates, all of whom filed their...
10:18 PM, May 28, 2012
Athens: Three weeks before Greece has another election, opinion polls published on Sunday indicated the election will result in no single party gaining a majority in parliament, but two parties that favor implementing Greece's bailout programs could be able to form a coalition government. The four surveys show that Greek voters, tired of more than two years of austerity that have seen salaries and pensions cut and new taxes imposed,...
08:30 AM, May 28, 2012
NEYYATINKARA: Sundays may come and Sundays may go. But this Sunday was quite different for political parties and main contestants in the Neyyatinkara segment which goes for a bypoll in the weekend, as all of them thronged various parishes after the Mass to seek votes.Being the last Sunday before the bypoll on June 2, all the main candidates flocked to the parishes in the morning hours. While UDF candidate R...
08:12 AM, May 28, 2012
Kathmandu: Nepal's warring political parties said on Sunday they had failed to narrow their differences sufficiently to agree on a new constitution for the Himalayan republic before a midnight deadline, plunging the country into fresh political turmoil. A new constitution was widely seen as crucial to ending the instability that has plagued Nepal since the end of a Maoist-led civil war in 2006 and subsequent overthrow of the monarchy, but...
07:25 AM, May 28, 2012
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