Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's governing coalition won a tight national election on Sunday to extend its 56-year rule, fending off an opposition alliance that pledged to clean up politics and end race-based policies in Southeast Asia's third-largest economy.
As counting went late into the night, the fractious multiracial opposition proved unable to unseat one of the world's longest-serving governments and pull off what would have been the biggest election upset in Malaysia's history.
The ruling Barisan Nasional (BN), or National Front, passed 112 seats, giving it a simple majority in the 222-seat national parliament. The opposition alliance had 60 seats.
With more than two-thirds of seat results confirmed, it remained to be seen if Prime Minister Najib Razak would receive a strong enough mandate to continue gradual reforms aimed at boosting investment and easing authoritarian laws....
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01:13 AM, May 06, 2013
Rome: Italian centre-left politician Enrico Letta named a coalition government on Saturday, making one of Silvio Berlusconi's closest allies deputy prime minister and ending two months of damaging political stalemate. Letta has said his priorities would be the economy, unemployment and restoring faith in Italy's discredited political institutions as well as trying to turn Europe away from austerity to focus more on growth and investment. An inconclusive general election in...
06:35 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Hyderabad: In an indirect reference to JD(U) raising objections on announcing Narendra Modi as the Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP, senior saffron party leader M Venkaiah Naidu said it is not appropriate for the ally to comment on the Gujarat Chief Minister now. "BJP has not discussed about Prime Ministerial candidate. The alliance partners have got every right to have their own view. They can also suggest (on the Prime...
05:35 PM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: In the backdrop of NDA ally JD(U)'s attack on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President Rajnath Singh on Sunday said relationship with coalition partners will "remain good". "Our relationships with all the coalition partners were good, are good and will remain good," he told reporters in Delhi without elaborating when asked about his reaction to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's criticism of Modi. Singh was speaking on...
02:00 AM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: After a stern warning from the Janata Dal (United) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) prime ministerial candidate, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hit out at its biggest ally saying it should refrain from targeting its allies and instead focus on removing the "corrupt" United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Nitish had, in a veiled threat to the BJP, made it clear that...
07:15 PM, Apr 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Janata Dal (United) has set the terms for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), giving out a stern message on the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) prime ministerial nominee. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar did not name the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, but made it very clear he is not acceptable as a PM candidate. The JD(U) has set a deadline till the end of the year to...
05:39 PM, Apr 14, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came under attack again by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi who said Manmohan was not accepted as a leader within his own party. As Modi goes on overdrive, one of the big questions is as to whether in this era of coalition politics, he could lead a coalition government. The JD(U) for one has rejected Modi's mantra, saying the Gujarat model cannot apply to...
09:18 AM, Apr 10, 2013
It was disappointing that growth had slowed to five per cent but this was temporary and the government was taking corrective measures to get back to eight percent growth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday. Addressing the annual meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the prime minister said the government and business have to be partners in writing the story of development. ...
11:50 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a poll pitch to the industry and said that all regulatory hurdles will be removed. Manmohan inaugurated the two-day annual general meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Wednesday and asked corporate India to reflect on their social roles more carefully. ...
11:00 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday accused the the National Conference (NC)-Congress coalition of plunging the state into "political instability" and said the "prevailing uncertainty" was the result of the government's wrong policies. "From day one when this government was formed, there is instability and uncertainty in the state. The state has been plunged into morass and political instability due to the wrong policies of the present National Conference-Congress regime,"...
02:00 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Against the backdrop of Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's attacks on UPA and Congress, Union Minister Manish Tewari on Friday said the ruling party and the alliance know how to run a coalition. ...
09:43 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav hinted that a coalition government is the need of the country as the political scenario at the national level is favouring emergence of third front. ...
11:20 PM, Mar 26, 2013
Even as SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav signalled at pulling the plug on the UPA government, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari said the government is not in danger. "Third or Fourth Front is a permanent mirage of Indian politics," he added. ...
04:06 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Deutsche Bank believes the recent investor pessimism in India is overdone and sticks to its BSE Sensex target of 22,500 by the end of December. Deutsche says the government may shift to executive decisions to pass its agenda, focusing on actions that do not require parliamentary approval, thus reducing concerns about its reform agenda after a key ally withdrew from the ruling coalition. ...
03:15 PM, Mar 25, 2013
DMK chief M Karunanidhi withdrawing support to the central coalition some one year before Lok Sabha elections was the second such action in the past decade. He pulled out his 18-member party out of Congress-led UPA on Tuesday and five DMK representatives in the Council of Ministers submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday. ...
11:53 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The DMK, the second largest constituent of the ruling coalition, the UPA, has officially withdrawn support from it. A delegation of DMK leaders, led by TR Baalu, handed over the letter of withdrawal of support from the UPA to President Pranab Mukherjee at 10.30 pm on Tuesday. The UPA is in minority in Parliament now. The coalition government will be more than ever at the mercy of powerful but fickle ...
11:47 PM, Mar 19, 2013
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the second biggest constituent of the ruling government, severed ties with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) on Tuesday, but the move posed no immediate threat to the minority government, which said it is "stable and will continue to stay in power". The M Karunanidhi-led DMK, which, for days had been threatening to pull out from the UPA in protest against government not taking up its...
09:08 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel, whose party is part of UPA government, on Friday said the UPA-II government has shot itself in the foot by delaying key reforms. Heavy Industries Minister Praful Patel said the UPA-II has not been able to emulate the success story of UPA-I. ...
01:04 AM, Mar 16, 2013
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is accusing the Taliban and the US of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence will worsen if foreign troops leave. ...
03:03 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Israeli President Shimon Peres has granted incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a two-week extension to form a governing coalition. Talks with potential coalition partners have been deadlocked for the past 28 days. ...
10:05 AM, Mar 03, 2013
