Washington: President Barack Obama seems to think that the world of politics would be better if someone like John McCain were running for the White House. The Democratic incumbent and his re-election advisers are waxing nostalgic about the Republican senator from Arizona who lost to Obama in the 2008 presidential race. They're embracing McCain as a reasonable voice on climate change and immigration, someone who took on extremism in his...
08:20 AM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation led by party president Nitin Gadkari met President Pratibha Devisingh Patil on Wednesday and demanded the removal of Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal for her alleged involvement in a graft case. The delegation had spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman, MPs Balbir Punj, Bhupendra Yadav and Arjun Meghwal and party secretary Kirit Somaiya, along with some other party leaders from Gujarat. However, senior party leaders like...
05:17 PM, May 30, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dismissed reports of being in the Presidential race. ...
09:12 AM, May 30, 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
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
Cairo: A group of unruly protesters ransacked and set ablaze the campaign headquarters of Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq in Cairo, after the Election Commission announced that Hosni Mubarak's the last prime minister made it into a run off vote with an Islamist rival. Around 400 people arrived from the direction of Tahrir Square shouting slogans against remnants of the former regime on May 28 night. They broke into the...
11:49 AM, May 29, 2012
Cairo: Egyptians must choose between a Muslim Brother or an ex-military man in a presidential run-off that highlights the stark rifts in a nation united in euphoria when Hosni Mubarak fell 15 months ago, first-round results indicated on Friday. With most votes counted, the Muslim Brotherhood said its candidate Mohamed Mursi had topped this week's polls and would compete in next month's second round with former air force chief Ahmed...
02:01 AM, May 26, 2012
Mumbai: Decks were cleared for a second consecutive term for Nitin Gadkari as BJP President with the national executive on Thursday amending the party constitution to facilitate the move. Gadkari's current term as president ends in December when he is expected to get a second term, thereby giving him a tenure upto December 2015. A resolution amending the party constitution was moved at the national executive meeting here by former...
11:10 PM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday asked Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to support APJ Abdul Kalam for the post of President instead of NCP leader PA Sangma whom she had already chosen. In a statement, Swamy said she should support Kalam for the post of president. "She should phone him up and persuade him to become her candidate. Sangma has lost all moral authority to be...
05:37 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Left Front met in the national capital on Wednesday to decide on their choice of a Presidential candidate. But they have decided to wait for the UPA government to announce their candidate first before taking a decision on who to support. Presidential hopeful PA Sangma met CPM Politburo leader Prakash Karat on Tuesday to gather support but the CPI says supporting Sangma at this stage is tantamount...
03:25 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has struck a deal with the Congress and agreed to back UPA-II's Presidential candidate, sources say. Even though the bonhomie between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party is growing there is no talk of the latter joining the government, at least till the Presidential polls are over, sources add. With the Samajwadi Party's support in the Presidential polls, the UPA's strength will...
11:09 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: NCP leader and former Lok Sabha speaker PA Sangma, in a bid to win over UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi apologised to her on the foreign origin issue of 1999. "I had apologised to Sonia Gandhi on the foreign origin issue," Sangma said. This came after Sonia snubbed him denying him an appointment. Sangma's dream of becoming the next President of India suffered a major blow on Tuesday as...
09:34 AM, May 23, 2012
Cairo: Egyptians vote on Wednesday for the first time to pick their President in a wide open election that pits Islamists against men who served under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak. The contest is a novelty for a nation where elections during the 30-year rule of a man some called "Pharaoh" were thinly attended rigmaroles in which the result was a foregone conclusion. This time Egypt's 50 million eligible voters are...
07:20 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Left parties will be meeting on Wednesday to firm up their strategy for the upcoming Presidential elections. The CPM says no decision has been taken yet on PA Sangma who met Prakash Karat on Tuesday. The Left parties say the Congress must declare its candidate first, but they are also open to a consensus non-Congress secular name. The Samajwadi Party on Tuesday indicated its support to UPA...
06:19 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party on Tuesday indicated its support to UPA candidate for President's post provided he is not a bureaucrat. "One condition, he should not be a bureaucrat," SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav told reporters here when asked whether SP would support a Congress candidate. Yadav replied in the negative to another query whether his party will join the UPA government. At the 3rd anniversary of UPA II...
03:26 AM, May 23, 2012
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