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BJP names Alphons Kannanthanam as candidate for RS bypoll in Rajasthan
National | Oct 29, 2017, 11:04 PM ISTUnion minister Alphons Kannanthanam will be the BJP candidate for the Rajya Sabha bypoll in Rajasthan to be held on November 16, the party announced today.
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Now, BJP candidates in Kerala defend Modi over Somalia comparison
National | May 14, 2016, 11:18 AM ISTThiruvananthapuram:There may be a lot of anger against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comparison of Kerala with Somalia, but BJP candidates, leaders and activists are backing their leader. They insist Modi did no wrong by highlighting
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More big-name Republicans abandon Trump; he just shrugs
World | May 07, 2016, 07:07 AM ISTWashington: Big-name GOP leaders piled on Friday against Donald Trump in an extraordinary show of Republican-vs.-Republican discontent over his winning the party's presidential nomination. Trump just shrugged it off, declaring they didn't really matt
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Tamil Nadu Assembly polls: AIADMK releases candidates list, Jayalalithaa to contest from RK Nagar
National | Apr 04, 2016, 01:48 PM ISTChennai:AIADMK general secretary and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa announced on Monday that she will seek re-election from the Radhakrishnan Nagar constituency here. At a time when other parties are finalising seat sharing arrangements
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Russia assures India of support on UNSC permanent seat bid
World | Sep 16, 2015, 08:07 PM ISTNew Delhi: Russia has assured its support to India for permanent membership in the UN Security Council, days after it along with the US and China refused to contribute to the text for negotiations on
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Bihar Polls: BJP declares 43 candidates in first list
National | Sep 16, 2015, 08:17 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday released its first list of candidates for Bihar assembly polls with 43 names.The list, announced after a meeting of party's central election committee which was attended
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ITI Entrance Exam deferred as question paper leaked
India | Jun 28, 2015, 06:53 PM ISTKolkata: The West Bengal government cancelled today's scheduled Industrial Training Institute entrance examination and deferred it to July 5 after question papers were allegedly leaked.Announcing this here today, state's Technical Education and Training Minister Ujjal
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J&K candidate mentions 'unmarried daughter's marriage' as liability in poll affidavit
National | Nov 11, 2014, 11:35 PM ISTSrinagar: Sparking a controversy, a Congress candidate for the Jammu & Kashmir assembly elections has mentioned the marriage of his daughter as a "liability" in his affidavit submitted along with his nomination papers.Under the liabilities
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Narendra Modi first prime ministerial candidate to run from Varanasi
India | May 12, 2014, 11:51 AM ISTNew Delhi: Narendra Modi is the first prime ministerial candidate to stand in the 3,000-year-old city, where one in six voters are Muslim.Varanasi is an ancient centre of Buddhism; Hindus believe that to die here
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Odisha candidate barred from using Padma Shri as title
India | Apr 08, 2014, 01:00 PM ISTBhubaneswar: Dilip Tirkey, a former member of the Indian hockey team who is contesting from Sundergarh Lok Sabha constituency on a Biju Janata Dal ticket, has been barred from using the Padma Shri award as
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SC notice on plea for restricting candidate to one constituency
India | Mar 15, 2014, 06:41 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the central government and the Election Commission on a petition seeking direction that no candidate could simultaneously contest election from more than one constituency for
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Congress releases list of 24 candidates for Chhattisgarh
India | Oct 29, 2013, 09:34 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Congress today released its third list of 24 candidates for the Chhattisgarh assembly elections.Following are the names of 24 candidates :Bharatpur-snhat ST : Gulab Singh Kamro, Mahendragarh: ghulab Singh, Bhatgaon: Paras Rajwade,
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Indian-American mayoral candidate faces racial slur in NJ
World | Sep 25, 2013, 08:11 PM ISTNew York: In an apparent act of racism, election sign boards of an Indian-American mayoral candidate and his running mates in New Jersey have been defaced with a swastika and words “Never In Edison”.Sudhanshu Prasad,
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AAP candidate Santosh Koli succumbs to injuries in road mishap
India | Aug 07, 2013, 10:42 PM ISTGurgaon, Aug 7: Santosh Koli, a close aide of Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party candidate for Delhi polls who was critically injured in an accident, died today in a Gurgaon hospital after battling for
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Wealth of frequently contesting candidates grows by up to 1000 pc: ADR survey
National | Jul 29, 2013, 06:06 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jul 29: Wealth of most of the candidates contesting more than once in a decade has grown “abnormally” by up to 1,000 per cent, especially for the ones with serious criminal charges who
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Julian Assange names WikiLeaks Party candidates
World | Jul 25, 2013, 06:01 PM ISTCanberra, Jul 25: Secrets spiller Julian Assange has launched his WikiLeaks Party's Senate candidate team for Australian elections this year.Assange, a 41-year-old Australian citizen who last left his homeland in 2010, addressed the party launch
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No split in NDA over PM candidate for 2014 poll: Gadkari
National | Sep 23, 2012, 01:57 PM ISTNew Delhi, Aug 16: BJP on Thursday claimed there was no divide in NDA on the issue of its Prime Ministerial candidate for 2014 parliamentary polls and said a decision will be taken only after
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Rabri Devi To Be RJD Candidate For Legislative Council Election
National | Apr 07, 2012, 09:53 PM ISTPatna, Apr 7: Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi would be RJD's candidate for the ensuing biennial elections to the state legislative council. RJD secretary general and MP Ram Kripal Yadav said the legislature party
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Somnath To Be Cong-Left Backed Candidate For RS?
National | Mar 17, 2012, 10:13 PM ISTNew Delhi/Kolkata, Mar 17: Even as the Dinesh Trivedi controversy refuses to die down, a Rajya Sabha seat could become another bone of contention between Congress and Trinamool amid a buzz that Somnath Chatterjee could
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Actor Nagma Explodes As Congress Candidate's Finger Caressed Her While Garlanding
India | Feb 23, 2012, 02:00 PM ISTBijnore, UP, Feb 23: The act was not there at all in the script. The script was confined to Bollywood actor Nagma endorsing the candidature of Congress candidate Hussain Ahmed Ansari, but Hussain went a