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  More big-name Republicans abandon Trump; he just shrugs

  World | May 07, 2016 7:07 IST

  Washington: 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

  Politics | April 04, 2016 13:48 IST

  Chennai: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 | September 16, 2015 20:07 IST

  New 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

  Politics | September 16, 2015 8:17 IST

  New 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 | June 28, 2015 18:53 IST

  Kolkata: 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

  Politics | November 11, 2014 23:35 IST

  Srinagar:  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 IST

  New 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 | April 08, 2014 13:00 IST

  Bhubaneswar: 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 | March 15, 2014 6:41 IST

  New 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 | October 29, 2013 21:34 IST

  New 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 | September 25, 2013 20:11 IST

  New 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 | August 07, 2013 22:42 IST

  Gurgaon, 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

  Politics | July 29, 2013 18:06 IST

  New 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 | July 25, 2013 18:01 IST

  Canberra, 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

  Politics | September 23, 2012 13:57 IST

  New 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

  Politics | April 07, 2012 21:53 IST

  Patna, 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?

  Politics | March 17, 2012 22:13 IST

  New 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 | February 23, 2012 14:00 IST

  Bijnore, 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

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  Goa BJP Disowns Tainted MGP Candidate Tarcar

  Politics | February 10, 2012 14:46 IST

  Panaji, Feb 10: BJP leader Manohar Parrikar  has said he would not campaign for Dinar Tarcar, who had been indicted by state's Public Accounts Committee for illegal mining.“We cannot dictate to our alliance partners whom

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  Shiv Sena Not To Field Candidate Against Chavan

  India | April 22, 2011 20:00 IST

  Mumbai, Apr 22: Shiv Sena today lent a helping hand to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, who is trying to get elected to the state Legislative Council, saying that it will not field any candidate