Polls
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Outsourcing Hot Issue Near Polls, India Trade Balanced: Blake
World | Apr 27, 2011, 12:21 PM ISTWashington, Apr 27 : With political parties in the United States gradually entering election mode, a top Obama Administration official has acknowledged that "outsourcing” could be one of the campaign issues, but unlike the past,
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Tamil Nadu A challenging Case: CEC
National | Apr 08, 2011, 05:22 PM ISTNew Delhi, Apr 8: Calling Tamil Nadu a "challenging case", the Election Commission today said it cannot "close its eyes to rampant malpractices" there and rejected the charge levelled by DMK and PMK that it
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AIADMK Will Decisively Win TN Polls, says Karat
National | Apr 06, 2011, 06:02 PM ISTCoimbatore, Apr 6: CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat today claimed that the AIADMK-led alliance will have such a decisive victory in the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls that no question would arise of the Left Front
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Lokpal Bill Is A Farce On The Public: Former Judge Rajinder Sachar
India | Apr 06, 2011, 03:32 PM ISTNew Delhi, April 6: Former chief justice of Delhi High Court rajinder Sachar says that the government draft of Lokpal Bill, 2010 is a farce on the public. Writing in The Economic Times, Sachar says,
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MDMK Not To Contest; Upset Over AIADMK's 'Adamant Attitude'
National | Mar 20, 2011, 07:27 PM ISTChennai, Mar 20: Upset over AIADMK's "adamant attitude and ill-treatment", MDMK today quit the electoral battle for the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls even as the AIADMK's new found ally DMDK is negotiating hard with its
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No Hitch With TC In WB, Says Congress
National | Mar 14, 2011, 06:28 PM ISTNew Delhi, Mar 14 : Congress today made no bones about its ambition to increase its "political space" in West Bengal but at the same ruled out any "hitch" with its alliance partner Trinamool Congress
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Left Routed In Kerala Municipal Polls, Congress Surges Ahead
National | Oct 27, 2010, 12:49 PM ISTThiruvananthapuram, Oct 27: The ruling CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front in Kerala today suffered a major jolt with the opposition UDF wresting two city corporations and dominating the race in muncipalities for which counting was taken
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Myanmar Captures A White Elephant Ahead Of Polls
World | Sep 25, 2010, 02:45 PM ISTYANGON, Sept 25: Myanmar's state-controlled media hailed Saturday the capture of a rare white elephant as a positive omen for upcoming elections, the first balloting in two decades in the military-ruled country. The 7-foot, 1-inch
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Maha Polls; Samiti Replaces Kalavati With Another Farm Widow
National | Sep 26, 2009, 09:22 AM ISTIn the midst of flip-flops by farm widow Kalavati Bandurkar on contesting the Maharashtra Assembly polls, the NGO supporting her candidature replaced her by another woman. "Since Kalavati is not well and under tremendous pressure
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Congress-TC Wins Siliguri Civic Polls After 27 Years
National | Sep 18, 2009, 05:31 AM ISTTrouble deepened for the ruling Left Front in West Bengal as it lost the Siliguri municipality to the Trinamool Congress-Congress combine after 27 years. The Opposition alliance bagged 29 seats of the 47-member board, while