By Our Special Correspondent New Delhi Aug. 16: The Congress is uncomfortable with Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami ahead of the general elections. Though the party is reluctant to raise its voice against him in...
By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Chandigarh Aug. 14: Severely divided for more than a year since the state Assembly polls last year, the Punjab Congress on Thursday put up a rare unified show in a concerted bid to "put things in...
New Delhi News.Net Wednesday 13th August, 2008 (IANS) AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday said her party would look at other serious contenders like Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati as a prime ministerial candidate...
As we prepare to celebrate independent India’s entry into its sixth decade, incendiary flames engulf Jammu and Kashmir, grievously threatening the unity and integrity of our country. The dispute centres round a widely...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will review the right of political parties to promise populist freebies—such as television sets—in their manifestoes in the run-up to elections and then finance the programme through tax money after...
For general elections, BJP and Congress will have to listen more to state-level dissidents The Indian Express : Twenty-five of the BJP’s Uttarakhand MLAs are camping out in Delhi, claiming that their chief minister, B.C....
Karachi News.Net Monday 11th August, 2008 (IANS) Islamabad, Aug 11 (Xinhua) The provincial assembly in Pakistan's Punjab province Monday passed a resolution asking President Pervez Musharraf to take a vote of confidence. The...
New Delhi (PTI): The BSP on Monday became the first political party to announce candidates for the Lok Sabha seats from the national capital for the upcoming general elections, clearing names for three out of the seven...
NEW DELHI: With general elections less than a year away, India's state leader Mayawati vowed yesterday that she would become the country's prime minister. Mayawati, dubbed the "dalit queen" - a group on the lowest rung of...
Kuala Lumpur (PTI): Joining issues with the British delegation here, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Friday asserted that no "deal" was made to support Malaysia's candidature to a senior post in the Commonwealth...