Kokrajhar tense: Curfew, call for indefinite bandh
August 24th, 2012 - 2:31 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, Aug 24 (IANS) The situation continues to be tense in Kokhrajhar in Assam's Bodoland Territorial Areas Districts (BTAD) after indefinite curfew was imposed Thursday morning.The curfew was imposed after ... Read more...
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Assam legislator held for role in ethnic violence (Lead)
August 23rd, 2012 - 1:05 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, Aug 23 (IANS) An Assam legislator was arrested Thursday for his role in the ethnic violence in the state, police said. Pradip Brahma belongs to the Bodoland Peoples' ... Read more...
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Assam legislator arrested for role in ethnic violence
August 23rd, 2012 - 10:54 am ICT by IANS
Guwahati, Aug 23 (IANS) An Assam legislator was arrested Thursday for his role in the ethnic violence in the state, police said.Pradip Brahma is an MLA from the Bodoland Peoples' ... Read more...
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Karnataka minister to visit northeast, ask people to return
August 21st, 2012 - 7:13 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Aug 21 (IANS) Karnataka Home Minister R. Ashoka Tuesday said he will visit northeast states soon to assure the people there that the state was safe and the thousands ... Read more...
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MIM chief urges Muslims to help Assam riots victims
August 18th, 2012 - 2:50 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Aug 18 (IANS) Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi has called upon Muslims across India to help their brethren who were rendered homeless in recent Assam violence.Owaisi has ... Read more...
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Exodus of people from northeast continues from Bangalore (Lead)
August 17th, 2012 - 10:51 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Aug 17 (IANS) The exodus of people from northeast, including hundreds of students, from Bangalore continued Friday even as police arrested three youths for allegedly assaulting three Manipuri ... Read more...
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Nasim Ahmad Zaidi is new election commissioner
August 7th, 2012 - 5:54 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) Former civil aviation secretary Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi was Tuesday appointed an election commissioner by President Pranab Mukherjee."The president has appointed Syed Nasim Ahmad ... Read more...
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Asian poll panel association to increase information exchange
August 1st, 2012 - 12:52 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) The Association of Asian Election Authorities (AAEA), an multi-nation organisation working for open and transparent elections, will work towards establishing a global association and strengthening ... Read more...
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No fresh violence in Assam’s Bodo areas, toll 45
July 27th, 2012 - 7:21 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, July 27 (IANS) Normalcy is slowly returning in Assam's violence-hit Bodo areas, where week-long communal clashes claimed 45 lives, with no reports of any fresh incidents of violence being ... Read more...
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Alert in ten Assam districts after clashes
July 23rd, 2012 - 3:09 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, July 23 (IANS) An alert has been sounded in ten districts of Assam following communal violence in the Bodoland area, officials said Monday.
The situation was still tense in ... Read more...
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Assam toll rises to 12, army called in (Lead)
July 22nd, 2012 - 7:38 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, July 22 (IANS) The death toll in the communal violence in Assam's Bodoland area rose to 12 Sunday with police recovering three more bodies. The army has been pressed ... Read more...
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Assam toll is 12, curfew continues
July 22nd, 2012 - 4:48 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, July 22 (IANS) The death toll in the communal violence in Assam rose to 12 Sunday with police recovering three more bodies.The situation remains tense in lower Assam's Kokrajhar ... Read more...
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Why was Anderson released? Arjun Singh’s book tells all
July 3rd, 2012 - 7:24 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) A top bureaucrat in New Delhi and not then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had lobbied for bailing out Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson after his ... Read more...
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15 dead in Uttar Pradesh road mishap
June 25th, 2012 - 2:29 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, June 25 (IANS) Fifteen people were killed when the bus they were travelling in crashed into a tree in northern Uttar Pradesh, police said Monday.The mishap took place at ... Read more...
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Debar criminals from polls: Election Commissioner Brahma
May 5th, 2012 - 5:11 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, May 5 (IANS) Describing the participation of criminals in polls as one of the major problems the country is facing, Election Commissioner H.S. Brahma Saturday called upon the people ... Read more...
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Poll reforms conference begins in Odisha Saturday
May 4th, 2012 - 5:45 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, May 4 (IANS) At least 400 delegates from different walks of life are expected to attend a two-day national conference on electoral and political reforms beginning in Odisha capital ... Read more...
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Assam boat tragedy victims’ kin to get Rs.1.5 lakh each
May 1st, 2012 - 2:49 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, May 1 (IANS) The Assam government Tuesday announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs.1.5 lakh each to the next of kin of those who died in the boat tragedy in ... Read more...
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Assam’s Guinness bid: 40,885 saplings planted in an hour
April 29th, 2012 - 6:37 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, April 29 (IANS) In a bid to enter the Guinness World Records, 100 people Sunday planted 40,885 saplings within an hour near the Chirang Reserve Forest in lower ... Read more...
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Remo to play pied piper to young Goan voters
February 3rd, 2012 - 2:47 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Feb 3 (IANS) Be it rustic troubadours like Sharda Sinha from Bihar or rock stars like Remo Fernandes from Goa, the Election Commission of India (ECI) is appointing "electoral ... Read more...
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‘No politics behind order to cover Mayawati statues’
January 16th, 2012 - 8:24 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) The Election Commission (EC) Monday said its decision to order covering of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's statues and the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) poll ... Read more...
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Cover all statues of Mayawati, BSP symbol: Quraishi (Lead)
January 7th, 2012 - 9:20 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Jan 7 (IANS) The Election Commission Saturday ordered that all statues of Chief Minister Mayawati and her Bahujan Samaj Party poll symbol, the elephant, in Uttar Pradesh should ... Read more...
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Election commissioners to visit Lucknow Friday
January 5th, 2012 - 7:24 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi will visit Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow Friday to review poll preparedness in the state, which will see seven-phase voting ... Read more...
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Sonia Gandhi says polls in Goa within couple of months
December 17th, 2011 - 11:03 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Dec 17 (IANS) Goa will be going to the polls in a couple of months, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said Saturday.Gandhi's statement comes less than 24 hours after ... Read more...
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400 Portuguese citizens removed from Goa electoral roll
December 16th, 2011 - 9:30 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Dec 16 (IANS) Names of nearly 400 voters were deleted from Goa's electoral rolls because the individuals opted for Portuguese nationality, Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi said Friday."(A total ... Read more...
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Dates for assembly polls within next few days: Quraishi
December 16th, 2011 - 8:30 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Dec 16 (IANS) The dates for the assembly elections in Goa, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Manipur would be decided within the "next few days", Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. ... Read more...
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Tirumala Diary to set up India’s largest diary plant
December 14th, 2011 - 9:36 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Dec 14 (IANS) Tirumala Diary, one of south India's largest and fastest growing private dairies, plans to set up the country's largest integrated diary plant in Andhra Pradesh with ... Read more...
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Poll panel favours right to reject candidates
December 6th, 2011 - 11:34 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Dec 6 (IANS) The Election Commission favours the "right to reject" candidates to do away with criminals in India's electoral system, a poll panel official said Tuesday.
"The Election ... Read more...
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CPI-M gives poll panel ‘evidence’ against Trinamool
April 28th, 2011 - 6:30 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 28 (IANS) West Bengal minister Gautam Deb Thursday met the full bench of the Election Commission to submit "evidence" to substantiate the ruling Left's allegations that the Trinamool ... Read more...
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Congress’ sole ally in Assam threatens to quit
April 7th, 2011 - 6:14 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, April 7 (IANS) Assam's ruling Congress finds itself in trouble with its only ally, the Bodoland People's Front (BPF), threatening to sever ties and move over to the ... Read more...
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CEC to review poll preparedness in West Bengal
March 22nd, 2011 - 4:35 pm ICT by ANI
Kolkata, Mar 22 (ANI): A six-member team led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) S Y Quraishi will visit Kolkata today to review the preparedness of the upcoming Assembly polls in West Bengal. ... Read more...
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Poll panel to review preparations in West Bengal
March 21st, 2011 - 9:23 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 21 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi, along with senior poll panel officials, will arrive here Tuesday for talks with West Bengal officials and representatives of political ... Read more...
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Sixteen Indian boxers for junior Women’s World Championship
February 19th, 2011 - 3:07 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Sixteen junior and youth boxers will represent India in the Women's World Championship scheduled in Turkey in April.The April 21-May 1 event is the first of its ... Read more...
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Two sisters immolate themselves in Uttar Pradesh
December 18th, 2010 - 11:31 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Dec 18 (IANS) Fed up by the continuous tauntings of neighbours after their brother was named in a murder case, two sisters committed suicide by setting themselves on fire in Uttar ... Read more...
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Assam’s Bodo tribals ramp demand for separate state
November 20th, 2010 - 1:37 pm ICT by IANS
By Syed Zarir Hussain
Kokrajhar (Assam), Nov 20 (IANS) Assam may be heading for a fresh phase of turmoil with tribal Bodo political and militant groups joining hands to ramp the demand for ... Read more...
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Jatinga, where birds commit suicide? (With images)
November 4th, 2010 - 10:09 am ICT by IANS
By Jadav Kakoti
Haflong (Assam), Nov 4 (IANS) The tranquillity of Jatinga, a scenic village nestling among the Borail Hills range, is shattered every night by a disturbing occurrence - the 'mass suicide' ... Read more...
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