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November 7th, 2009 - 10:37 pm ICT by IANS
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Shimla, Nov 7 (IANS) There was moderate to heavy polling in the by-elections to Rohru and Jawali assembly constituencies in Himachal Pradesh Saturday, an official said. Polling was peaceful.
"After a sluggish ...
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November 7th, 2009 - 8:08 pm ICT by IANS
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Shimla, Nov 7 (IANS) Moderate to heavy polling was witnessed in the by-elections to Rohru and Jawali assembly constituencies in Himachal Pradesh Saturday, an official said.
"After a sluggish start, polling in ...
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November 7th, 2009 - 3:54 pm ICT by IANS
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Shimla, Nov 7 (IANS) Brisk voting was reported Saturday in the two Himachal Pradesh assembly constituencies of Jawali and Rohru, an election official said.
Till 1 p.m., around 35 percent of ...
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November 7th, 2009 - 10:00 am ICT by IANS
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Shimla, Nov 7 (IANS) Polling began in the two assembly constituencies of Rohru and Jawali in Himachal Pradesh Saturday, officials said.
Voters in both the constituencies - Rohru in Shimla district and ...
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November 6th, 2009 - 7:42 pm ICT by IANS
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Ranchi, Nov 6 (IANS) A former Maoist leader and the wife of an arrested rebel Friday joined the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and will be fielded by the party in the five-phase ...
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November 6th, 2009 - 2:01 pm ICT by IANS
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Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 6 (IANS) Kerala's ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) has never lost a by-election while in power and the Congress is defending its long-held seats - the results of the three ...
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November 5th, 2009 - 8:13 pm ICT by IANS
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Ranchi, Nov 5 (IANS) Hemlal Murmu, a former Lok Sabha MP of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) was arrested Thursday in connection with a 15-year-old case when he went to file his ...
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November 5th, 2009 - 7:18 pm ICT by IANS
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Shimla, Nov 5 (IANS) Campaigning for by-elections to two assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh ended at 5 p.m. Thursday. Polling will be held Saturday.
"The campaigning for the by-elections for Rohru and ...
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November 5th, 2009 - 4:54 pm ICT by ANI
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New Delhi, Nov 5 (ANI): The Campaigning for the Assembly by-elections in the states of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Kerala, Rajasthan, Assam, Himachal Pradesh and Chattisgarh ends today.
The polling will be held ...
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November 3rd, 2009 - 7:29 pm ICT by IANS
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By Dipankar De Sarkar
London, Nov 3 (IANS) British union leaders are to meet lawmakers from a key manufacturing belt Wednesday in what has been dubbed an 'MPs' summit' to discuss the fate ...
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November 3rd, 2009 - 6:30 pm ICT by IANS
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Kozhikode (Kerala), Nov 3 (IANS) Defence Minister A.K. Antony Tuesday said the central forces were sent to Kannur district ahead of assembly polls Nov 7 as the state government had failed to ...
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November 3rd, 2009 - 12:49 pm ICT by IANS
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Shimla, Nov 3 (IANS) With less than 56 hours left for the end of campaigning for the by-elections for two assembly constituencies, electioneering has finally picked up in Himachal Pradesh.
Though no ...
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November 2nd, 2009 - 11:17 pm ICT by IANS
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Kochi, Nov 2 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Monday said the central paramilitary forces will have to "sit in barracks" during Nov 7 by-elections in the state.
"If they have to walk ...
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November 2nd, 2009 - 12:12 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Nov 2 (ANI): Those who think that watching soap operas and reality TV shows is an easy way to kill time should now change their opinion, for such programmes act as ...
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October 30th, 2009 - 11:10 pm ICT by IANS
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Tegucigalpa/Washington, Oct 30 (DPA) The international community saluted Friday an agreement between ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and de facto leader Roberto Micheletti to solve the political crisis in the Central American ...
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October 30th, 2009 - 6:56 pm ICT by IANS
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Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 30 (IANS) With less than a week left for campaigning to end for Nov 7 by-polls in Kerala, gloves are off between the Congress and Communist-led fronts for the political ...
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October 30th, 2009 - 4:41 pm ICT by IANS
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Ranchi, Oct 30 (IANS) Eight MPs from Jharkhand, who lost their seats in the April-May 2009 general elections, will contest the coming assembly elections in the state.
The Congress has prepared a list ...
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October 25th, 2009 - 10:03 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Oct 25 (IANS) Faced with electoral reverses in its traditional strongholds of Kerala and West Bengal, the three-day central committee meeting of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Monday decided ...
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October 24th, 2009 - 8:56 pm ICT by IANS
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Chandigarh, Oct 24 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday demanded a judicial probe in the ongoing spat between Punjab Governor Gen. (retd) S.F. Rodrigues, who is also the administrator of ...
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October 24th, 2009 - 5:02 pm ICT by IANS
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By M.R. Narayan Swamy
Hua Hin (Thailand), Oct 24 (IANS) India and China Saturday pledged not to let differences derail bilateral ties as prime ministers Manmohan Singh and Wen Jiabao held a ...
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October 24th, 2009 - 11:24 am ICT by IANS
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Shimla, Oct 24 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) will not contest the Himachal Pradesh by-elections to two assembly seats next month, a party leader said Saturday.
"We have decided not ...
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October 23rd, 2009 - 8:39 pm ICT by ANI
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New Delhi, Oct 23 (ANI): The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday announced five-phase election schedule for the Jharkhand Assembly.
The poling will be held between November 27 to December 18.
At present ...
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October 23rd, 2009 - 6:23 pm ICT by IANS
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Shimla, Oct 23 (IANS) Jaswant Singh should return to the party, Manmohan Singh is the best prime minister, the RSS needed to take full charge of the BJP... actor and MP ...
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October 22nd, 2009 - 8:23 pm ICT by IANS
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Mumbai/Chandigarh/Itanagar, Oct 22 (IANS) The Congress came up trumps in the electoral sweepstakes Thursday retaining power in Maharashtra and Arunachal Pradesh but falling short of absolute majority in Haryana, leaving the ...
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October 21st, 2009 - 8:22 pm ICT by IANS
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Kannur (Kerala), Oct 21 (IANS) The voters' list for Kannur assembly by-poll Nov 7 was published Wednesday with the addition of over 9,000 names since April-May general elections. While the Congress called ...
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October 21st, 2009 - 8:17 pm ICT by IANS
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Kannur (Kerala), Oct 21 (IANS) The voters' list for Kannur assembly by-poll Nov 7 was published Wednesday with the addition of over 9,000 names since the April-May general elections. While the Congress ...
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October 21st, 2009 - 5:52 pm ICT by IANS
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By Dipankar De Sarkar
London, Oct 21 (IANS) Anti-racist campaigners prepared to stage a demonstration outside the television studios of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Thursday over its controversial plans to host ...
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October 20th, 2009 - 10:05 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) Alleging irregularities during the poll process in Kerala's Kannur assembly constituency, the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) Tuesday asked the Election Commission to remove all officials including ...
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October 20th, 2009 - 3:59 pm ICT by IANS
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Kannur (Kerala), Oct 20 (IANS) The Kannur District Collector V.K. Balakrishnan Tuesday submitted a report to the chief electoral officer on alleged violation of the poll code by union Minister for Overseas ...
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October 18th, 2009 - 6:25 pm ICT by ANI
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Kabul, Oct. 18 (ANI): French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has said that Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and his top challenger Abdullah Abdullah have agreed to "work together" for a possible runoff vote ...
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