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May 21 2009
Meera Sanyal, a senior banker, was supposed to be the new face of Indian politics. The 47-year-old chief executive rose to the forefront of a political movement born in the angry aftermath of the terrorist attack on India’s financial capital last...
May 20 2009
A record 59 women MPs have been elected to the new Lok Sabha - the highest since independence, and 17 of them are less than 40 years. According to PRS Legislative Research, an organisation that aims to strengthen legislative debate, among the 59 women...
May 20 2009
From Silicon valley to management planet youths dominates everywhere in 21st century. However, their presence in politics was meager in Indian politics. But the general elections 2009 have tremendously changed the panorama as 79 youths have been elected...
May 16 2009
In the course of the election campaign, several leaders from L.K. Advani and Yashwant Sinha of the Bharatiya Janata Party to Prakash Karat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and even Pranab Mukherji of the Congress have spoken of...
May 15 2009
Candidates and parties spent $3 billion on everything, including transportation, advertising, celebrity endorsements and cash bribes over the course of the campaign, according to economists and political analysts. In comparison, the last United States...
May 15 2009
NEW DELHI: The Left parties have strongly reacted to reports that U.S. Charge d’Affaires Peter Burleigh advised a senior political leader to keep the Communists at bay while forming the next government. The U.S. Embassy has, however, denied the...
May 14 2009
There are considerable percentage of candidates in Tamil Nadu that have criminal charges, according to a report released by Tamil Nadu Election Watch (TNEW), a voluntary organization that screened the profiles of the candidates contesting the 15th Lok...
May 14 2009
Sporadic political clashes left two persons injured in the final phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal on Wednesday even as people turned out in large numbers to vote in 11 constituencies. Polling was deferred in some areas because of...
May 12 2009
It is too early to comment on who is going to support whom and, at present efforts are on to form a government without the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said here on Monday. The Chief...
May 12 2009
Thousands of billboards and posters of West Bengal’s opposition leader, Mamata Banerjee, line the streets of Calcutta. The poster blitzkrieg by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and its leader could represent the waning powers of West Bengal’s...