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Chandigarh, Sep 5 (ANI): The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday visited Haryana and met leaders of various political parties to review arrangements being made prior to the Haryana Assembly elections scheduled to be held on October 13.

Chief Election Commissioner [...]

Paris, Sep. 3 (ANI): Western envoys to Afghanistan have said that their respective governments should “be prepared for a run-off” in the Afghanistan presidential election if too many votes are ruled “irregular.”

If no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote, a run-off between the top [...]

New York, Aug.29 (ANI): Reports of widespread fraud in the second presidential elections in Afghanistan have introduced an unwanted strain in the relationship between Kabul and the United States.

Afghanistan’s Electoral Complaints Commission said Friday that it had received over 2,000 complaints of fraud or abuse in last week’s election.

Karzai’s biggest rival and former foreign [...]

New Delhi, May 14 (ANI): Facilitating the unenviable task of conducting the electoral process, the Indian Air Force (IAF) pressed into service two IL-76, four AN-32 transport aircraft, 25 medium-lift helicopters and four Chetak helicopters during the just concluded elections.

The helicopters drawn from 13 different IAF airbases across the country were provided to Assam, [...]

WASHINGTON: The US Senate on Monday cleared the last major obstacle to veteran diplomat Christopher Hill’s confirmation as US ambassador to Iraq,
voting to end debate on his embattled nomination.
The 73-17 vote set the stage for a final confirmation ballot as early as Tuesday or Wednesday, when Hill, the US representative to six-party talks on North [...]

Jakarta – Separatist rebels ambushed a police truck in Indonesia’s Papua province Wednesday, killing one officer and wounding five others, state media reported.
The officers were travelling in Jayawijaya district to pick up ballot boxes from last week’s elections when they were attacked, Papua police chief Bagus Eko Danto said, according to the Antara news agency.
One [...]

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ALGIERS (Reuters) – President Abdelaziz Bouteflika took 90.24 percent of the vote in a presidential election to win a third five-year term as leader of Algeria, an oil producer with a lingering Islamist insurgency.
An opposition party which had called for a boycott of the polls alleged fraud on an [...]

Ahmedabad, Apr 11 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday launched ‘referendum’ to seek people’s view about getting back the black money stashed by Indians in illegal accounts abroad.

The results of the two-day [...]

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Rome – Italian lawmakers rejected a bid Wednesday to triple the amount of time illegal immigrants can be detained in holding centres, in a rare defeat for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s ruling coalition.
In a narrow vote, opposition deputies – joined by some members of Berlusconi’s own conservative coalition – voted against extending the period [...]

Delhi Police Commissioner YS Dadwal on Thursday assured that “adequate security measures” for the upcoming elections are being taken, keeping in view the prevailing security scenario. “We have deployed Quick Reaction Teams and commandos.
Mobile patrolling across the city has also been intensified to keep a tight vigil before and during the Lok Sabha elections on [...]

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Even as a large number of people, especially young first-time voters, are looking forward to casting their ballot, there are quite a few who are content to use their voter card just as a proof of identity.
‘I got my voter I-card made because it works as an identity proof in [...]

London, Mar.11 (ANI): Two leading experts have said that they will argue at a debate at the forthcoming Economic and Social Research Council’s Festival of Social Science (March 6 to 15) that the blame for the rise of an anti-political [...]

London, Mar.6 (ANI): Workers at TATA-owned car giant Jaguar Land Rover have voted to accept a shorter working week and a one-year pay freeze to avoid compulsory job cuts.

Members of Unite and the GMB unions accepted the deal – 70 percent to 30 percent – after being urged to vote in favour by union officials.

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Islamabad, Feb.18 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said Pakistan is facing a difficult situation as terrorist groups want to impose their agenda across the country, thus posing a direct threat to democracy.

Speaking on the occasion of first anniversary of the general election here, Zardari urged his countrymen to unite and fight against the [...]

New Delhi, Jan.28 (ANI): The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that there was no question of amending the law to introduce a provision allowing a voter to cast a negative vote during elections.

Additional Solicitor General Amarendra Sharan, appearing before a Bench of Justices B. N. Aggrawal and G. S. Singhvi, opposed a plea [...]

Washington, Jan 8 (ANI): It has been revealed that voters for both the Oscars and the SAG awards need not vote for the actors according to the categories the studios have put them in.
The voters can, as per reports, elevate an actor from supporting to lead or send a lead down to supporting, as they [...]

Washington, Jan 8 (ANI): Hollywood stars Tom Cruise, Mark Wahlberg and Keanu Reeves are up for the Worst Actor dishonour at this year’’s Golden Raspberry Awards.
Cruise has been nominated for his role in ‘Valkyrie’, Wahlberg for ‘The Happening’ and Reeves for ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’.
Paris Hilton, Jessica Alba, Reese Witherspoon and Diane Keaton [...]

Washington – US President George W Bush has been a no-show on the campaign trail as the election season comes to a close, with Republicans worried that his unpopularity will hurt their chances with voters heading to the ballot box on Tuesday.
Bush has not made any public campaign appearances with Senator John McCain or any [...]