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Lucknow, Sep 5(ANI): At least 12 primary schoolteachers suffered injuries during a demonstration to demand confirmation of their jobs and increments on Teachers’ Day.

The teachers alleged they were staging a peaceful protest when the police, for no fault of their own, baton-charged them.

“The teachers [...]

Bhopal, July 15 (ANI): Police baton charged hundreds of Congress party protesting workers who were trying to lay a siege on the State Legislative Assembly.

The protestors blamed the Madhya Pradesh government for being inefficient in fighting crime, corruption, and [...]

Jayapura (Indonesia), July 8 (DPA) Indonesians begin voting Wednesday in only the second direct presidential elections in the country’s history, with incumbent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is widely expected to win a second five-year term.
Voting commenced at 7 a.m. in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province, in the sprawling archipelago of more than 17,000 islands spanning three different [...]

Seoul, June 26 (ANI): Union Minister for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath has said that the Indian Government is making efforts to protect women from economic slow down and also enable them to uplift themselves.

Addressing the Plenary Session of 3rd East Asia Gender [...]

Abohar, May 29 (ANI): In its latest Punjabi Durbar programme the commentators have come up with the argument that Dalit leaders in India have been accepting the directives given to them from Brahmin leaders.

The programme has been attacking the integrity of Dalit leaders, who have [...]

Gangtok, May 20 (ANI): A twelve- member new Sikkim Cabinet takes oath of office here today.

Governor Balmiki Prasad Singh administered the oath of office and secrecy to Pawan Kumar Chamling and his Cabinet colleagues at Raj Bhavan.

Earlier, Chamling submitted resignation of his council of ministers to Singh on Tuesday and staked claim to form [...]

Gangtok, May 19 (ANI): Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling on Tuesday submitted the resignation of his council of ministers to Governor B P Singh.

The Governor accepted the resignation and asked him to continue in his post till the formation of the next government.

Singh invited Chamling to form the next government on the basis [...]

Gangtok, May 19 (ANI): Sikkim Chief Minister and the Sikkim Democratic Front leader Pawan Kumar Chamling will stake claim to form new government in the State on Tuesday after submitting the resignation of his council of ministers to Governor B. P. Singh.

The new SDF government led by Chamling will take oath on May 20 [...]

Islamabad, April 21 (IANS) Two people, including a legislative assembly deputy speaker, were shot dead in an attack late Monday in northern Pakistan, Geo TV reported.
According to the report, some unidentified gunmen opened fire on the car of Syed Asad Zaidi, the deputy speaker of Northern Areas Legislative Assembly (NALA), in Kashrot area of Gilgit, [...]

Mumbai, April 9 (IANS) Nominations for the last 10 of Maharashtra’s 48 Lok Sabha constituencies – six in Mumbai and four in neighbouring Thane that go to the polls April 30 in the third phase of elections – ended here Thursday.
Top political heavyweights who have filed nominations in the past few days include Ram Naik, [...]

Shillong, April 9 (ANI): Meghalaya Speaker B. M. Lanong on Thursday disqualified four MLAs who had withdrawn support to the Meghalaya Progressive Alliance (MPA) before the trust vote (March 17), which the Meghalaya Progressive Alliance (MPA) survived with the casting of vote by the Speaker.

Deputy Speaker and [...]

New Delhi, Mar 18 (ANI): The Government on Wednesday gave a formal nod for issuing notifications for the commencement of the general election process.

Talking to reporters here, Home Minister P Chidambaram said the notifications will be issued on March 23, 28 and April 2, 11 [...]

New Delhi, Mar 5 (ANI): For the first time, nearly 82 percent electors will use the Photo identity cards for polling in forthcoming General Elections.

Out of 543 Lok Sabha constituencies, 522 constituencies and the legislative constituencies in Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim and [...]

Lucknow, Mar. 4 (ANI): Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, some sitting MLAs and MLCs of Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Lok Dal and BJP have resigned from the state assembly and council to join the Bahujan Samaj Party.

SP MLAs Gauri Shanker from Malihabad and Dhani [...]

Lucknow, Mar. 2 (ANI): With the announcement of election dates, all the political parties are now in the election mode.

In Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati met BSP Members of Parliament and the Members of the Legislative Assembly to discuss political strategy for the [...]

New Delhi, Feb 15 (ANI): The notification for by-elections to 12 Legislative Council seats in Jammu and Kashmir is expected to be issued on Monday.

The elections in the valley are scheduled for March 7. The last date for the filing of nominations is February 24 and the nominations will be scrutinised on the February 25. [...]

Washington – US President Barack Obama on Saturday thanked Congress for passing a 787-billion-dollar economic stimulus bill, which he called “a major milestone on our road to recovery.”
In his weekly address he also warned that “this historic step won’t be the end of what we do to turn our economy around, but the beginning.”
The [...]

Amman – The Egyptian authorities have refused to allow a Jordanian parliamentary delegation to enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing, Deputy Speaker of the lower house of parliament Abdullah Jazi said Monday.
He said that the deputies, who were scheduled to leave to the beleaguered Palestinian territory on Monday, were asked by Cairo to [...]

Kochi, Jan 19 (ANI): Veteran CPI (M) leader E Balanandan died at a private hospital here on Monday morning. He was 84 and ailing for sometime.

He was admitted to a hospital following breathing problems last Friday.

E. Balanandan had been a member of the CPI (M)’s politburo since 1978. He initiated his political career [...]

Ranchi, Jan.11 (ANI): The cloud of political uncertainty is clearing from Jharkhand with Shibu Soren who had lost the assembly by elections,offered to resign paving the way for Champai Soren, another stalwart of the regional Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM).
Shibu Soren, who took over reigns of Jharkhand in August last year and, under a constitutional obligation, [...]