United Kingdom general election: Polling starts in. - India
Polls opened at around 50,000 polling stations across the UK. A total of 650 Westminster MPs will be elected, with about 50 million people registered to vote. As well as the general election, there are more. Prominent among the Indian-origin candidates are some long-serving MPs like Labours Keith Vaz, whose Leicester East seat looks pretty safe this time as well. His sister Valerie Vaz is defending her Walsall South seat. Historically, certain constituencies have a��.
The Economist explains: The fight over Indias land laws.
Congress (and many other parties with seats in the upper house) lost badly in Indias elections last year; they see a way back to relevance by painting Mr Modis party as anti-poor and anti-farmer.. With income tax on productive work and enterprise, vat, national insurance, capital gains tax etc. and the failure to capture land values for the national revenue can only over time fragment society, as is happening today in spite of... The Economist explains May 6th, 23:50.
Polling starts in UKs knife-edge general election
London: Polling on Thursday began in the UK in one of the closest general elections seen in decades with voters set to decide between the Conservatives of Prime Minister David Cameron, Ed Milibands Labour and other smaller parties.. A total of 650.
Sri Lankas new president sworn in
The opposition has promised to address international concerns over war crimes and normalise relations with western nations as well as India. Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, said he had spoken to Sirisena to congratulate him. The first foreign .
State elections in India - The Economist
So large was the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) victory in general elections in May 2014, led by Narendra Modi, that his party was widely expected to triumph again in state elections in Maharashtra and Haryana, held on October 15th. Results. elections. Marathi nationalism, the demand by some that the state be divided, concern about bad infrastructure in Indias financial capital and a series of corruption scandals might all have been decisive issues at another time.
India at LSE ��� Which electoral strategy will work in Indias.
In the run up to national elections, nearly 800 million eligible voters ��� a quarter of whom will be going to the polling booth for the first time ��� must weigh political, socio-demographic and economic variables to decide who to vote for.. 10 million volunteers across India by the end of January, a nomination-based process for accepting candidates (as opposed to other parties appointment-based system), and a concerted effort to raise funds from small local donors.
british arabs and the 6 may general and local elections
Now, in the general election to be held on 6 May, there is the very real prospect that for the first time ever a candidate of Arab origin will be elected as an MP in the British Parliament. He is 30-year-old Bassam. In the 2005 general election he was re-elected with a nearly 50 per cent share of the vote. The Liberal Democrats. By far the majority of British Muslims come from the Indian sub-continent countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. There are cultural and��.
Nonsense to say modern science existed in ancient Greece or India: Steven.
Many people believe that much of modern science already exists in ancient texts or teachings of their respective religions. In India, for example, the Hindu rightwing claims that many scientific and technological achievements of modern times like the.
Modi visits Jaffna, seeks respect for all citizens in Sri Lanka
JAFFNA: Making a historic visit to a region once ravaged by strife, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for equitable development and respect for all citizens in Sri Lanka, seen as an oblique reference to Tamils who had suffered during the war between.
Next The Economist explains: Why caste still matters in India
INDIAS general election will take place before May. The front-runner to be the next prime. The Economist explains. Why caste still matters in India. Feb 24th 2014, 23:50 by A.R. | DELHI. Timekeeper. Add this article to your reading list by clicking this button. Rolex values your time. Timekeeper by Rolex.. For example Mayawati, formerly chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state (population: over 200m) and just possibly a future prime minister, leads a Dalit party. In another northern state,��.
AIADMK candidate S Valarmathi leading in Srirangam
AIADMK candidate S Valarmathi was ahead of her nearest rival N Anand of the DMK by 92,352 votes at the end of the 22nd round of counting (out of 23 rounds). Valarmathi. AIADMK cadres began celebrations as Valarmathi established a clear lead over her.
Nepal avalanche toll reaches 39 | Leading Asian News in.
The death toll from snow blizzards in northern Nepal will probably climb to 50 as more than 100 people are still missing, Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal. At least 39. The authorities task has become more complicated because there are thousands of climbers in Nepal at this time of the year. Rescuers. Over 50 Indian-origin candidates in UK poll. Over 50 candidates of Indian origin are contesting in Thursdays British general election, the outcome of whi.
Labour fields 14 Indian origin candidates in UK elections
Votes from the Indian diaspora are expected to be a major swing factor in the upcoming general election. Almost 4 million voters - about one in 10 of the entire electorate in England and Wales - have been found to be born abroad. Indians are the.
Indias BJP names Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi as.
The main Indian opposition party has named a controversial Hindu nationalist as its candidate for general elections scheduled for next spring, setting up a contest between two very different visions of India in what are expected to be. The 2002 violence led to a de facto travel ban imposed on Modi by the UK, the US and some European nations, as well as the boycott by all but junior officials.. Texas Ranger Chuck Norris warns of government plot to take over state.
Modi eyes Indias century after landslide victory - The.
The Congress party, the national secular force that has run India for all but 13 years since independence, was set to crash to its worst ever result with fewer than 50 seats, less than a quarter of its tally in 2009.. ���The heat of the election is over and the people have given their verdict which says that we need to take India forward to fulfil the dreams of Indias 1.2 billion people,��� Modi said, according to AFP.. UK Prime Minister (@Number10gov) May 16, 2014 ���
Semifinal vs India Will be Australias World Cup final: Michael Clarke
Clarke said India were a transformed side under MS Dhoni and have got used to the Australian conditions having come Down Under in November last year. Clarke is backing his team to challenge India. He praised his bowlers for knocking over Pakistan for a .
Games behind Indian sports awards | Leading Asian News.
. for tennis star Somdev Devvarman. Somdevs supporters point to his remarkable return to the top 100 on the ATP rankings after a shoulder surgery kept him off the Tour for over a year.. Another undesirable feature of this years committee is the alleged conflict of interest of one of the members highlighted by a volatile Hockey India secretary general. The member in question was. Over 50 Indian-origin candidates in UK poll. Over 50 candidates of Indian origin are��.
TMC gets the jitters as Mukul Roy refuses to quit
They have got feedback that the former national secretary is in constant touch with disgruntled elements in the party. They fear he may field several independent candidates in the 93 municipalities that go to poll to queer Trinamools pitch with tacit.
2 SIMI militants killed in Telangana encounter had plans to kill PM
BHOPAL: Khandwa jailbreak fugitives Mohammad Ejazuddin and Mohammad Aslam, who were shot in an encounter in Nalagonda district of Telangana on Friday night, had formed a separate wing called Maal-e-Ganeemat within SIMI to fund their terror .
Delhi elections 2015 results: How Arvind Kejriwal retrieved a near impossible.
Slaughtered in last summers national polls, pummelled by the press, mocked by rivals and largely shunned by the public, the AAP mascot fashioned one of the most romantic comebacks in Indias new-millennium politics. AAP 67, BJP+ 3,. This time AAP.
Britains most racist election: the story of Smethwick, 50.
���It was full of Indians,��� Avtar Singh Jouhl, one-time general secretary of the Indian Workers Association (GB), told the Independent a few years ago, ���and they all wanted to shake his hand���.. In some areas there are more people of Bangladeshi origin than European. There are pockets. In 2001, he proudly tells me, he stood in the general election for Arthur Scargills Socialist Labour party in Warley and was the only one of its 114 candidates not to lose his deposit.
Gender violence, Narendra Modi and the Indian elections.
India stands at the brink of a dangerous cross roads, a general election is only a few weeks away and Narendra Modi the Prime Ministerial candidate of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) implicated in the massacres of.. While in the wake of the 2002 genocide and the clear evidence and documentation of Modis role in coordinating and sponsoring it, the UK, EU and US were compelled to distance themselves from Modi, however over the last two years the��.
Abortion bills collapse shows moderates clout
The partys extreme right wing ��� which in past years pushed the rank and file into a government shutdown and a near-breach of the debt limit ��� is losing relevance at the same time some of the moderates are regaining long-lost gall. And with the party.
Stop Being Indian-American!?!
Listen up, immigrants of Indian origin!. In a prepared statement obtained by POLITICO, which (at the time of this writing) was scheduled to be delivered at the conservative Henry Jackson Society in London, Jindal states: I do not believe in. And.
than 150 million vote so far on biggest polling day in Indian.
More than 150 million people have voted so far in India on Thursday in the biggest single days polling of the six-week-long general election due to end next month. The often bitter contest is being described locally as the most��.
A ten-point agenda for the new way forward for Pakistan
The first and the foremost is the recent judgement of the Sindh High Court rejecting his request for contesting National Assembly election for failing to fulfil the constitutional requirement of being righteous because he suspended the superior.
Tobacco Kills, No IFS and Butts- Did Congress and BJP Both Surrender to.
A huge controversy broke out after BJP MP and Head of Parliamentary Committee on Tobacco, Dilip Gandhi, stated that there was no Indian study to confirm that tobacco causes cancer. Shyam Charan Gupta, BJP MP and Beedi baron, said that if tobacco .
Indian election result: 2014 is Modis year as BJP secures.
Congress, who have been criticised for a lack of control over corruption and inflation, is looking at its worst-ever election result.. Indias anti-corruption champion Arvind Kejriwal failed to win a seat in the countrys general election, at which his new party made its national debut, writes AFP... Ideology and cadre is what makes BJP win, he told the Guardian at a press conference at the Delhi headquarters of the organisation, which has been banned three times.
AAP draws flak, ridicule from rival parties as Yogendra Yadav, Prashant.
Amid chaos and high drama, a resolution to remove the two dissidents from the powerful panel was passed immediately after party Chief Arvind Kejriwal left the National Council following his hour-long speech in which he asked over 300 members present to .
Is Indias New Prime Minister a Neo-fascist or Reformer
By the time the results are announced on 16 May, 815 million voters���more than 12 times the population of the UK, or over two and a half times the population of the US���will have cast their vote at one of 900,000 polling stations.. Instead, all three candidates for prime minister have considerable flaws, and it is perhaps partly this that has resulted in the unusual bitterness of this election, polarising opinion and bringing an unprecedented acrimony to the national��.
FAA downgrade shows systemic flaws in Indias aviation.
In the 50 years from FY1953 to FY2003 the largest number of annual passengers that Indias domestic market added in a five year period was 3.6 million. However, FY2004 marked a turning point in Indian aviation as��.
Britains Labour party tries to win minority votes ahead of polls
On Tuesday, the party will announce a bunch of promises especially for the Indian and minority ethnic community in Britain before the general election on May 7 including reducing discrimination in getting jobs in UK. Among the. Labour has fielded 45.