Political News
The New Jersey State AFL-CIO
In Last week the Times discovered what we in the unions have known for a long time: The New Jersey State AFL-CIO's Labor Candidate School with more than 500 union members who are elected to office since 1997 is a unique and resounding success. Tomorrow, 53 Graduate School graduates will be in New Jersey to vote for local, county and state offices. They hope to join other alumni, including Steph... More »
Track local body election results
The National Informatics Centre (NIC) have prepared the event in collaboration with the Kerala State Election Commission to bring the results of the 2010 Kerala local bodies elections online. Counting of votes from local body elections held in two phases of Kerala has begun this morning. The website contains detailed information on Party wise result in the panchayat, block, district, municipal ... More »
Shiv Sena takes credit for Bigg Boss case
'The Shiv Sena has finally supported the request to ban the speakers top mosques, even though it took some provocation in order to reach this point, says NGO chief Sumaira Abdul Ali, had filed a complaint against the party for breach of the Bombay High Court has imposed noise levels in his Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park on Sunday. Mumbai Police registered two separate cases under the Environmen... More »
BJP (Bhajap) Covers Most of Seat in Election of Gujarat | BJP Wins in Rajkot,Jamnagar,Surat And Bhavnagar
The counting of votes polled in elections to six municipal corporations in Gujarat began on Tuesday amidst tight security arrangements and initial trends indicate that BJP is leading in all of them. The BJP is ahead in Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Vadodara, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar for which voting was held on Sunday.Congress gets very less seat in gujarat municipal corporation. In Ahmedab... More »
New Riyadh Hilton Unveiled
On October 11, 2010. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, leaders of the secular Iraqiya slate in Iraq spoke of Iran's political interference in the negotiations in Riyadh, a spokesman for the party said. Iraqiya won the March 7 Election in Iraq, with two seats, but fell well above the 163-seat majority to form a ruling government. Haidar Al-Mulla, a spokesman for Iraqiya, told Voices of Iraq news agency that... More »
Karnataka Assembly Speaker K. G. Bopaiah Disqualifies 16 Rebel MLAs
The Karnataka Assembly Speaker KG Bopaiah has disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs including 11 BJP MLAs and five independent MLAs before the word test is scheduled on Monday. It has dragged down the assembly strength of 224 to 208 members. Meanwhile, the ruling party strength come down to 106 from one hundred and seventeenth Congress and JDS, on the other hand, the strength of one hundred and first... More »
Row over Modi’s dream statue of Sardar Patel
The Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's announcement that the world's largest statue of Sardar Patel side of the Narmada dam has created a political controversy - which comes just days before Gujarat's civic bodies go to the polls. Congress has dashed a letter to the Election Commission, said the Code has been violated in the state. Modi had planned to build a 182 meter high statue of Sardar... More »
Indian Rupee against grow up 43 paise the U.S. dollar in early trade
Extending of the early gains against the U.S. dollar, the Indian rupee has risen by 43 Paise against the U.S. currency on the Interbank Foreign Exchange here on Wednesday on continued foreign capital in Danish shares and dollar selling by banks and exporters. It later moved further up to 44.25, but was quoted a little lower at 44.32/33, 1030 hours. Forex dealers said banks and exporters p... More »
SC lifts stay, Ayodhya Judgement 30 September
A court will decide Thursday whether Hindus or Muslims own a disputed religious site in Ayodhya, a conviction, many fear may trigger an outbreak of communal riots. The government has appealed for calm after the court in Uttar Pradesh state decides on ownership rather than the 16 century mosque, a flashpoint that flared in 1992, triggering some of India's worst riots that killed about 2,000 peop... More »
Mukesh Ambani tops India rich list for 3rd straight year
RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani has topped the Forbes magazine list of 100 richest Indians for the third year in-a-row, pipping billionaires like LN Mittal and Azim Premji with a net worth of $ 27 billion. Forbes research study, the combined wealth of India's 100 richest people rose to 300 billion dollars a year from U.S. $ 276 billion last year, driven by the growing economy and a rally in the stoc... More »
