First phase of polls tomorrow
As many as 1,11,11,006 voters in seven districts will exercise their franchise in the first phase of local government elections on November 2. State Election Commissioner K. Sasidharan Nair told...
View ArticleBack to the grass roots
THE local government elections may not constitute the full measure of popular support for political parties but they nonetheless lend some insight into the situation on the ground. There was no...
View ArticleHow Narendra Modi's Bihar defeat will hit reforms agenda
In a stunning rebuke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling alliance, a group of parties opposed to his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) scored a decisive electoral victory in the northern Indian state...
View ArticlePreparations for counting completed
Preparations for the counting of votes on November 7 have been completed, District Collector V. Ratheesan, who is the chief electoral officer, said on Wednesday. The...
View ArticleSecond phase of local body polls begins in Kerala
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : The second phase of the local body polls in Kerala began this morning in the remaining seven districts, with ruling Congress-led UDF, opposition CPI(M)-led LDF and BJP locking...
View ArticleBihar’s Message to the Indian Right
India’s elections are always a massive enterprise. In the Bihar state elections, more than half the sixty-seven million eligible voters took to the ballot to reject the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and...
View ArticleVoting underway in first phase of Kerala civic body polls
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : The voting was underway in the first phase of the civic body polls in Kerala on Monday, with around 12 per cent voters exercising their franchise till 9 am, the office of the state...
View ArticlePM Attends Fifth Congress of Rural Communities in Jermuk (Government of the...
(Source: Government of the Republic of Armenia) The fifth annual congress of rural communities kicked off in Jermuk, attended by Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan. The forum aims at sustainable...
View ArticleChandy should quit: Kodiyeri
Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has asked Chief Minister Oommen Chandy to step down, taking responsibility for the setback of the United Democratic Front (UDF)...
View ArticleDeputy Minister Harsha de Silva says Sri Lanka's anti-corruption efforts are...
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka) Addressing the high level segment of the Conference of State Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption in...
View ArticleRival fronts look for clean sweep
: The rival fronts are bracing for a no-holds barred contest to the 13 municipalities in the district. The United Democratic Front (UDF) hopes to do a repeat of its sweep in the previous elections,...
View ArticleContenders confident about chances
Even as the curtains came down on the relatively peaceful public campaign for the local body elections on Tuesday evening, leaders of the three political formations exuded confidence that their...
View ArticleValmiki Bhavan will be built in Dakshina Kannada: Minister
Efforts will be made to construct Valmiki Bhavan in the district, said District In-Charge Minister B Ramanath Rai. Speaking at Valmiki Jayanti programme organised by the district administration at...
View ArticleA hut without a toilet serves as a house for Uttar Pradesh’s new Dalit minister
A board in the red and green colours of the Samajwadi Party with his name and contact number now stands among mango and bel trees in Chahalwa village of Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district, just in front...
View ArticleMinorities Commission reviews welfare schemes
Chairman of State Minorities Commission Rev. M. Prakash on Thursday reviewed the progress of the schemes being executed in the district for the welfare of minorities. Addressing the meeting, Rev....
View Article'Sandalwood conservation area developed at Veerakamba'
'Forest department to launch Chinnara Vanya Darshana' Principal Chief Conservator of Forests Vinay Lutra has said that the Forest Department has taken up sandalwood conservation in an area of 43...
View ArticleUDF, LDF move into top gear as election nears
With hardly ten days left for the election, battle cry for capturing Kochi Corporation has become well and truly sounded with rival fronts engaging each other in a no-holds-barred attack on Tuesday....
View ArticleLeft knocks Congress out in Kerala civic polls, BJP marches in
The BJP emerged as an electoral force in the Kerala local body elections, results for which were declared Saturday, even as the CPM-led Left Democratic Front won more than half of the 1,199 bodies. The...
View ArticleBJP-TDP combine gets an edge
The forthcoming by-election to the Warangal Lok Sabha constituency is likely to witness a keen contest between the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and the TDP-BJP combine. The seat fell vacant...
View ArticleFinally, plantation Tamils may get houses
The proposed construction of 4,000 houses for Tamils engaged in the plantation sector in Sri Lanka may finally see light at the end of the tunnel. Cleared by the Indian government nearly four years...
View ArticleThe opening of The Third Slovenian Rural Parliament; Minister Židan: "The...
(Source: Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment of the Republic of Slovenia) 7. 10. 2015 The opening of The Third Slovenian Rural Parliament; Minister Židan: 'The countryside is not only...
View ArticleCM seeks report from ministers on dist visits
BHUBANESWAR: As visit of ministers to different districts concluded on Saturday, the chief minister has asked them to submit reports on the outcome. With an aim to take the government to people, chief...
View ArticleAIADMK sees ‘Namakku Naame’ as a vain exercise
As DMK treasurer M.K. Stalin on his ‘Namakku Naame’ programme, never misses an opportunity to hit out at the AIADMK government, the Ministers and second-rung leaders have stepped up their retaliation...
View ArticleStalin’s ‘Namakku Naame,’ a vain exercise: AIADMK
As DMK treasurer M.K. Stalin on his ‘Namakku Naame’ programme, never misses an opportunity to hit out at the AIADMK government, the Ministers and second-rung leaders have stepped up their retaliation...
View ArticleOver 75% voter turnout in 1st phase of civic polls in Kerala
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An estimated 75 per cent of 1.11 crore voters exercised their franchise in the first phase of the keenly fought local body polls in Kerala, which comes ahead of the assembly polls...
View ArticleMinisters promise boost to Kannada
The 60th Rajyotsava Day celebrations were held in various parts of the region with cultural programmes and parades. The day was marked by jubilation, pomp and gaiety with thousands of enthusiastic...
View ArticleKerala local elections: Brisk polling despite drizzle
The politically significant 2015 local government elections in Kerala got underway on a brisk note this morning under gathering monsoon clouds and persistent drizzle with people turning out in fairly...
View ArticleColumn: Unlocking the lost wealth
Land, labour and capital are the three basic factors of production. Land continues to be the most shackled factor of our economy and has created a severe mismatch between supply and demand. This...
View ArticleNo more district zeros: Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
Stressing that he did not want a “zero district” in Odisha, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has urged state officials to implement a development plan for Nabarangpur — from filling administrative...
View Article75 per cent turnout in Kerala civic polls
The first phase of the crucial local body election in seven of 14 districts of Kerala held on Monday saw a 76.2 per cent voter turnout, according to figures released by the State Election Commission....
View ArticleKerala civic polls: UDF suffers setback, BJP makes inroads
Winning more than half of the 1199 three-tier local governing bodies, the CPI (M)-led Left Democratic Front has surged ahead in the Kerala local polls which were played against the backdrop of mix of...
View ArticleRSS election strategy yields results for BJP
The notable increase in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) tally in local bodies’ from 473 to 1,244 is being seen as an outcome of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) strategy to keep its majority...
View ArticleLDF has edge but UDF may spring a surprise
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In the absence of any discernable pre-poll trend - a fact confirmed by The Times of India-IPSOS survey that we published on Oct 29th - both UDF and LDF are equally optimistic about...
View ArticleSP bucks anti-incumbency, wins 26 of 60 zila panchayat seats in Bareilly
BAREILLY: The ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) bucked the anti-incumbency factor, with candidates backed by it winning 26 of the 60 zila panchayat seats, a considerable improvement from the 16 seats they...
View ArticleNo crisis in government after verdict: Chief Minister
The United Democratic Front (UDF) will respect the court verdict in the bar bribery case, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said. However, the verdict would not make any crisis in the government, he...
View Article'Date to submit applications under Section 94C extended'
The date extended till December: Minister Ramanath Rai District In-Charge Minister B Ramanath Rai, said that the State government has extended the last date for submitting applications seeking...
View ArticleUDF counts on traditional edge, LDF on dissension
While the United Democratic Front (UDF) treats the new Corporation of Kannur as its comfortable turf, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) places its confidence on a range of factors, including...
View ArticleKerala local governmnent polls to be closely watched
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 1 (IANS) The local government polls in Kerala beginning Monday will be closely watched as Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has declared that the elections would be a referendum on...
View ArticleLDF pins hopes on anti-incumbency
: The Left Democratic Front claimed that anti-incumbency factor will help them win the election to the Kochi Corporation. A release issued by the front here alleged that the factors...
View ArticleNo anti-incumbency wave in corporations
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Unlike other elections, anti-incumbency will not be a decisive factor in this local body polls as per the TOI-Ipsos survey. The survey has found that most voters are happy with...
View ArticleKerala: 76 per cent turnout in 1st phase
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Voters turned out in droves in the first phase of the local polls across seven districts, registering a tally of 76.20 percent in what is touted as the dress rehearsal for the...
View ArticleRevenue slams decision to return land to forest dept
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The decision of a state-level monitoring committee headed by chief secretary Jiji Thomson to return 71 acres to the forest department has not gone down well with revenue minister...
View ArticleMinister: no anti-incumbency factor
Revenue Minister Adoor Prakash has said that there is no anti-incumbency factor in the State and it was evident in all the elections held after the United Democratic Front (UDF) came to...
View ArticleFirst phase of civic polls commence in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram: The first phase of local body polls in seven districts in Kerala commenced this morning with heavy rains playing spoilsport in various parts of Thiruvananthapuram. The crucial...
View ArticleLG polls: Back to the grass roots
The local government elections may not constitute the full measure of popular support for political parties but they nonetheless lend some insight into the situation on the ground. There was no...
View ArticleProjects consume over 6k ha forest land in Maharashtra in 3 years
PUNE: By jumping into the fast lane to grow more industrialised and in the frenzy to construct highways and dams, Maharashtra has sacrificed close to 6,724 hectare forest land in the last three years,...
View ArticlePublic Lecture by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera on 'Politics and...
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka) Lecture by Hon. Mangala Samaraweera, MP Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka on Politics and Development in...
View ArticleAnti-Pepsi agitation gains momentum in Tirunelveli
After a lull, the anti-Coke and anti-Pepsi agitation in the district is once again gaining momentum with various political parties and social organisations joining ranks in the fight against the cola...
View ArticleBabu bribe case: Home minister passes the buck
Thiruvananthapuram: Following fresh evidence that vigilance and anti-corruption bureau (VACB) brass ignored statements of six bar owners confirming bribery allegations against excise minister K Babu,...
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