When a Samajwadi Party leader rode on horseback at railway station
Lucknow: A Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA from the Pathardeva constituency in the Deorai district of Uttar Pradesh had a rather unusual welcome at the Deoria railway station. Shakir Ali, a third time MLA and a former SP minister mounted a horse at the railway station platform and was taken for a victory procession in the district by SP supporters. Shakir More...
Health Overhaul Is Backdrop as Obama Returns to Stump
BURLINGTON, Vt. — President Obama made no mention of this week’s closely watched Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of the 2010 health care overhaul when he delivered his standard stump speech at More...
Romney Skips G.O.P. Rivals in Anti-Obama Speech
APPLETON, Wis. — Four days before the Republican presidential primary here, Mitt Romney swept into Wisconsin, sounding general election themes and offering a forceful — and at times lyrical — speech laying More...
Primary Turnout Could Signal Trouble for G.O.P.
After presidential primaries or caucuses in 28 states, voters are sending a potentially troubling message to the Republican Party: We aren’t necessarily as excited about the campaign as you think. By some important More...
Delhi civic polls: Nominations of 51 BSP candidates rejected
Almost half of 114 BSP candidates cannot contest the upcoming municipal polls in Delhi as their nominations were rejected by the State Election Commission due to lack of proper documentation. Now, a total of 2,611 More...
Punjab Minister gets 5-year prison term
Though acquitted of murder charge, the special CBI court in Patiala on Friday convicted Punjab Minister and former president of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) Bibi Jagir Kaur of abducting, illegally More...
Rajya Sabha poll in Jharkhand countermanded
The Election Commission late on Friday countermanded the poll held for two Rajya Sabha seats from Jharkhand in view of incidents of “horse trading and use of money power to influence the voters (MLAs)”. The More...
Romney gets two big, but not high-impact, endorsements
Washington — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney picked up two more big endorsements this week, but neither appears likely to have much impact on sealing the deal for the GOP front-runner. Tea More...
Will shootings affect French election?
Re-election to the Elysée Palace was looking like mission impossible for President Nicolas Sarkozy: Trailing far behind the socialist candidate François Hollande in the polls for months, Sarkozy had only just More...
Newspaper controversy handiwork of ‘mischievous section’, says Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee has called the controversy over a newspaper ban in libraries a small matter and the handiwork of a ‘mischievous section’. But she has partially bowed to public pressure and included More...
