A delegation of senior National Democratic Alliance, including BJP leaders Lal Krishna Advani, Sushma Swaraj and JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav met the Prime Minister to request the recall of Karnataka governor HR Bhardwaj. The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured them that he will not take any ‘unconstitutional step’ irrespective of what is contained in the […]
The Centre for Science and Environment, one of India’s foremost environmental groups, welcomed the Supreme Court’s move to ban controversial pesticide Endosulfan today. It also accused two Committees preferred by the Government, the O P Dubey committee and the C D Mayee committee, of manipulating ‘facts’ to favor continuance of the use of Endosulfan in […]
The state elections of 2011 has been remarkable for a variety of reasons — the fall of a 34-year old Communist government in West Bengal, the resounding signal sent by the Tamil Nadu electorate that corruption will not be condoned and the not-quite-there victory of the Congress in Kerala. While the first two have been […]
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), India’s second biggest industry association, said that Mamata Bannerjee’s victory in Bengal may bring back West Bengal’s lost status as one of India’s industrial hubs. FICCI, which normally restrains itself from commenting on changing political fortunes, said it “strongly welcomes” the transition of power in […]
The next time you are prompted to enter your facebook or twitter password after clicking on some nice ad, make sure the location bar of the browser says ‘facebook.com’ or ‘twitter.com.’ Gone are the days of alluring emails asking you to part with your bank account details to claim your million dollar prize, cyber criminals […]
On the second day of his official tour of Afghanistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought to reassure the Afghani lawmakers that India did not want to ‘impose’ its views on the country, and was interested only in ‘friendship.’ In his brief address to the join session of the two houses of Afghani Parliament, Singh mentioned […]
Oommen Chandy is all set to be Kerala’s next chief minister as the Congress ‘High Command’ Sonia Gandhi is expected to have lent her weight to his candidature, even as his rival Ramesh Chennitala withdrew from the race. Senior Congress leaders Mohsina Kidwai and others are expected to touchdown in Trivandrum by 1 pm with […]
The 16 Karnataka MLA’s, who were disqualified by the Karnataka Speaker after they switched sides from BJP, have again lent their support to the party, according to BJP state unit. The BJP Karnataka unit has faxed their claim to the Karnataka Rajbhawan, claiming that they continue to have majority in the Assembly. The MLAs too […]
The Congress led UDF government will swear in on Wednesday in Kerala, UDF Convener PP Thankachan said. Thankachan also said that the selection of Oommen Chandy as the head of the coalition has been unanimously approved by the all the parties in the United Democratic Front. There are likely to be 21 Ministers — the […]
India’s ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has exempted the solar PV farms coming up in the country from having to seek environment clearance. India is in the midst of a massive program to increase its grid-connected solar power generation capacity from around 20 million watts at the end of the 2010 to 20,000 million […]
Intel has opened more cards on its $7.7 billion acquisition of anti-virus vendor McAfee. The two firms on Tuesday announced a new business line that seeks to address the biggest concern the emerging cloud architecture — security. Under the cloud architecture, a company moves most of its storage and compute power to a distant location […]
Congress led United Progressive Alliance are heading towards victories in 3 of the 4 major states whose results are being announced today. BJP ally, All Indian Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam or AIADMK, led by Jayalalitha, is likely to win the other big state — Tamil Nadu. In Tamil Nadu, Jayalalitha is likely to have an […]
Three exit poll surveys predict the results of Kerala, West Bengal, Assam and Tamil Nadu HEADLINES TODAY -ORG West Bengal Total seats — 294 Mamata+ — 210-220 Left+ — 65-70 Tamil Nadu Total seats — 234 DMK-Cong+ — 122 (115-130) AIDMK-BJP+ — 113 (105-120) Voteshare DMK-Cong+ — 48% AIDMK-BJP+ — 47% Kerala Total seats — […]
Tamil Nadu is emerging as the only piece of bad news for the Congress alliance as BJP ally, Jayalalitha led All Indian Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam (AIADMK) is heading towards a nearly assured win. After seeming neck and neck in very early trends, AIADMK has now notched up nearly double the seats of rival Karunanidhi’s […]
The Congress alliance in Kerala got a large part of their votes from the Syrian and other Christian voters, according to Asianet CFORE post poll survey. The Christians, particularly the Syrian Christians, emerged as the most coherent and cogent voting force — directing a whopping 75% of their votes to Congress alliance. Christians make up […]
Oommen Chandy, Congress’ stalwart Christian leader, is likely to be the next chief minister as the UDF cruises to 72 seats in an assembly of 140 seats. Chandy, who was facing competition for the top job from Ramesh Chennithala — a Nair leader from Congress — has strengthened his claim to the top job by […]
The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) will take Kerala, albeit with a slim majority of 5-10 seats, according to post poll surveys announced today. While the ASIANET – CFORE survey predicts around 75 seats (out of the total of 140) for Congress and Muslim League’s UDF, the Left front will have to be satisfied with […]
Kerala state assembly results have thrown up a photo finish with Congress-Muslim League UDF getting 71 seats while the Left parties notched up 68 seats. One constituency, Trithala, has added to the confusion by not being able to count even half the votes due to voting machine error. The constituency, which may go either way, […]
The DMK-Congress combine is set to stage a comeback in Tamil Nadu, says the Headlines Today-ORG poll, while Asianet CFORE and CNN-IBN -Week surveys predicted a win for AIADMK. The post poll survey gives a 48% share of the votes to DMK while Jayalalitha’s AIDMK will get only 47%. In terms of seats, the poll […]
The victory of the Congress in Kerala is likely to prove a crown of thorns for the party. Not only has the election been very poor for Congress as a party — subtracting from its moral leadership — but its allies have already indicated that they plan to drive a hard bargain. Two allies of […]
