Keep leaders’ kin out: Antony panel
The A.K. Antony Committee, set up by Congress president Sonia Gandhi to examine reasons for the party’s poor showing in the recent Assembly elections, has in its report disapproved of the practice of
Greece votes as anxious eurozone looks on
Greeks voted on Sunday in a tough-to-predict general election that threatened to turn the crisis-hit country's old political system on its head and bring eurozone turmoil back with a vengeance.
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85 pc Indian-Americans support Obama for second term: Survey
The Indian-American community has come out in strong support of US President Barack Obama, who kicked off his re-election campaign with two rallies in Ohio and Virginia, with an overwhelming 85 per ce
Post Antony report, Congress mends ways
The findings of Congress leader A.K. Antony's ‘post mortem’ report on the party's humiliating election rout in Goa in March already appears to have had an effect.
According to state Congress presiden
Mass detentions in Egypt after deadly Cairo clashes
Egypt's military ruler attended on Saturday an unprecedented public funeral for a soldier killed in clashes with protesters as the army detained 179 people over the violence in the run-up to landmark
British PM's party suffers heavy losses in mid-term polls
Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party took a bashing on Friday in mid-term local elections, capping a bad month for the government after Britain slid back into recession.
The main opposit
Socialist on track for win as French campaign closes
Socialist Francois Hollande was on track to defeat right-wing incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy as France saw the final day of campaigning on Friday before its presidential election run-off.
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Antony report cites number of reasons for UP poll debacle
Perception of corruption, price rise, wrong ticket distribution, controversial campaigning and poor organizational structure on the ground were main reasons for party's debacle in Uttar Pradesh Assemb
Republicans 'don't bother' for women: Obama
President Barack Obama took a jab at his Republican foes Friday over women's rights, saying they always wanted less regulation except when it comes to health issues, an issue that has pervaded the Whi
US vice president uses bin Laden to hammer Romney
US Vice President Joe Biden saluted his boss on Thursday as a man of steel who neutralised Osama bin Laden, as he reduced Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney to a foreign policy neophyte "mired