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'None Of The Above' button ensures secrecy

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Chennai: The Supreme Court panel, comprising judges P. Sada­sivam, Ranjana Prakash Desai and Ranjan Gogoi, on Friday ordered  the Election Commission of India to provide the 'None Of The Above' (NOTA

Review plea in SC on debarring arrested persons from contesting polls

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New Delhi: Petitions seeking review of two land mark judgements of Supreme Court disqualifying MPs and MLAs on being convicted and debarring arrested persons from contesting polls have been filed in

Don't poke nose into politics: Uddhav to Amartya Sen

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Mumbai: Shiv Sena on Friday deprecated BJP MP Chandan Mitra's demand for stripping Nobel laureate Amartya Sen of Bharat Ratna over his comments on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi but advised the

Flood of copters, a waste

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Hyderabad: The state government has wasted a lot of money thanks to politics over airlifting passengers during calamities.
With Telugu Desam chief N. Chandrababu Naidu making a big issue out of airli

Whose photo will Siddara­maiah hang in his office in 2014?

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Scoring political points over portraits! Now one would imagine that an august assembly of men and women would expend their energies, discussing the many ways and means they can transform the lives of

Digvijay asks Modi not to play politics on Food Security Bill

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Monday asked Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to stop playing politics over the UPA government’s food security programme.

Chandrababu Naidu asks party men to be quiet

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Hyderabad: Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu seems to have instructed the party leaders on Tuesday not to react to the reports on bifurcation of the state.
He said the Congress was trying t

BJP men attack Samaikyandhra cadre; 4 hurt

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Nellore: Four Samaikyandhra JAC members sustained bruises when some BJP cadres attacked them near Town Hall here on Friday evening.
The incident took place when the JAC activists tried to submit a re

Govt mulling changes in RTI Act to keep political parties out of ambit

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New Delhi: Government is contemplating changes in the Right to Information Act to keep political parties out of its ambit, a move which will overturn an order of the Central Information Commission

BJP envisions history of riots as a poll tool, eyes Muslim vote bank

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New Delhi: In a major bid to prevent the consolidation of the minority vote bank in the Congress’ favour, the BJP will shortly release a ‘Vision Document to Empower Minorities’, the first document

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