Pappu Voted for Petrol Price Hike

Pappu Voted For Congress - Now Riding Cycle. Look at the man on left! He is the Pappu. One who voted to bring Congress Government in power.  During Election, Pappus voted a lot in mass. Pappu helped Congress to achieve as much vote as needed to make a strong government. But what does this strong government did -merely 1 month after coming in absolute power increased the petrol prices by Rs. 4. This is one of the...

Could be part of alternative govt: CPM

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has said that the biggest Left party, the CPM, could be part of an alternate government. “If we can play a determining role in making the economic and foreign policies of the new alternative government only then will we be a part of it,” said Bhattacharya. Till now, both Buddhadeb and party general secretary Prakash Karat had hinted at this. In the...

Praja Brings Mumbai’s Real Issues To Light In Their Latest Report

On the eve of the general elections, the NGO Praja launched its second white paper focusing on the issues faced in the six Mumbai constituencies. The white paper contains details of the problems and issues that citizens of Mumbai face on a day to day basis. The information is collected through Right-to-Information Act and is available on praja.org website. The report draws light on a variety of city related issues...

Citizen-Driven Election Monitoring Platform Allows Citizens to Report Irregularities in the Lok Sabha Elections

Vote Report India, a citizen initiative to bring transparency in the Indian election process, announced today the launch of its collaborative election monitoring platform for the 2009 Indian general elections at votereport.in. As India’s 714 million voters elect their 543 representatives, in the month long general elections to the 15th Lok Sabha, we are sure to see the usual controversies that surround general...

Recession-Elections can help India, ‘Indianness’ grow: Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

India shouldn’t bother about recession because a majority of its population hasn’t even seen the economic prosperity. Espousing these views, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev of Isha Foundation said that these elections mark the right time for a responsible and responsive leadership and administration to make India more powerful. And for Indians to fight the enemies within to unitedly create the much-desired common...

MapmyIndia’s elections website helps voters take informed decisions

MapmyIndia has just launched public service websitehttp://elections.mapmyindia.comto help voters in India make an informed choice on issues that matter to them during the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Combining the power of MapmyIndia’s detailed and highly accurate India maps with exhaustive data on constituencies, like population, literacy ratio, area amongst others and information on parties, candidates and...

US Congress members in Cuba talks

Raul Castro has held talks with members of Congress in his first face-to-face meeting with US politicians since he became president last year. State television showed Mr Castro talking to members of the delegation, which is in Havana to explore ways of improving US-Cuban relations. No details of what was said in their discussions were released. Barack Obama is expected to ease some of the travel and economic...

Yahoo! India launches special site for 2009 General Elections

Yahoo! India, the leading Internet company, announced the launch of a new site focused on providing users with up-to-date information on upcoming 2009 general elections. Users can access all the election updates on elections.yahoo.in As India gears up for its biggest parliamentary elections this summer, Yahoo! India’s elections site aims at creating an involved and an informed voter. With various political parties...

Third front will come to power: Brinda Karat

PTI reported that “The third front will come to power at the Centre in the forthcoming Parliament elections”, CPI(M) Politbureau member Brinda Karat said on Wednesday. Speaking at an election campaign meeting at Paravoor near here, she said the common minimum programme of the UPA government had made the life of common man miserable. On price rise, Ms. Brinda alleged that the Centre had not nothing to...