Posts Tagged ‘ general elections ’

The World This Week – 19 April 2009

April 20, 2009
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The World This Week – 19 April 2009

After months of exciting drama, India finally went to vote in the first phase of the 2009 General Elections. The voting for 124 Lok Sabha seats took place relatively peacefully with a voter turnout of about 60%, apart from Naxal attacks in which 17 people were killed. Earlier the Supreme Court snubbed the UP...

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Navin Chawla and the Great Indian Political Circus

February 4, 2009
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Navin Chawla and the Great Indian Political Circus

It is election season. Congress is in power, and BJP in the opposition. The games have begun. Navin Chawla, a 1969 cadre IAS officer born three years before Gandhi died, is at the center of the latest controversy. The chain of events kicked off a few years back is finally reaching the end game....

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