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NEW DELHI | A populist firebrand swept India's Communist Party out of power Friday in West Bengal, a state that Communists had governed for more than 30 years, according to India's Election Commission.
Mamata Banerjee, leader of the Trinamool Congress Party and an ally of the governing Congress Party, won more than 60 percent of the seats in West Bengal's state legislature and is all but certain to take the powerful state post of chief minister.
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INTRODUCTION . Free and fair elections are some of the essential qualities of a mature de... Chief Election Officers in New Delhi, India, Organized by the Commonwealth Secretariat in Co-o...
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... established the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1946 to promote nuclear energy research f...'s action could also cost it its re-election, especially since the opposition party, BJP, was i...
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is proposing regulations to implement certain statutory provisions enacted by Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Specifically, in accordance with section 727 of the Dodd-Frank Act, the Commission is proposing regulations that would define the criteria for grouping swaps into separate swap categories and would establish methodologies for setting appropriate minimum block sizes for each swap category. In addition, the Commission is proposing further measures under the Commission's regulations to prevent the public disclosure of the identities, business transactions and market positions of swap market participants.
...Proposed Sec. 43.6(g) Notification of Election. 4. Proposed Sec. 43.7 Delegation of Authorit... with underlying shares or indices in India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand. ...
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With its profusion of languages, ethnic groups and regional diversities, with its unique caste system, with its contrast between information technology and industry billionaires and the nearly 300 million people who live below the poverty line, with its mixture of Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent philosophy and outbreaks of savage communal violence, and with its success as a parliamentary democracy despite having 400 million people who cannot read or write, India remains a bewilderingly complex country. A powerful moral leader as well as a wily politician, Gandhi wanted Indians to be proud of their past, to wear Indian rather than foreign dress, to challenge their colonial overlords through peaceful protest and noncooperation and not through violence, and to eliminate discrimination against...
... and Muslims should vote separately in elections. Possibly a product of the policy of "divide and r... goes to an independent election commission, composed of senior civil servants. With absolute ...
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By Somini Sengupta
The New York Times
NEW DELHI. The governing Indian National Congress-led coalition sailed to a surpri... in India's grueling parliamentary elections. The win vaulted a soft-spoken economic reformer n...By early evening, the Election Commission of India projected that the Congress-led alliance ...
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According to a consensus taken from a group of prominent n economists, including those representing the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, J.P. Morgan and S&P Asia Pacific, the n economy is likely to expand by 7% during the next financial year, from April 2009-March 2010. The growth is expected as a result of the n government's stimulus package and monetary easing. Greater stimulus and populist spending will translate into greater growth for the construction and building materials sectors, and companies in those sectors are gearing up for the impending boom.
...The fact that 2009 is also a federal election year is a plus for the economy since election-rela...The Election Commission of India in early March announced the dates of the...
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... education-rights movement and focuses on India as a case study. Lastly, this Article analyzes a r...(400) The National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Tribes" 1996-1997 and 199...But cf. Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm'n, 130 S. Ct. 876, 892 (2010) ("It is not jud...
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... accountability, including regular election to elect local councils and chairmen or mayors, us... traditions--including Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka--althoug... Committee led by the Deputy Commissioner (the District-level government executive) and comp...
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...The Election Commission used more than a million electronic voting machine...