Hindu Nationalists Win Elections

India's main Hindu nationalist party swept to an impressive election victory Sunday in the western state of Gujarat after a bitter campaign fought in the shadow of deadly 2002 anti-Muslim riots that still scar the state.

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After the Mumbai Blasts, the whole life in India began to revolve around this horrible incident. One can find the after shocks of this quake even after so many months. Certainly it was the worst episode in the Indian history of terrorism.

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After the Mumbai Blasts, the whole life in India began to revolve around this horrible incident. One can find the after shocks of this quake even after so many months. Certainly it was the worst episode in the Indian history of terrorism.

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Sangli (Maharashtra): Sangli and Miraj towns in Maharashtra Monday remained under curfew following communal disturbances while arson and violence erupted in Ichalkaranji town ahead of the assembly elections as the opposition blamed the state government for the situation.

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Eyesores or cynosures, they are for keeps. The saffron robed Muslim leaders are now an inseparable part of the Hindutava campaigner Bharatiya Janata Party.

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Monday sees the publication of a biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah which challenges the way we in India have seen the founder of Pakistan. It reassess Nehru's role in Partition, it sheds fresh light on the relationship between the Mahatma Gandhi and Jinnah.

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NEW DELHI: The Opposition on Monday criticised the Union budget in Parliament saying that it adopted the approach of the 1960s and was rhetorical not substantive...

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As elections progress, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Congress party are in more trouble over the Indo-U.S.

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Indians will from Thursday begin heading to the polls in a month-long election for a new government. The Congress party is standing on the record of the government it has led since 2004.

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Elections in India, the world's second-most populous country, evoke descriptions like 'spectacle' or 'carnival,' in part due to the overwhelming numbers that participate in the process.

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Actor-MP Vinod Khanna's each question in parliament has cost a whopping 13 million of public money. This has been revealed by a civil watchdog, Punjab Election Watch (PEW), in information compiled about all 13 members of parliament from Punjab.

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Hong Kong, China - A general election in any country provides an opportunity for debate on the whole range of topics that concern the people.

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NEW DELHI -- A new class of Indian politicians wants to free its country of rampant corruption, bribery and red tape. But as India gears up for elections starting next week, the new entrants are facing an early hurdle: fraud in the election process itself.

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India general election juggernaut is on the move with polling, announced yesterday, on five days from April 16 to May 13, and vote counting on Saturday May 16. So India should have a new government by the middle-end of May.

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India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Saturday ahead of parliamentary elections in the country that the national government will standardize on open standards and open source software if the party is elected to power.

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A week after the Mumbai attacks, the Congress party, which heads the ruling coalition of India, surprised everyone by winning three out of five states, including New Delhi, in partial state elections.

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A senior official of Indian capital Delhi died after he suffered severe head injuries while trying to escape from a group of aggressive monkeys, officials said.

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The roadside pavement has become a happy home for Prafulla Chiplunkar, the great grandson of renowned freedom fighter Vir Savarkar, who advocated the ideology of a Hindu nation.

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