The Centre for Science and Environment, one of India’s foremost environmental groups, welcomed the Supreme Court’s move to ban controversial pesticide Endosulfan today. It also accused two Committees preferred by the Government, the O P Dubey committee and the C D Mayee committee, of manipulating ‘facts’ to favor continuance of the use of Endosulfan in […]
The state elections of 2011 has been remarkable for a variety of reasons — the fall of a 34-year old Communist government in West Bengal, the resounding signal sent by the Tamil Nadu electorate that corruption will not be condoned and the not-quite-there victory of the Congress in Kerala. While the first two have been […]
Indian IT majors like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL and Cognizant continued their fast ascent in the global IT industry, rising fast in the ranks of world’s top IT firms in 2010, with Cognizant the clear leader in growth. The biggest jump in rank among India’s top five IT firms was done by HCL Technologies — […]
The results of the Assembly elections in the states of Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Assam have started trickling in. The first lead has been announced in Badagara Assembly constituency in Calicut, where the UDF (Congress-Muslim League) is leading. There are a total of 140 seats in Kerala, 234 in TN, 294 in West […]
Congress led UDF or United Democratic Front had a slight set back as the early leads were coming out, but bounced back later on. Even as leads have been announced in nearly all the 140 seats, Congress led UDF seems to be set for a win with a slim majority of 10 seats. Latest resultsKerala […]
The exit pollsters have been proved right in West Bengal, with Mamata alliance sweeping the early leads from West Bengal. 108 out of the 135 leads are with Mamata Bannerjee’s Trinamool Congress party and others. Exit polls have indicated a 200+ tally for Mamata out of the total of 294 seats. The Left, led by […]
The Public Accounts Committee Chairman and BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi launched a scathing attack on the Congress Party for trying to sabotage the Public Accounts Committee — the Parliamentary Committee that examines the government’s expenditure and revenue. Joshi accused senior Congress ministers of plotting to disturb and over-turn the functioning of the Public Accounts […]
Kerala chief minister VS Achutanandan has won comfortably in the Assembly election at Malampuzha constituency in Palakad district of Kerala. He won by more than 17,000 votes, one of the highest majorities in the election. Achutanandan is leading a resurgent left alliance in Kerala, is ending up with around 66 or 67 seats out of […]
A new Gartner survey in the US, UK, China, Japan, Italy and India has exploded the myth that people find an LCD screen more tiresome than paper to read off. The survey came up with surprising results that indicate that reading on a tablet — such as the iPad — ranks the same for most […]
Congress and Muslim League led United Democratic Front or UDF is heading towards a slim majority in the Kerala State Assembly. With leads from all 140 seats announced, UDF is likely to end up with 71 seats — just 1 seat more than the required 70 seats. The Kerala results are highly unexpected, as the […]
Intel has opened more cards on its $7.7 billion acquisition of anti-virus vendor McAfee. The two firms on Tuesday announced a new business line that seeks to address the biggest concern the emerging cloud architecture — security. Under the cloud architecture, a company moves most of its storage and compute power to a distant location […]
Tamil Nadu assembly elections too have seen a neck and neck early lead position oscillating between the DMK and AIADMK alliances. The DMK alliance had 19 seats while Jayalalitha’s AIADM had 30 seats. Opinion pollsters have been divided about the fate of the state, with some predicting a Karunanidhi’s DMK while others favoring AIADMK.
Three exit poll surveys predict the results of Kerala, West Bengal, Assam and Tamil Nadu HEADLINES TODAY -ORG West Bengal Total seats — 294 Mamata+ — 210-220 Left+ — 65-70 Tamil Nadu Total seats — 234 DMK-Cong+ — 122 (115-130) AIDMK-BJP+ — 113 (105-120) Voteshare DMK-Cong+ — 48% AIDMK-BJP+ — 47% Kerala Total seats — […]
Congress led United Progressive Alliance are heading towards victories in 3 of the 4 major states whose results are being announced today. BJP ally, All Indian Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam or AIADMK, led by Jayalalitha, is likely to win the other big state — Tamil Nadu. In Tamil Nadu, Jayalalitha is likely to have an […]
The Congress alliance in Kerala got a large part of their votes from the Syrian and other Christian voters, according to Asianet CFORE post poll survey. The Christians, particularly the Syrian Christians, emerged as the most coherent and cogent voting force — directing a whopping 75% of their votes to Congress alliance. Christians make up […]
Tamil Nadu is emerging as the only piece of bad news for the Congress alliance as BJP ally, Jayalalitha led All Indian Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam (AIADMK) is heading towards a nearly assured win. After seeming neck and neck in very early trends, AIADMK has now notched up nearly double the seats of rival Karunanidhi’s […]
The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) will take Kerala, albeit with a slim majority of 5-10 seats, according to post poll surveys announced today. While the ASIANET – CFORE survey predicts around 75 seats (out of the total of 140) for Congress and Muslim League’s UDF, the Left front will have to be satisfied with […]
Oommen Chandy, Congress’ stalwart Christian leader, is likely to be the next chief minister as the UDF cruises to 72 seats in an assembly of 140 seats. Chandy, who was facing competition for the top job from Ramesh Chennithala — a Nair leader from Congress — has strengthened his claim to the top job by […]
The DMK-Congress combine is set to stage a comeback in Tamil Nadu, says the Headlines Today-ORG poll, while Asianet CFORE and CNN-IBN -Week surveys predicted a win for AIADMK. The post poll survey gives a 48% share of the votes to DMK while Jayalalitha’s AIDMK will get only 47%. In terms of seats, the poll […]
Kerala state assembly results have thrown up a photo finish with Congress-Muslim League UDF getting 71 seats while the Left parties notched up 68 seats. One constituency, Trithala, has added to the confusion by not being able to count even half the votes due to voting machine error. The constituency, which may go either way, […]
