NEW DELHI, June 28 (Xinhua) -- India's former Parliament Speaker and the opposition parties' candidate for president Meira Kumar on Wednesday filed her nomination papers for the July 17 poll. Kumar was accompanied by the country's main opposition Congress party's chief Sonia Gandhi when she ...
It has again become Sonia Gandhi's responsibility to put together the broken pieces of opposition unity. She successfully performed this task in 2004, thereby paving the way for the Congress's return to power after nearly a decade.Read News Venkaiah Naidu as Vice President Candidate: Face and ...
Native America Calling: Trump job cuts hit Native education and sacred sites Haskell Indian Nations University lost nearly a quarter of its staff in President Donald Trump mass terminations. House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs meets for oversight hearing The House Subcommittee on Indian ...
Question: Who was the first woman president of the Indian National Congress? Indian National Congress: Most parliamentary systems around the world are multiparty legislatures, where many political parties vie for influence but one tends to be historically dominant. In India, that political party is ...
This is a 1921 photograph of the Bengal Legislative Council with the Governor of Bengal, the Earl of Ronaldshay (later Secretary of State for India and known as the Marquess of Zetland) at the centre. To his immediate right is Surendranath Roy, then President of the Council. Seated second ...
Previously Ms Vaghela served as Multicultural Advisor to the Labor Party-led Victorian Government and also served as the President of the Victorian chapter of Subcontinental Friends of Labor (SCFOL), The Victorian Legislative Council (VLC) is the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria. The lowe...
votes after it was sabotaged by some fellow Democrats with an anti-Hindu agenda who made an issue of his participation in the “Howdy Modi” rally in Houston in 2019 that featured India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former President Donald Trump, and legal election contributions from ...
Suresh Rajan has had a distinguished career in economics as well as having been a vigorous advocate for ethnic communities and people with disabilities. He served for several years as head of the Ethnic Communities Council of WA and is currently the President of the National Ethnic Disability Alli...
District Cricket Association: Rohan Jaitley, the president of the Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA), has emerged as the leading candidate to become the next Joint Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The position has been vacant since Devajit Saikia was pro...
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 2006, Kesha Ram got her start in politics when she introduced Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama at an event. Obama, then a senator, encouraged her to run and as she says, two years later they shared a ballot: he became the 44th President of the United States ...