New Delhi, Dec 8 : Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalswamy has said that the Lok Sabha elections are to be held on schedule in April-May next year, adding that there is no particular interest to advance the dates unless it is necessary.
The general elections in the country are held just before the end of the government’s tenure, he said.
Gopalaswamy today strongly advocated on the public to exert pressure to cleanse the political system from criminal elements.
London, Dec. 8 : Stephen Mills, a writer and film-maker who has spent over two decades watching tigers and other big cats in the wild, believes initiatives by the Indian government, and growing awareness by local people in tiger areas of the need to conserve the animals, offer new grounds for optimism in what has been a remorseless decline over the past 40 years.
There may now be as few as 4,000 tigers left in the wild from a world population estimated at 100,000 a century ago.
New Delhi, Dec 8 : Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today severely criticised politicizing the issue of terrorism.
She was speaking to the media even as the results of the assembly polls were trickling in.
According to initial reports, Congress was leading in Delhi, Rajasthan and Mizoram while Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was ahead in Madhya Pradesh and in Chhattisgarh.
The main opposition BJP during its election campaigning had slammed the Congress for failing to check terror incidences in the country.
London, Dec. 8 : The militants who killed Hindus, Christians and Jews in Mumbai have evidently seen the attack as a part of a struggle connecting India with Kashmir, America, Afghanistan and Britain, reports The Times.
The paper is of the view that the Mumbai outrage has raised the bar, again on the requirements for proof of Pakistan''s commitment to counter terrorism on or from its territory.
New Delhi - India's benchmark Sensex surged by over 4 per cent in trading on Monday, buoyed by the government's fiscal measures, including a
4-billion-dollar package to counter the downturn in the economy.
The 30-share-sensitive index of the Bombay Stock Exchange shot up by 370.96 points - an increase of 4.14 per cent - and was quoted at 9,336.16, at 3 pm (9.30 GMT), five hours after trading opened.
The broader 50-share Nifty index of the National Stock Exchange also rose by 3.91 per cent and was ruling at 2,820 levels.
Jitendranath Goswami, director of the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, who was also involved in the successful launch of Chandrayaan-1, revealed recently that by 2020, India would be able to send a manned mission to the moon, while by 2012 the second unmanned spacecraft would be ready.
Goswami informed, “If everything goes as per the plan, we will be ready to send a man to moon by 2020.”
New Delhi, Dec 8 : Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalswamy has said that the Lok Sabha elections are to be held on schedule in April-May next year, adding that there is no particular interest to advance the dates unless it is necessary.
London, Dec. 8 : Stephen Mills, a writer and film-maker who has spent over two decades watching tigers and other big cats in the wild, believes initiatives by the Indian government, and growing awareness by local people in tiger areas of the need to conserve the animals, offer new grounds for optimism in what has been a remorseless decline over the past 40 years.
New Delhi, Dec 8 : Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today severely criticised politicizing the issue of terrorism.
London, Dec. 8 : The militants who killed Hindus, Christians and Jews in Mumbai have evidently seen the attack as a part of a struggle connecting India with Kashmir, America, Afghanistan and Britain, reports The Times.
New Delhi - India's benchmark Sensex surged by over 4 per cent in trading on Monday, buoyed by the government's fiscal measures, including a 
Jitendranath Goswami, director of the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, who was also involved in the successful launch of Chandrayaan-1, revealed recently that by 2020, India would be able to send a manned mission to the moon, while by 2012 the second unmanned spacecraft would be ready. 
