Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Washington, Jan. 27 (ANI): Ahead of Barack Obama''s State of the Union address tonight, most Americans want the US President to devote more time on the gloomy economy, a new poll has found.
According to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC survey, 51 percent of Americans believe that Obama has paid "too ...
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Srinagar, Apr 27 (ANI): People's Democratic Party (PDP) supporters took to streets on Monday to protest against the cancellation of an Election Commission (EC) notification for holding bye-polls in the ...
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Shillong, April 9 (ANI): Meghalaya Speaker B. M. Lanong on Thursday disqualified four MLAs who had withdrawn support to the Meghalaya Progressive Alliance (MPA) before the trust vote (March 17), which the Meghalaya Progressive Alliance (MPA) survived with the casting of vote by ...
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Panaji, Mar 27 (ANI): Shiv Sena on Friday declared the names of candidates in Goa for upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Shiv Sena Goa unit chief Upendra Gaonkar will contest from the North Goa seat, while Namdeo Naik will try his luck from ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Shillong (Meghalaya), Mar 12 (ANI): The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)-led Meghalaya Progressive Alliance (MPA) government lost another minister on Thursday as Chief Minister Donkupar Roy declared that he would seek a vote of confidence in the state assembly on ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
London, March 9 (ANI): The Vatican's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, has published a long editorial saying that the washing machine did more to liberate women than the contraceptive Pill.
The editorial marking International Women's Day said that washing machines had freed generations of women from the drudgery of housework.
"The washing ...
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
Jammu, Mar 1 (ANI): Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed demanded the revocation of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir.
Talking to reporters here on Saturday, Sayeed said, "Now time has come when there is peace, when there is decline in militancy, ...
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Srinagar/Jammu, Feb 28 (ANI): Violent protests over the killing of two Muslim youths, allegedly by the army, continue in Kashmir.
Security personnel had to fire tear gas shells to control an agitating mob here on Friday. rotesting against the death of Shabir Ahmad Sheikh, ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Washington, Feb 23 (ANI): A study has revealed that Barack Obama played a big role in changing the way the whites thought about African-Americans, even before he was elected US President.
The researcher carried out by Florida State University Psychology Professor E. Ashby Plant and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Patricia Devine ...
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