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Joe Biden formally clinches Democratic presidential nomination
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 6 (ANI): Former vice president Joe Biden clinched the Democratic presidential nomination on Friday (local time), officially setting the stage for a contentious general election fight with President Donald Trump this November.
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Indian Democracy: The Envy of Islamic Supremacist Pakistan
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Glasgow [Scotland], May 18 (ANI): The constitution of Pakistan bars anyone who is not a Muslim from becoming the head of the state. Ahmedi Muslims were declared non-Muslims by a parliamentary amendment in the constitution in 1974 and are not allowed to participate in the general elections un
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Coronavirus: Sri Lanka EC says decision to postpone elections not taken
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Mar 17 (ANI): Chairman of the National Election Commission Mahinda Deshapriya has stated that no decision has been taken to postpone the general election due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Netanyahu claims victory in Israel's general election
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], Mar 4 (Xinhua/ANI): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party has gained 36 seats in Monday's parliamentary elections, becoming once again the largest party, the Central Elections Committee said on Tuesday (local time) after 97 per cent of votes had been coun
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Sri Lankan President dissolves Parliament, snap election on April 25
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Mar 03 (ANI): Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday dissolved the country's Parliament as the election commission announced a general election for April 25.
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Sri Lanka's opposition leader Sajith Premadasa to contest parliamentary po
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Feb 28 (ANI): Sri Lanka's opposition leader Sajith Premadasa has decided to contest the upcoming general elections in the country.
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SC grants EC four weeks' time to file reply on plea seeking voting details
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 24 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday granted four weeks' time to the Election Commission of India to file its reply on a batch of petitions seeking directions to publish details of voter turnout and final vote count on its website once general and assembly election re
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List candidates' criminal records on websites, social media: SC directs po
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 13 (ANI): Taking note of the "alarming increase" in the number of candidates having criminal antecedents in the last four general elections, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed all the political parties to upload on their websites within 48 hours the details of crim
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New Zealand to hold general election on September 19
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Wellington [New Zealand], Jan 28 (Sputnik/ANI): New Zealand's general election will be held on September 19, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Tuesday.
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Erdogan harassing pro-Kurdish party members to gain Turkish nationalists'
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Virginia [USA], Jan 17 (ANI): The major gains made by pro-Kurdish left-wing People's Democratic Party (HDP) in the 2014 presidential polls and 2015 general election of Turkey made President Recep Tayyip Erdogan use his power by punishing his Kurdish opponents through the judicial route to se
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Faith in democracy increases with every general election, says Om Birla
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 16 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said on Thursday that "increasing vote percentages in every general election is a testimony of people's increasing faith in Indian democracy".
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Voting begins in Taiwan's 2020 general election
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], Jan 11 (ANI): Voters in Taiwan are lining up outside polling stations to elect next president and parliament members of the nation whose politics is dominated by its relationship with China.
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