Congress to seek disqualification of 12 MLAs who have joined TrinamoolLed by former chief minister Mukul Sangma, 12 out of the 17 Congress MLAs had on Thursday submitted a letter to the speaker, announcing the...
27 Nov, 2021, 07.12 AM IST
Hidden names, the new parlour gameTo understand the gravity of this discovery, one needs to reach out to other cases of 'sleeping' middle names creating ripples once woken u...
29 Oct, 2021, 12.57 AM IST
Chief Election Commissioner H S Brahma relinquishes CEC post, Nasim Zaidi to take over tomorrowChief Election Commissioner H S Brahma today relinquished the charge of the top post of the nation's poll panel.
18 Apr, 2015, 10.15 PM IST
DMK welcomes NDA's move to make bribery in polls cognisable offence"I generally welcome the amendments on behalf of DMK. However, the phrases seeming to give excess powers to police create doubt," DMK Presi...
02 Feb, 2015, 02.22 PM IST
Ex-CEC JM Lyngdoh bats for doing away with candidates fighting pollsJ M Lyngdoh has instead advocated the concept of proportional representation for political parties based on the percentage of votes they wi...
25 Jan, 2015, 10.12 AM IST
DUSU polls: Student leaders unhappy with Lyngdoh panel curbsThe DUSU elections are scheduled for September 12 and the students' wings of various political parties are fully geared in the run up to th...
31 Aug, 2014, 01.53 PM IST
Eminent personalities support Kejriwal's movementAAP leader Arvind Kejriwal got support from eminent persons like former CEC J M Lyngdoh and ex-Naval chief Admiral Ramdas.
29 Mar, 2013, 04.30 PM IST
- Congress set to return to power, three ex-Chief Minister's win
Three former CM's in Meghalaya emerged victorious in the Assembly election as the Congress is comfortably coasting towards a return to powe...
28 Feb, 2013, 04.38 PM IST
- Cash-for-vote scam: SC asks police to trace fund source
The Supreme Court asked the Delhi Police to trace the source of money used to allegedly bribe some parliamentarians ahead of a confidence v...
09 Sep, 2011, 06.22 PM IST
- SC raps Delhi Police for callous probe in cash-for-vote scam
The "callous" approach of Delhi Police in probing the 2008 'cash-for-vote scam' came under severe criticism today from SC which asked it wh...
15 Jul, 2011, 11.55 AM IST
- SC seeks status report on probe into 'cash-for-vote' scam
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Delhi Police to place before it the status report on the probe conducted by it in the "cash-for-...
07 Jul, 2011, 11.37 AM IST
- SC seeks status report on action taken on 'cash-for-vote' scam
The Supreme Court today sought a status report from the Union Government on the action taken against Parliamentarians for allegedly attempt...
02 May, 2011, 12.28 PM IST
- SC verdict tomorrow on petitions against Thomas' appointment
The Supreme Court will pronounce its verdict tomorrow on petitions challenging the appointment of former bureaucrat P J Thomas.
02 Mar, 2011, 08.41 PM IST
- Regularisation of 2G licences of defaulters challenged in SC
The govt's decision to regularise licences of the cos which failed to meet the deadline for the roll-out obligation of 2G spectrum, has bee...
30 Jan, 2011, 11.41 AM IST
- Brahma takes charge as Election Commissioner
Hari Shankar Brahma, a retired senior bureaucrat hailing from Assam, assumed charge as Election Commissioner.
25 Aug, 2010, 04.17 PM IST
- Nair, Murthy, Lyngdoh, Amjad Ali Khan given doctorate degrees
Former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair, chief mentor of Infosys N R Narayana Murthy, sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and former Chief Elec...
06 Nov, 2009, 09.39 PM IST
- D D Lapang sworn in as Meghalaya CM
D D Lapang was today sworn-in as the chief minister of Meghalaya.
13 May, 2009, 05.32 PM IST