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• North East BNP Hard at Work on Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 576
  British National Party activists in the North East of England did not take any time off over the festive period and engaged in leaflet distributions on Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve, our correspondents report. South Tyneside BNP activists had a team of leaflet distributors out all morning on Boxing Day in the ...
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• I keep informing Yeddyurappa on various issues: Former Karnataka minister

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  By Arun AnandNew Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) Former Karnataka minister Shobha Karandlaje who had to quit the ministry following a revolt in the state’s first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, says the political battle which led to her resignation has not affected her political fortunes as she remains in close touch ...
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• C.P. Singh to become Jharkhand assembly speaker

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Ranchi, Jan 4 (IANS) Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator C.P. Singh is set to become the next speaker of the Jharkhand assembly as both the ruling and the opposition parties Monday proposed his name for the post.Six sets of nomination papers were filed in favour of C.P. Singh. His name was proposed by the [...]
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• Octogenarian freedom fighter dies in Orissa

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Bhubaneswar, Jan 4 (IANS) Rajkishore Nayak, a freedom fighter and Gandhian leader who was elected to the Orissa legislative assembly twice, died here Monday in a hospital after prolonged illness, a family member said. He was 86.Nayak was elected to the state legislative assembly from Patakura assembly constituency in ...
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• BJP-Congress straight fight in Gujarat by-poll

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Gandhinagar, Jan 2 (IANS) A straight fight between traditional rivals the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress is on the cards in the Jan 20 by-election in Gujarat’s Chotila assembly constituency.While the Congress has fielded Nirantbehn Dhoriya, the BJP has put up Bharat Khorani, the son of the sitting ...
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• Chautala son to contest Haryana by-election

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Chandigarh, Jan 2 (IANS) Former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala’s Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) has fielded his son Abhay Singh Chautala for the Jan 20 by-election in Ellenabad assembly constituency.Abhay is the younger son of the INLD chief. Om Prakash Chautala and his elder son Ajay Singh Chautala are ...
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• Farhan Azmi being fielded for Bhivandi East bypoll

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Mumbai, Jan 1 (IANS) The Republican Left Democratic Front has fielded Farhan Azmi, son of Samajwadi Party (SP) Maharashtra unit president Abu Asim Azmi as its candidate for the assembly by-election from Bhivandi town in neighbouring Thane district, anoffice-bearer said Friday.Accompanied by several thousand ...
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• Another son rises in PMK

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Chennai, Jan 1 (IANS) Once again the son bug has bitten the Tamil Nadu political party Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK).After Anbumani Ramadoss, the son of PMK founder S. Ramadoss, it is the turn of PMK party president G.K. Mani’s son Tamizhkumaran to aim for a public position. The party has selected Tamizhkumaran as its ...
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• Greed behind West Cumbria flood disaster

  
  Martin Wingfield — Authority: 99
  IT WAS five years ago that United Utilities, which owns the Thirlmere reservoir (above) , was first asked to lower the water level during the Autumn so that there was additional capacity to hold the winter rains coming off the Lake District Fells. The private company refused to do so, claiming that its priority was ...
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• Shibu Soren - popular politician despite corruption, murder taints (Profile)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  By Nityanand ShuklaRanchi, Dec 30 (IANS) He is a politician to the core, known as a champion of the poor and hugely popular despite being dogged by bribery allegations. Shibu Soren, who became Jharkhand’s chief minister for the third time Wednesday, will also face two murder cases not long after getting the top ...
  6 days ago

• Sen. Dodd, D-Conn., slashed aviation security funding for pet constituency

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Now that our attention is focused on airline security measures thanks to the failed airline attack on Christmas Day, its worth mentioning that one senator took money away from aviation security to line the pockets of a constituency that supported his presidential campaign in a big way. Back in July, Senator Chris ...
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• Sen. Dodd, D-Conn., slashed aviation security funding for pet constituency

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Now that our attention is focused on airline security measures thanks to the failed airline attack on Christmas Day, its worth mentioning that one Senator took money away from aviation security to line the pockets of constituency that supported his presidential campaign in a big way. Back in July, Senator Chris Dodd, ...
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• Dodd cut aviation security funding in July

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Mark Hemingway has a long memory for budgeting amendments, which he proves at the Washington Examiner. With focus returned to airport security, Mark reminds us of how Chris Dodd paid off a political constituency by getting a little pork to the firefighters union that supported his bid for the presidency in 2007-8, ...
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• The Militarization of SexThe story of Hezbollahs halal hookups.

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Mohammad, a 40-year old Lebanese Shiite who lives in Hezbollahs stronghold in Beiruts southern suburbs, was holding forth on the virtues of resistance, loyalty, and sex. "You could create the most loyal army by providing political power, social services and fulfilling the desires of your men -- namely, sexual ones," ...
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• Nothing wrong in supporting Shibu Soren: Sushma Swaraj

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Bhopal, Dec 28 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj Monday said there was nothing wrong in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) decision to support a Shibu Soren-led Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) government in Jharkhand, as he had been absolved of murder charges by the high court.“The party’s ...
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• Election Commission defers Tamil Nadu by-poll

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Chennai, Dec 28 (IANS) The Election Commission Monday announced that the by-poll to the Pennagaram assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu, to be held Jan 20, had been postponed following demands in this regard by the major opposition parties in the state.The ruling DMK and its ally Congress, however, expressed their ...
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• ‘Demolition man’ Alphons turns master builder in Kerala

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Kanjirappally (Kerala), Dec 26 (IANS) K.J. Alphons, who was known as the ‘demolition man’ responsible for razing thousands of illegal constructions in New Delhi, is now being seen as a ‘master builder’ in Kerala. He has fulfilled a long-standing demand for a mini civil station in his constituency, a building ...
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• Nick Griffin MEP’s First Constituency Newsletter

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 576
  Just days before Christmas, when politics is on hold for 99.9 percent of politicians, Nick Griffin MEP launched his first ever constituency newsletter in his North West constituency. This is just one of the hundreds of new tasks to which the constituency team have applied themselves since taking on their new roles. ...
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• Global Warming Can’t Stop North East Activists

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 576
  World leaders attending the Copenhagen summit on climate change and global warming had obviously forgotten to inform Mother Nature as cold weather gripped the continent and snow-proof clothing was mandatory for the latest leafleting session in the North Durham constituency, reports our North East correspondent. ...
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• BNP takes on Balls in Morley and Outwood

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 576
  The British National Party has selected its prospective candidate for the new Morley and Outwood constituency at the next General Election. Councillor Chris Beverley (Morley South ward, Leeds City Council) has been selected as the prospective candidate for the seat. The BNP beat all the main political parties across ...
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