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Bye-election to the 14/Yaiskul Assambly constituency which became vacant earlier after the demise of Elangbam Kunjeswor, MLA, of the Congress, has been fixed today by the Election Commission of India (ECI), joint CEO of state government N Praveen. As per the notification, elections to the 14-Yaikul AC will be held on December 19, Saturday. Official announcement of election will be made on November 25 and last date for nomination will be on December 2, date of scrutiny of the nomintations will be on De  

Our performance in this house is not going to be measured necessarily by the number of questions we ask and motions we pass through this parliament but by their relevance to the lives of our constituents and how they ultimately translate into resolutions. The international observer missions have made their pronouncements on the conduct of the elections. Unfortunately they usually come at the tail end of a long process and evaluate the event.

the education system will need to produce more industry relevant graduates through development and delivery of quality academic programmes at all levels   -BNF

 

Party representatives have called for a halt to early registration of voters to avoid objections that lead to apathy. Speaking at a workshop to evaluate the last general elections, the representatives said voter registration should be as close to the polling as possible. They said the first registration for this year's general elections was in 2007 and after this there had been a lot of movement and relocation by voters.  

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. (AP) — More than 1,300 people have already voted on whether to let the Charles Town Races&Slots put table games in its casino. Early voting in Jefferson County began Nov. 13 and continues through Dec. 2. Wendy Evangelisti, an assistant clerk for elections, says 1,376 votes had been cast at the county courthouse by noon Friday.  

The state has decided not to appeal a judge's decision that allows South Dakota's new smoking ban law to be referred to a public vote in the 2010 election. The decision was announced Friday by Attorney General Marty Jackley and Secretary of State Chris Nelson. The law would ban smoking in bars and casinos.  

Residents who would like to serve on the Berkeley Board of Education should submit a resume to the board office. The board is seeking a replacement for Jeffrey Suarez, 50, whose term expires April 2011. He was elected to the board April 2008, but has missed at least three monthly board meetings in a row because he is working in Afghanistan training a police force there.

The board needs to have at least seven members present   -James Byrnes

 

While assuring that 100 percent of India's electorate will be issued Electronic Photo-Identity Cards (EPIC) in two years time, Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla said here on Friday that to increase the involvement of the youth in the election process, the Commission is contemplating issuing EPICs to college students who a re temporarily living outside the area of their residence. "The plans are still at the drawing board stage," Mr. Chawla said. For example, if a student residing in Delhi is livi

The plans are still at the drawing board stage   -Navin Chawla

 

The fiasco of the elections in Afghanistan has been widely lamented. Most laments focus on a single obvious fact: by winning a new term through fraud at the polls, President Hamid Karzai has weakened his legitimacy, endangered the already tepid support he enjoys in Washington DC, and handed the Taliban another piece of evidence, if one is needed, that his regime is corrupt. How could this result have been prevented, or how might it be prevented in the future?  

It's not often that the front pages of the Daily Mail and the Guardian have identical headlines. Still, both newspapers are right: it is a great EU stitch-up, this back-room installation of favoured placemen. Saying so doesn't make you rightwing or leftwing; it makes you a democrat.