Weekly Diary, No.628 (16-26 April 2013)

Apparently, the Interim Council of Ministers, which assumed office several months ago, could not withstand the psychological and political pressures and ultimately succumbed by declaring on June 13, 2013 the date of holding the Constituent Assembly ...

This week, members of the House of Commons Welsh Grand Committee debated the impact of the UK Government's legislative programme on Wales. The Welsh Grand Committee is a curious, pre-devolution attempt to carve space in Westminster to consider ...

Where there is discussion of electoral boundaries, two keywords redelineation' and malapportionment' are bound to crop up. THE GE13 is over, and once again, the Election Commission (EC) will be reviewing the country's electoral boundaries. And ...

With Narendra Modi taking charge as head of the Bharatiya Janata Party's election campaign committee, one presumes he will deploy his own team of analysts to study the party's strengths and weaknesses across different States. If his approach in ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The Election Commission (EC) has denied claims of inequality among constituencies, saying that critics did not consider the increase in voter population over the last decade. EC deputy said the inequality among the constituencies was ...

Of course, there was a moral justification over the centuries for the Irish to take up arms and kick out the occupier. However, the great and the good believe that this needed to be done with a mandate, i.e you have your country taken over by a ...

KATHMANDU, JUN 07 - As the deadline set by Chairman of the Interim Election Government Khil Raj Regmi for major parties to hammer out a deal on disputed issues of an electoral law ended on Friday, the parties in the High-level Political Committee ...

KATHMANDU: Whether to retain the provision of threshold in the Constituent Assembly election laws or not has now become the bone of contention among the parties, although the four major forces came closer on other contentious issues at todays High ...

BARISAN Nasional undoubtedly won the 13th General Election by the simple fact that it obtained 133 seats against the 89 secured by opposition parties. By Western standards, it is a landslide victory, although BN is used to having a two-thirds ...