Indonesian opposition leads poll

JAKARTA: Indonesians voted for a new parliament on Wednesday in a poll expected to be dominated by the opposition Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P), boosting the chances of its popular candidate in a presidential election three months ...

Updated LAHORE, 13 Apr:Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) rejected anti-constitutional Protection Of Pakistan Ordinance, and will join Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf in protest against it. PML-QPresident Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain also said anti-army ...

(Reuters) / 15 April 2014 The group said parliament should be able to work without the threat of dissolution, unless there are exceptional circumstances. An opposition group in ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's parliament has set residency rules for presidential candidates, state media said on Friday, a move that would bar many of President Bashar al-Assad's foes who live in exile as the uprising in the major Arab state enters its fourth ...

Islamabad, Apr 8 (ANI): Pakistan's National Assembly reportedly approved the Protection of Pakistan Bill, amid much chaos and protests from the opposition. After the Pakistan Protection Bill 2013 was presented in the upper house; chaos ensued and ...

Kiev: The Ukrainian Parliament on Wednesday in a dramatic late night session adopted a law that would grant amnesty to protesters arrested during the country's crisis, but the opposition refused to vote. The majority Regions Party backed the law, with 232 ...

"It was for the first time of independent India that an executive decision was dragged into discussion and debate in parliament" Anand Sharma said. NEW DELHI: Commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma has come down hard on BJP's opposition to foreign direct ...

BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said the "people will judge us on the role we played in the opposition, and as the ruling government in several states, in the Lok Sabha polls".She pointed out that by June 1, a new Lok Sabha would have been

This is what the home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had said earlier: On the Telangana bill: He said he was "obliged" to the BJP for its support. He said he was not sure whether BJP would support the bill but "you did not sit on the prestige that the announcement for creation of the new state had been made by Sonia Gandhi 10 years back and you had also promised it." Specifically, choosing Swaraj for the eloquent praise, Shinde said "aap ki baat mein mithaas hai, mithai khane se bhi woh ...