Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe has cited the need to reform the local councils’ system. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Sri Lanka’s top election body announced on January 4 that it will accept nominations from January 18 to 21 for the local council polls, which have been postponed since March amidst the prevailing economic crisis. Notices … Read more
A man searches for his name on a voters registrations list at a polling station in Kinshasa. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Democratic Republic of Congo will hold its next presidential polls on December 20, 2023, the country’s electoral commission said on Saturday. The announcement comes as M23 rebels have advanced in the restive … Read more
An election commission staff member in Nepal separates ballot papers to count a day after the general election in Kathmandu. Once all votes are counted, the 275 elected members of Parliament will chose a prime minister who will have to get the support of half the chamber | Photo Credit: AP As the counting of … Read more
Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. | Photo Credit: Reuters Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has been elected with a huge margin of votes from the Dadeldhura constituency in far west Nepal for the seventh consecutive time. Mr. Deuba, 77, secured 25,534 votes against his nearest rival Sagar Dhakal, 31, an independent candidate who received … Read more
An election commission staff separates ballot papers to count a day after the general election in Kathmandu, Nepal on November 21, 2022. | Photo Credit: AP The ruling Nepali Congress has so far won four seats in the House of Representatives, while the main opposition party CPN-UML bagged two seats in the just-concluded Nepal election, … Read more
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim shows his inked finger after voting at a polling station in Seberang Perai, Penang state, Malaysia on November 19, 2022. | Photo Credit: AP The coalition of Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was running neck and neck with a rival bloc led by a former prime minister in a tight … Read more
One of CBS’s West Coast subsidiaries has paused its postings and interactions on Twitter, in light of ongoing uncertainty over the future of the social media platform. Taking to Twitter, naturally, to announce the news, KPIX-TV said it would be pausing its activity while it continues to monitor the platform. In light of the uncertainty … Read more
Chief Election Commission Rajiv Kumar. | Photo Credit: Kamal Narang Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar has been invited by the Election Commission of Nepal as an international observer for the forthcoming elections there. Elections are scheduled in Nepal on November 20 to elect 275 members of the Federal Parliament and 550 seats of the seven … Read more
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: Article content MANAMA — Bahrainis on Saturday voted in parliamentary elections held in an environment rights groups described as “political repression” since the Gulf Arab state has dissolved the main opposition groups and cracked down on dissent. Turnout would be announced after polling ends at 8:00 … Read more
In Pennsylvania, Democrat John Fetterman flipped a Republican-controlled Senate seat key to the party. In the evenly split Senate, battleground was focussed on the deeply contested States of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin In Pennsylvania, Democrat John Fetterman flipped a Republican-controlled Senate seat key to the party. In the evenly split Senate, battleground was focussed … Read more