Vol XXXVIII (No. 7), 30 Jul 2010
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Former vice president Shekhawat dies at 86

MIL/India Talkies, May 15, 2010


Jaipur: May 15, 2010 – Former vice president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, who made an unsuccessful bid at becoming president two years ago, died at a hospital here Saturday. He was 86.



Karzai in trouble, Rift With U.S. to Gain Favor With Afghans

MIL/NYT/HELENE COOPER, Aug 29, 2009


August 29, 2009 – IR Summary/NYT – Are Afghan President elections held in Afghanistan last week a success? Even President Obama congratulated the Afghan’s people’s effort to accomplish their historic election for taking control of their own future even though there was extreme violence.



Dozens of candidates & Two Women for Afghan Presidency

MIL/NYT/CARLOTTA GALL, Aug 19, 2009


KABUL, Afghanistan — August 19, 2009 – IR Summary/NYT – The election of President of Afghanistan on Thursday has a typical interest and anxiety, there are several dozen barely known candidates running for president of Afghanistan among them two women, a 62-year-old mullah, a caretaker and a fortuneteller; just because the politics is their blood even though they are not well educated.



God Believers disapprove Taliban’s Threat to cut off voters’ fingers

MIL/NYT, Aug 17, 2009


Tarakai, Afghanistan: August 17, 2009 - IR Summary/NYT - A local Taliban group has recently given a public announcement a few days ago that anyone found guilty of voting would lose his finger by which they vote and this threat has apparently cast a dark shadow all over so far election is concerned; thus the people may not take risk of voting in the Presidential election and if it happens, what could happen is any body’s guess?



Two Blasts jerk Afghanistan

MIL/BBC, Aug 13, 2009


August 13, 2009 – IR Summmary/BBC -Two bomb blasts occurred in the Southern Provinces of Helmand and Kandhahar, both regions at the heart of Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan have killed at least 14 civilians, including several children, just days ahead of nationwide elections, officials say. Nato and US troops have been battling insurgents in the south ahead of next week's presidential elections.



Top Clerical Council in Iran Rejects Plea to Annul Vote

MIL/NYT, Jun 23, 2009


Cairo: June 23, 2009 - Iran’s most powerful oversight council has refused to nullify the contested presidential election just one day after it announced that the number of votes recorded in 50 cities exceeded the number of eligible voters there by three million, further tarnishing a presidential election that has set off the most sustained challenge to Iran’s leadership in 30 years, Iranian state television said Tuesday.



Iran acknowledges Discrepancies in 3 Million Votes

MIL/NYT, Jun 22, 2009


Tehran, Iran : June 22, 2009, IR Summary/NYT – The pressure by the demonstrators have compelled the Iranian govt. to come out with the truth and it is reported that they have now admitted the mass scale rigging in the elections.



As Confrontation Deepens, Iran’s Leader to Speak

MIL/NYT, Jun 19, 2009


TEHRAN June 19, 2009 - As another day of defiance and uncertainty loomed in Iran’s capital on Friday, it was increasingly apparent that there was no clear path out of a deepening confrontation that has posed the most serious challenge to the Islamic republic in its 30-year history.



LS Polls in India costier than US President : CL Sahu, Adv. Supreme Court

MIL, Mar 3, 2009


New Delhi, India: March 3, 2009 – Dr. Raj Baldev, Cosmo Theorist from India - Lok Sabha elections in India shall this time be costlier than what has been spent on U.S. Elections; what Mr. Barack Obama and other Presidential Candidates have spent on their elections shall most certainly be lesser than what India would be spending on its Lok Sabha elections, to be held in April, two mighty democracies and mighty expenditure.



Obama collected Record $750 Million for his Campaign

MIL/NYT, Dec 5, 2008


Washington: December 5, 2008 – IR Summary/NYT - President-elect Barack Obama collected nearly $750 million for his presidential campaign, a record amount that exceeds what all of the candidates combined collected in private donations in the previous race for the White House.





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