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In the 'First-Past-The-Post' system of elections, the candidate who gets the maximum valid votes wins that constituency of the assembly or parliament. This concept is based on the analogy of the racing track.

The elections to the Jammu & Kashmir assembly, which governor Satya Pal Malik dissolved Wednesday night after the day-long dramatic developments, can be held before May and possibly before the national elections, Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat today said.

An escort car for President Pranab Mukherjee fell into a gorge in Darjeeling today. All six security personnel traveling in the car were rescued in an operation that was overseen by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.

Let us consider the episode, then, not in terms of a chronological narrative but as a function of the role of and impact on the five principal sets of stakeholders.

The INS Rajali, a naval air station in Arakonnam, about 70 km from Chennai, will serve not just as make-shift airport for commercial flights, but also the base for large Air Force rescue planes to land.

There are those who have described the Indian Army's operations against cross-border insurgency groups hiding in villages in Myanmar as dramatic and new. There are others who have pointed out that such operations have been conducted before - in Myanmar itself and famously in Bhutan, against the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and other milit...

Over five lakh people are still stranded in flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked for rescue and relief operations to be ramped up after being briefed at an emergency meeting last night. Almost 200 people have died in the state's worst floods in decades.

In the 'First-Past-The-Post' system of elections, the candidate who gets the maximum valid votes wins that constituency of the assembly or parliament. This concept is based on the analogy of the racing track.

The elections to the Jammu & Kashmir assembly, which governor Satya Pal Malik dissolved Wednesday night after the day-long dramatic developments, can be held before May and possibly before the national elections, Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat today said.

An escort car for President Pranab Mukherjee fell into a gorge in Darjeeling today. All six security personnel traveling in the car were rescued in an operation that was overseen by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.

Let us consider the episode, then, not in terms of a chronological narrative but as a function of the role of and impact on the five principal sets of stakeholders.

The INS Rajali, a naval air station in Arakonnam, about 70 km from Chennai, will serve not just as make-shift airport for commercial flights, but also the base for large Air Force rescue planes to land.

There are those who have described the Indian Army's operations against cross-border insurgency groups hiding in villages in Myanmar as dramatic and new. There are others who have pointed out that such operations have been conducted before - in Myanmar itself and famously in Bhutan, against the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and other milit...

Over five lakh people are still stranded in flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked for rescue and relief operations to be ramped up after being briefed at an emergency meeting last night. Almost 200 people have died in the state's worst floods in decades.