With eye on Gen Y, CPI-M launches election campaign website

October 1st, 2009 CHENNAI - The Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC) on Wednesday launched a virtual tours on its website to enable the tourists to have first hand experience of the tourist locations in the state. The website has captured and displayed the eye catching natural beauty and architectural splendours of the spectacular tourist hot spots of this south Indian state.

September 10th, 2009 Kolkata, Sept 10 (IBNS) A new website www.empoweringindia.org was inaugurated by the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal Debasis Sen in presence of former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee here Wednesday. This website has been developed by the Press Institute of India and the Liberty Institute in partnership with Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung fur die Freiheit to educate ordinary citizen about their democratic rights and how to use it properly.

September 7th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Kashmir University launches first trilingual English-Kashmiri-Hindi online dictionary, containing over 12,000 words, to promote Kashmiri language. Christened as 'Kashmiri Zaban.com, the dictionary has been compiled by university's department of linguistics making use of three scripts, Roman for English, Devanagri for Hindi and Modified Persio-Arabic for Kashmiri.

September 6th, 2009 Germany's Merkel launches re-election campaignBERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel has kicked off her conservative party's campaign for the Sept. 27 German election by calling for a center-right coalition with the pro-business Free Democrats.

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ahead of the G8 summit in Italy, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Monday launched the website of the outreach partners, an important step that underlines increasing congruence among G5 countries which share common positions on key global issues.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The new election commission website, which was specially created to upload the election results, developed snags Saturday morning, with officials saying that they were 'trying to sort it out'. 'Since early Saturday a lot of people have been checking the new election commission website for the results because of which there has been a congestion.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission's new website, specially created to provide the Lok Sabha election trends and results, developed technical snags in the morning and evening Saturday. The website's server crashed for over two hours in the evening and poll panel officials said it would be set right soon.

April 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who now has a Sanskrit website, believes that use of the 'sacred' language is 'the best way to integrate and revitalise India'. Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Ashok Singhal launched Modi's websites in Sanskrit and Hindi in Ahmedabad Saturday.

April 22nd, 2009 NYC mayor launches online ad blitzNEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign ads are already all over television and radio, and now they'll be popping up online as well. Bloomberg campaign officials say the ads are designed to be activated by keywords.

April 6th, 2009 KOLKATA - Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) patriarch Jyoti Basu Monday regretted not being able to participate in the election campaign for the Left Front in West Bengal, saying he was 'physically unfit' to do so. 'This time I could do nothing for the Left Front as I have become physically unfit to participate in poll campaign,' Basu told reporters at his Salt Lake residence here, while launching a website for Laxman Seth, the CPI-M candidate from Tamluk Lok Sabha seat.

March 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), using IT tools aggressively in its election campaigns to woo young voters, plans to give a new look to its website, making it more colourful, interactive and vibrant. 'The website is expected to be officially launched Saturday by BJP president Rajnath Singh,' a party source said Friday.

March 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress party launched its advertisement campaign for the upcoming general election on Friday. Aiming to spice up its election campaign, the Congress party has also bought the rights to "Jai Ho," the Oscar-winning song from "Slumdog Millionaire." Talking to reporters here Party spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan said that the campaign focuses on the party's achievement down the years.

March 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday appointed its general secretary Arun Jaitley as the chief coordinator for its Lok Sabha election campaign. He will be assisted by general secretary (organisation) Ram Lal, according to a party statement.

March 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Press Information Bureau (PIB) Monday released a reference handbook having information on past elections and the latest provisions relating to the Lok Sabha polls. 'The PIB released 'General Elections 2009 - Reference Handbook', a compendium on past elections and the latest provisions relating to the general elections, coinciding with the announcement of the general elections by the Election Commission,' a statement issued by Press Information Bureau said.

January 12th, 2009 LONDON - Actress Mischa Barton, best known for her role in the television series 'The O.C.', has launched a website to support her handbag collections. Her bag collections include totes, drawstring shoulder bags and clutches and are available on her website www.mischabartonhandbags.com 'This time the collection is an extension of my debut collection,' vogue.co.uk quoted Barton as saying.