Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts

Friday, January 20, 2017

Capitol Vs Capital

As I was following the Inauguration, the headlines in newspaper said "Trump heads to Capitol" .  Something about the spelling felt wrong... I realized I had learnt to spell it as "Capital" and concluded spelling mistake in the newspaper.
 But as I followed the news in other websites / new papers found it was indeed "Capitol".
Curiosity got the better of me and I searched wiki.
Definitions are:
Capitol : capitol is a building in which a legislature meets
Capital :
  • Capital city, the area of a country, province, region, or state, regarded as enjoying primary status, usually but not always the seat of the government

Thursday, May 28, 2009

2009 - Indian Cabinet Ministers

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Complete-list-of-Cabinet-ministers/articleshow/4590365.cms

 a good list to be aware of !

Monday, December 08, 2008

It happens only in India ....

Yeddyurappa, Chief Minister of Karnataka to receive Honorary Doctorate for his contribution in "Public Life".
WHAT?????? Read here for more ...

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

49-O

Learnt about it today ...
No more "Didn't find any leader worthy of my vote ... hence did not vote" reasoning. Apparently in India, a valid voter can go to the booth and need not cast his vote if the candidates are not worthy of his vote. If the number of votes that were not casted is greater than any of the casted vote for a candidate, it calls for a re-election. And the best part, the same candidates are not allowed to contest the elections.

Please make your vote count ... check out the details here.