Elections

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has registered her candidacy for an April by-election, as her opposition party comes full circle after being politically ostracized for two decades.

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For the first time in the history of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), the number of women corporators is higher than men. Of the total 145 seats, the fairer sex covered 74 seats while the men were left with just 71 in the 2012 NMC election.

Former mayor and BJP candidate from Ravinagar, Maya Iwnate created history by winning from a general seat beating five men. Thus, Ravinagar ward has two women corporators.

Women were restricted to cast their votes in Mianwali constituency for by-elections on six National Assembly (NA) seats and four seats of the provincial assemblies. According to the Pakistan Observer, some elders held a Jirga that decided women would not be allowed to cast their votes in Mianwali constituency.

Voters in Uttar Pradesh set an all-time record in polling percentage, with officials saying about 60 percent of its 127 million electorate exercised their franchise in the staggered polling that began Feb 8 and ended Saturday.

Woman participation in the 2012 assembly election also soared to a new high, with 59.80 percent voting.

"This is an all-time high," Sinha told IANS. The previous highest figure for women was 41.92 percent.

The draft electoral rolls of 2012 indicated a fall in the numbers of registered female voters, said the Pattan Development Organisation report on Thursday.

The report showed that compared to 2008, the number had fallen by 1,378,697 in 2012 becoming five percent lesser than that in 2008. While, on the other hand, the number of registered male voters had increased by 1,020,051. The difference between registered male voters and female voters was also a staggering figure of 12,155,339.

Hong Kong Chief Executive-Elect Leung Chun-ying plans to bar mainland Chinese women from giving birth in the city next year after an influx of mothers-to-be strained resources and stoked public discontent.

The ban will apply to private hospitals, Leung told reporters yesterday. Children born to mainland parents won’t be guaranteed local permanent residency, he also said.