Monthly Archive for February, 2006

Congress Wins 2008 Delhi Assembly Elections

This prediction states that Indian National Congress will secure a simple majority in the capital again, in the next Assembly elections in 2008 (or sooner, if the assembly assembly elections are held earlier).

The arbitration date can be extended if the election results are not know by that time. Similarly, the prediction can be closed earlier if the election results are know earlier and this is brought to the notice of the moderators.

100 shares of this prediction [symbol: CONGRESS-DELHI-08] are available for purchase on the PublicGyan exchange at an initial price of 50 moolers each, following Dutch rules.

Prediction closed: BSE-SENSEX-10K FALSE

The official BSE website has listed 9,945.19 as the highest that the BSE SENSEX reached during the prediction timeperiod and hence the prediction BSE-SENSEX-10K has been judged as FALSE and closed, returning 0 Moolers/share.

The trading on this prediction started at 50 Moolers per share and was valued at 60 Moolers per share before the close of the prediction. Though the collective intellegence seems to have got this prediction wrong, it has to be noted that the SENSEX was lower that 8,700 when the prediction was opened for trading and the system did predict the rise to the 9,900 range, barely missing the 10K mark by 55 points!

Prediction closed: PAHELI-OSCAR-05 FALSE

Indian Express is reporting that Paheli has not been nominated in the Best Foreign Film category at the Oscars and hence the prediction PAHELI-OSCAR-05 has been judged as FALSE and closed, returning 0 Moolers/share.

The trading on this prediction started at 50 Moolers per share and was valued at 11 Moolers per share before the close of the prediction.