The Election Commission on Monday ordered the removal of home secretaries in six states. These top bureaucrats were found to be holding dual charges at the chief minister’s offices in Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The move is part of the commission’s efforts to ensure free, fair and transparent elections in the country. The decision was made during a meeting attended by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and fellow ECs Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu on Monday. This comes two days after the dates for Lok Sabha elections and assembly polls in four states were announced…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday extended greetings to Vladimir Putin for re-electing as Russian President for the next six years. “Warm congratulations to H.E. Mr. Vladimir Putin on his re-election as the President of the Russian Federation. Look forward to working together to further strengthen the time-tested Special & Privileged Strategic Partnership between India and Russia in the years to come,” PM Modi wrote for his “friend” Putin. Later, the Russian Embassy in India also reacted to PM Modi’s post on the social media handle. It is worth mentioning India and Russia have shared exemplary relations since independence. The relationship further took…
Dattatreya Hosabale has re-elected as Sarkaryavah of Rashtreeya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) at the three day long annual Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha, concluded in Nagpur on Sunday. He has been unanimously re-elected as Sarkaryavah for the next three years (2024- 2027). Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh Sunil Ambekar announced this and also congratulated Dattatreya Hosabale at the beginning of the press conference. He announced new executive committee with six saha sarkaryavahas. They are Krishna Gopal, Mukund, Arun Kumar, Ramdutt Chakradhar, Atul Limaye and Alok Kumar. Hosabale said that election is a big festival of democracy. It is essential to strengthen the nation’s democracy, unity…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called on the people of Andhra Pradesh to vote for “double-engine sarkar” of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for rapid development of the state. Addressing a mammoth rally of the NDA in the state’s Palnadu district, he appealed to people to vote for ‘Viksit Bharat’ and ‘Viksit Andhra Pradesh’. Sharing the dais with Telugu Desam Party (TDP) President N. Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena Party (JSP) leader and actor Pawan Kalyan after a gap of 10 years, the Prime Minister said that the next five years will be important for the rapid development of…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday told ministers to draft a roadmap for the first 100 days and next five years for new government, sources said. Chairing a Cabinet meeting here this morning, the PM also asked them to meet secretaries and other officials of their respective ministries to discuss how the agenda for the first 100 days and the next five years can be better implemented. The meeting took place a day after the Election Commission announced schedule for the Lok Sabha polls 2024. The Cabinet also initiated the process of notifying the dates of the seven-phase parliamentary elections by…
A mob attacked five international students studying at Gujarat University for offering Ramadan prayers in the University hostel premises during the late hours of Saturday. The students were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment and two of them remain hospitalised. The five students hailing from Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka were offering taraweeh – a namaz offered at night during Ramadan in their hostel rooms when a group arrived there with sticks and knives questioning the practice. The attack happened in Block A of the university and the group allegedly damaged mobile phones, laptops, motorcycles and ransacked…
India on Friday abstained from a vote in the United Nations General Assembly on a Pakistan-sponsored resolution on measures to combat Islamophobia, averring that while New Delhi condemns all “acts motivated by anti-Semitism, Christianophobia or Islamophobia, it is crucial to acknowledge that such phobias extend beyond the Abrahamic religions”. Explaining the vote, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ruchira Kambhoj, said: “Clear evidence shows that over decades, followers of non-Abrahamic religions have also been affected by religiophobia. This has led to the emergence of contemporary forms of religiophobia, particularly anti-Hindu, anti-Buddhist and anti-Sikh elements…. It is time we acknowledge…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hailed the commencement of the 18th general election process saying the ruling BJP was fully prepared for the polls. PM also floated #PhirEkBaarModiSarkar hashtag. Seconds after the Election Commission of India announced the poll schedules, the PM said on X, ‘The biggest festival of democracy is here! EC has announced the 2024 Lok Sabha election dates. We, the BJP-NDA, are fully prepared for elections. We are going to the people on the basis of our track record of good governance and service delivery across sectors.” PM also floated #PhirEkBaarModiSarkar hashtag. While attacking the oppositin INDIA bloc, PM…
The nation witnessed a poised moment from Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast last Monday, 11 March. Mission ‘Divyastra’ or the ‘weapon of the Gods’ has successfully demonstrated the first flight equipped with multiple warheads. Agni-V, the supersonic missile project of India widely range from 5000 Km and covers almost all of India’s neighbouring countries. Scientist Sheena Rani, native to Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram, helmed the team of Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) scientists behind the modified edition of Agni-V. The senior scientist at DRDO is currently the missile project program director at Hyderabad-based Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL). She…
The Election Commission of India has announced the dates for assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, which will be held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections in these states. In Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, the assembly polls will be held on April 19, when the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections will be held. Andhra Pradesh and Odisha assembly elections will be held on May 13 simultaneously with the Lok Sabha polls there. In Andhra Pradesh, last date for nominations will be April 25, nominations scrutiny on April 26, last date for withdraw of nominations will be…