Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases beginning from April 19 and results will be announced on June 4, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said on Saturday. The other phases will be on April 26, May 7, May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1. Assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim will be held on April 19, and in Andhra Pradesh on May 13. Elections to Odisha assembly will be held in four phases on May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1. Bypolls will also be held for 26 assembly constituencies, Kumar said at…
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By Nava J Thakuria Appreciating the mainstream Assamese society for taking a rational views on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 despite provoking statements from some so-called intellectuals, journalists and political analysts, the Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) urges both the governments in New Delhi and Dispur to convince the people of Assam that the CAA deadline 31 December 2014 will not be extended anymore and the central government will pursue with the neighbouring countries (precisely Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan), which regularly indulge in religious persecution against minorities like Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians. It may be mentioned…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the DMK-Congress alliance in Tamil Nadu and charged they know only to cheat and insult women. Modi charged the alliance questioned its move to pass the women’s reservation bill.” Addressing a BJP rally in Kanyakumari, Modi said, “The workers of DMK and Congress only know how to cheat and insult women. The people of Tamil Nadu know how the workers of DMK behaved with former chief minister Jayalalithaa. They do politics in the name of women. DMK leaders also questioned our move to bring the Women’s Reservation Bill,” ANI reported. “DMK is the enemy of…
The Ministry of Home Affairs today released videos depicting the success of the Modi government in curbing the menace of left-wing extremism or Naxalism. The videos were shared by Union Minister of Home Amit Shah on his X handle (formerly Twitter). He said, “PM @narendramodi Ji’s government has dealt a body blow to Naxalism with a holistic approach to development and security in the Naxalism-affected regions. The Modi government has won people’s trust by taking the state governments along for overall development.” He further added, “The Modi government has won the hearts of the poor living in the Naxalism-affected areas…
BRS chief and former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter and BRS MLC K Kavitha was taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the Delhi liquor scam case on Friday evening. Earlier in the day ED and Income Tax officials from Delhi conducted searches in her house for about six hours and seized several mobile phones and critical documents. The raids follow after she skipped the ED summons multiple times. ED had issued summons in January and February this year. The officials also recorded her statement relating to the Delhi liquor scam case. The ED had claimed Kavitha was linked to a…
The Election Commission will announce the schedule for the Lok Sabha polls on Saturday. In a post on X, the poll panel said a press conference to announce the schedule for Lok Sabha elections and some state assemblies will be held at 3 pm on Saturday. The term of the present Lok Sabha ends on June 16 and a new House has to be constituted before that. The term of the assemblies in Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Odisha is coming to an end on various dates in June. The announcement comes soon after the two new election commissioners assumed charge…
The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (I&B) has taken action, in coordination with various intermediaries, to block 18 OTT platforms publishing “obscene,” “vulgar,” and, in some instances, “pornographic content”. 19 websites, 10 apps (7 on the Google Play Store and 3 on the Apple App Store), and 57 social media accounts associated with these platforms have been disabled for public access in India, an official statement from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said on Thursday. Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting Anurag Singh Thakur has repeatedly emphasized the responsibility of the platforms to not propagate obscenity, vulgarity and abuse…
The Election Commission of India on Thursday made public the data on electoral bonds submitted to it by the State Bank of India, a move that is seen as a big step towards bringing transparency in political funding. The SBI had submitted the details to the poll panel on Tuesday, a day after the Supreme Court gave a stern order and set a one-day deadline. The court had also directed the EC to publish the data on its website by March 15. “The Election Commission of India has today uploaded the data on electoral bonds on its website as received…
The High-Level Committee on ‘One Nation One Election’ led by former President Ram Nath Kovind in its report recommended that in the event of a hung House, a no-confidence motion constitutes the new House, fresh elections may be held for the remainder of the five-year term. Where fresh elections are held for the House of the People, the tenure of the House of the People will be only for the unexpired term of the immediately preceding full term of the House of the People and the expiration of this period shall operate as a dissolution of the House, the committee…
Retired bureaucrats Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Gyanesh Kumar were on Thursday named as the new election commissioners by a panel chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The panel, which consists of Leader of Opposition Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, shortlisted the two officials from a list of six probables. “In this committee, government has the majority … one Mr Kumar from Kerala and one Mr B. Sandhu from Punjab have been selected as Election Commissioners,” Chowdhury was quoted as saying by agencies. The Congress leader said he had given a dissent note, questioning the selection procedure. Both Sandhu…