Wed, Dec 18, 2024
The One Nation, One Election Bill was tabled in Parliament, with the Opposition claiming it is aimed at pleasing one individual. This video covers the key details of the bill and the political reactions to its introduction.
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Sat, Nov 23, 2024
Maharashtra Election 2024: The counting of votes for the 2024 Maharashtra state election began at 8 am amid tight security on Saturday, November 23. This week, electors cast their ballots for the 288-seat Legislative Assembly in a single-phase polling process, on November 20. The ruling Mahayuti alliance, comprising BJP, Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction) and NCP (Ajit Pawar faction), is looking to retain power in the state against Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) bloc, which includes the INC, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray faction), and NCP (Sharad Pawar faction). Follow this space to catch the latest updates on the Maharashtra election results. Read on to learn more about the early trends.
Wed, Nov 20, 2024
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA is projected to get a clear majority while the Hemant Soren-led INDIA Bloc alliance is headed for a setback in Jharkhand, said Matrize polling agency in its Exit Poll predictions.
Fri, Apr 27, 2018
An algorithm glitch that showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s photo as "India`s first PM" on Google Search and led to much outrage on Twitter has been fixed.
Thu, Apr 26, 2018
Prime Minister Narendra Modi got into poll modeat top speed and talked tough today ahead of the poll campaign. PM accused CM Siddaramaiah led Congress government in Karnataka of stalling its progress and said that development was the only agenda of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Wed, Apr 25, 2018
Only eight to nine incidents of violence were reported during the filing of nominations. Four persons have died and all of them belonged to the TMC, she said. She said that her party, the Trinamool Congress, does not want violence and claimed that the opposition parties were "spreading canards" against her government
West Bengal Assembly elections 2018: According to the list of nominations filed by various political parties for the panchayat polls, the TMC is way ahead of its rivals in all the three segments of the panchayat polls. The panchayat elections will be held across 48,650 seats in 3,358 gram panchayats, 9,217 seats in 341 panchayat samitis and 825 seats in 20 zilla parishads in three phases
Tue, Apr 24, 2018
Karnataka assembly elections 2018: Besides Narendra Modi and BJP national President Amit Shah, Union Ministers Sushma Swaraj (External Affairs), Smriti Irani (Information and Broadcasting), Nirmala Sitharaman (Defence), Ravi Shankar Prasad (Law and Justice), Piyush Goyal (Railways) and party`s Lok Sabha MP and veteran actress Hema Malini will soon be in the southern state
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday accused the Congress government in poll-bound Karnataka of adopting “the model of political violence” from Kerala, but assured people that BJP will end the violent targeting of political workers if it comes to power in the state.
Many in the Congress admit the separate religious minority status has also brought old doctrinal debates into the heart of the electoral battle for Karnataka.
Mon, Apr 23, 2018
Karnataka Assembly elections 2018: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will replace Dr Devraj Patil in Badami constituency in North Karnataka, according to the updated list. Siddaramaiah is in the fray from the Chamundeshwari Assembly segment in Mysuru as well. The party has replaced its candidates in Jagalur (reserved for Scheduled Tribes candidate), Tiptur, Malleshwaram, Padmanaba Nagar and Madikeri
Wed, Apr 18, 2018
“What is so special about H S Chandramouli, lawyer of Nirav Modi’s uncle Mehul Choksi, that Congress gave him a ticket from Madikere while denying one to Brijesh Kalappa, Siddaramaiah’s legal advisor and party spokesperson? Rahul’s friends over CM’s aide? # CongressWithNirav, ” tweeted Amit Malviya, head of BJP’s IT and social media department
Tue, Apr 17, 2018
West Bengal Panchayat Elections 2018: The single bench is scheduled to hear the petitions by the opposition parties as well as by the State Election Commission and ruling Trinamool Congress. Noting that it was not unmindful of the expiry of the present panchayat in August and the necessity of completing the process by then, a division bench said that it, however, does not want to interfere in an "intra-court matter" at this stage and directed that the petitions be heard before the single bench
Thu, Mar 22, 2018
The richest candidate -- and most likely to-be parliamentarian -- is Mahendra Prasad of Janata Dal United (JD-U) with total assets worth a whopping Rs 4,078 crore. Prasad is distantly followed by actress Jaya Bachchan of Samajwadi Party who declared total assets worth Rs 1,001 crore.
Wed, Mar 21, 2018
Facebook data breach: The firm, the Union minister said, has been accused of using "sex, sleaze and fake news" to influence elections and asked if the Congress too plans to walk the same path. "The Congress must explain if it has engaged in data trade with Cambridge Analytica," he said, questioning the opposition party's "silence" despite numerous reports of its link with the company.
Tue, Mar 20, 2018
Introduction of technology-based solutions also makes it possible to cater to the requirements of the smaller borrowers, who were neglected in the pre-nationalisation era, the technocrat said. "The original rationale has gone away and so let most banks function on market principles owned by the general public," he told reporters, adding privatising them is also in the interest of taxpayers.
Slamming Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his speech at the Congress plenary, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said "rampant lies" have become the "hallmark" of the new Congress president.
Sun, Mar 18, 2018
The Representation of People's Act, which lays down the rules for elections, bars political parties from accepting foreign funds. The BJP government had through Finance Bill 2016 amended the FCRA to make it easier for parties to accept foreign funds. Now, it has amended it further to do away with the scope for scrutiny of a political party's funding since 1976
Mon, Mar 12, 2018
Araria bypoll in Bihar: The by-election to the Araria seat was necessitated by the death of sitting RJD lawmaker Mohd Taslimuddin. The contest is mainly between RJD's Sarafaraz Alam, Taslimuddin's son, and BJP's Pradip Singh, who had won the seat in 2009 and finished runner-up in 2014.
Sun, Mar 04, 2018
The National People`s Party (NPP) today met Meghalaya Governor Ganga Prasad and staked claim to form the next government in the state. The NPP, which secured 19 seats on its own, has the backing of six United Democratic Party (UDP) legislators, four People`s Democratic Front (PDF) MLAs, two each from the BJP and Hill State People`s Democratic Party (HSPDP) MLAs and an Independents legislator, taking the combined strength of the alliance to 34.
Sat, Feb 24, 2018
The opposition party said the guilty in bank frauds should be brought to book as no one will invest in the country if questions are raised on its banking system and this will harm the country's growth
Thu, Feb 22, 2018
Retirement fund body EPFO has lowered the rate of interest on employees provident fund to 8.55 per cent for its over 6-crore subscribers for 2017-18, from 8.65 per cent in the previous fiscal.
Fri, Feb 16, 2018
The Modi government is reportedly working on a strategy to help lower-level employees of pay matrix level 1 to 5 under 7th Pay Commission.
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