DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand HC has put the upcoming panchayat polls on hold, pointing out that the gazette notification on reservation rules had not been issued by govt. A division bench of Chief Justice G Narendar and Justice Alok Mahra sought a detailed explanation from the authorities in this regard.The court pointed out that the state EC…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission has revised its standard operating procedures (SOPs) for post-result checking of burnt memory or microcontroller of EVM (EVM C&V), allowing the candidates who finished second or third, to also opt for a mock poll on the selected EVM units, in addition to the simple diagnostic check already offered.As per the earlier…
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday met his party’s district unit presidents and top functionaries to chart out preparations for the crucial local body elections across Maharashtra later this year.The polls will cover 29 municipal corporations, where ward delimitation has already begun, along with 32 zilla parishads, 336 panchayat samitis and…
NEW DELHI: After repeated attacks on the Election Commission by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the chief electoral officer of Maharashtra on Monday advised the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha to download the voter rolls of the Maharashtra legislative elections from its website — “free of cost”.Hours after Rahul asked the EC to specify…
Italians vote over two days starting Sunday on referendums that would make it easier for children born in Italy to foreigners to obtain citizenship, and on providing more job protection. But apparently low public awareness risks rendering the votes invalid if turnout is not high enough. Campaigners for the change in the citizenship law say…
Chirag Paswan (file photo) NEW DELHI: Union Minister Chirag Paswan on Sunday confirmed he will contest the Bihar assembly elections, due later this year.The Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief made the announcement at a rally in Ara in Bhojpur district where he sounded his party’s poll bugle.“I will contest the assembly polls in Bihar….
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Malviya on Saturday hit back at leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi over his allegations of Maharashtra poll rigging. Terming the Congress leader’s claims “straight out of George Soros’ playbook”, Malviya called out Rahul’s “repeated attempts” to “sow seeds of doubt and dissension” in the minds…
Centrist Rafal Trzaskowski is narrowly leading nationalist Karol Nawrocki in Poland’s presidential race as the official results are still awaited. The exit polls projected the Polish centrist presidential candidate has the upper hand over the nationalist opponent. Rafal Trzaskowski, however, declared victory in Poland’s presidential election on Sunday. “We won,” Trzaskowski told his cheering supporters…
South Koreans turned out in record numbers for early voting on Thursday ahead of next week’s snap presidential election, official data showed, as both leading candidates urged voters to back them to change a country in crisis. The June 3 election comes after months of political turmoil and a power vacuum following the ouster of…
NEW DELHI: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadavon Tuesday pledged a series of welfare schemes if his party returns to power in Bihar in the assembly polls scheduled for later this year. Taking a cue from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s playbook, Tejashwi announced a monthly cash transfer of Rs 2,500 to women under a proposed initiative called…