HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) is planning to contest 10-12 seats in the upcoming Delhi elections. So far, it has announced only two candidates – Tahir Hussain from Mustafabad and Shafur Rehman, who is the Jamia Alumni Association (AAJMI) president, from Okhla.AIMIM’s Delhi unit, in consultation with party president and Hyderabad MP…
South Korea’s parliament impeached acting President Han Duck-soo on Friday over a short-lived martial law, plunging the country deeper into political chaos, as the Constitutional Court said it would swiftly trial suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol. The impeachment of Han, who has been acting president since Yoon was impeached on December 14 for declaring martial…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday claimed that, in a mandatory count, there was no mismatch found in the Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trial (VVPAT) slips and the votes polled in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during the recently concluded Maharashtra assembly elections.The commission said as per the guidelines it is required…
NEW DELHI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar raised concerns over possible discrepancies in the votes recorded by Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during the recent Maharashtra Assembly elections. However, he added that he did not have concrete evidence to back these claims.“There is some difference in the votes of EVMs, but at the moment,…
Britain’s parliament voted in favour of a new bill to legalise assisted dying on Friday, opening the way for months of further debate on an issue that has divided the country and raised questions about the standard of palliative care. After a passionate debate in the House of Commons, the lower house of parliament, 330…
As California is yet to officially announce its US presidential election results even 19 days after polling, billionaire businessman Elon Musk took a swipe at the process, drawing a stark comparison to the mammoth voting processes that India has successfully undertaken during the Lok Sabha elections. Musk pointed out that India counted 640 million votes…
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra deputy chief minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Ajit Pawar on Saturday clinched a decisive victory from his traditional Baramati assembly constituency, defeating his nephew Yugendra Pawar of the NCP (Sharad Pawar) faction by a margin of over 1 lakh votes. While Sharad Pawar was not directly in the fray, the…
PALAKKAD: In a major boost to the opposition Congress-led UDF, its candidate Rahul Mamkootathil retained the Palakkad Assembly seat, winning the by-poll by a significant margin of 18,840 votes, despite challenges posed by the BJP-led NDA and CPI(M)-headed LDF. Mamkootathil secured 58,389 votes against BJP’s C Krishnakumar who garnered 39,549 votes, according to the Election…
NEW DELHI: Peasants And Workers Party of India’s candidate Babasaheb Annasahen Deshmukh is leading by 9,903 votes on the Sangole assembly constituency.Deshmukh by the end of the 18 of 23 rounds of counting received 91,656 votes while Shiv Sena’s Shahajibapu Rajaram Patil received 78,213 votes.Sangole assembly constituency is one of the 288 constituencies in Maharashtra’s…
In the Kolhapur South, Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Amal Mahadik is leading against Congress’s Ruturaj Patil by 15,374 votes, with 14 out of 23 rounds of counting already done.The Kolhapur South seat was previously won by Indian National Congress party candidate Ruturaj Sanjay Patil in the 2019 Assembly elections.As per the initial results, the Mahayuti…