Ever wondered why electronic voting machines, used in four Lok Sabha elections and 127 assembly polls since 2004, are not deployed in polls to elect the President and Vice President of India, members of Rajya Sabha, and members of state legislative councils?The EVMs are based on a technology where they work as aggregator of votes […]
Voting for the presidential election in which NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is pitted against joint opposition pick Yashwant Sinha began on Monday.Polling began at 10 am and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first to cast his vote. The voting process would conclude at 5 pm. Nearly 4,800 elected MPs and MLAs are entitled […]
Match-winning performances by Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya gifted India a memorable 2-1 series win against England in the third ODI at Old Trafford in Manchester, on Sunday. Chasing a target of 260 runs, Pant hammered an unbeaten knock of 125 runs off 113 balls, which also turned out to be his maiden ODI ton. […]
The government held an all-party meeting on Sunday, ahead of the Monsoon session of the Parliament, which begins on Monday, to formulate a strategy to maximise the productivity of the House along with addressing the concerns of the Opposition during the course of the session. The meeting, called by parliamentary affairs minister Pralhad Joshi, is […]
With 20,528 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,37,50,599, while the active cases increased to 1,43,449, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday.The death toll climbed to 5,25,709 with 49 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise […]
An Indigo flight was diverted to Karachi in Pakistan due to a “technical defect “, local news agencies reported on Sunday, the second such incident involving an unscheduled landing in less than two weeks.The flight was to fly to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates from the southern city of Hyderabad. After the pilot of […]
Setting aside buzz over Vice-Predential candidate, BJP president JP Nadda has announced West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as BJP-led NDA candidate for the post.Jagdeep Dhankhar is a “kisan putra” (son of farmer) who established himself as “people’s governor”, BJP chief J P Nadda said. The decision was taken at BJP parliamentary board meeting.Prime Minister Narendra […]
Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) prices were reduced by 2.2 per cent Saturday, reflecting a fall in international oil prices. Oil marketing companies, or OMCs, cut ATF, or fuel used in aircraft and helicopters, prices by ₹3,084.94 per kilolitre to ₹1,38,147.93 per kl – per a notification by state-run retailers. This is only the second time […]
Activist Teesta Setalvad was enacting a larger conspiracy to destabilise an elected Gujarat government soon after a train in Godhra was set in fire in 2002, and had received financial assistance from a top leader of a rival political party, the state government’s special investigation team (SIT) has said. In its affidavit in the city […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday unveiled the Bundelkhand Expressway in Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh. The 296 kilometres-long four-lane Bundelkhand Expressway has been constructed at a cost of around ₹14,850 crore rupees under the Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA). The foundation stone of the expressway was laid by the prime minister in […]