Over 2 crore voters decided the electoral fate of 586 candidates in the fray today in the second phase of the election to 55 assembly seats in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh. Of the estimated 2.02 crore eligible voters, there are 1.08 crore male, 94 lakh female, and 1,269 third gender voters.In the second phase, 23,404 […]
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Monday claimed that his chopper was not allowed to fly to Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar because areas were declared as no-fly zones amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state. Channi was to attend a poll rally along with former Congress president Rahul Gandhi at Hoshiarpur. Gandhi was […]
Over 62 per cent polling was recorded in Uttarakhand where voting to 70 assembly seats spread over 13 districts concluded peacefully on Monday, officials said.T The polling percentage in the 2017 assembly elections in the state was 65.56 per cent.”Polling was held peacefully at the 11,697 polling booths across the state with 62.5 per cent […]
Goa on Monday registered a very high voter turnout of 78.94 per cent in polling for the 40 Assembly seats which passed off peacefully with no untoward incident reported from any part of the state which witnessed a multi-cornered contest, officials said. Electoral fate of 301 candidates were locked in EVMs which will be opened […]
Former Chief Minister and Punjab Lok Congress leader, Capt Amarinder Singh today said that country’s security and safeguarding the future of Punjab were two top most priorities for the state right now.He also had a dig at Congress leaders for saying that he had a good relationship with BJP leaders. “I don’t care”, he remarked […]
The Karnataka High Court on Monday adjourned hearing on petitions challenging hijab ban in schools and colleges till tomorrow, news agency ANI reported. During the hearing, advocate Dev Datt Kamat while appearing for the petitioners challenging ban argued that wearing headscarves is an essential practice of the Islamic faith. “The government order is in the teeth […]
Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC have been clamped around the 200-metre radius of all high schools within the city police commissionerate limits from Monday till February 19. The move is part of a precautionary measure in view of the hijab controversy. The high schools are reopening on Monday after the holiday declared […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that voting in the first phase of assembly elections and the trend in the second phase has made it clear that the Yogi Adityanath’s government is “coming in full swing.” Listing four trends from the UP assembly elections, PM Modi told a public gathering in Kanpur that people […]
The Centre has banned 54 Chinese apps over privacy, security, and espionage concerns, saying they were clones of previously taken down applications and obtained critical permissions to collect sensitive user data. As many as 267 apps were earlier blocked in 2020 citing privacy and security threats amid border tensions between India and China. Ravi Shankar […]