New Delhi: Indian Olympic Association Treasurer Sahdev Yadav on Tuesday hit back at president PT Usha for claiming that IOA Executive Committee members were not agreeing on a proposal to felicitate Paris Olympics medal-winners, saying her assertion is a “blatant lie”. Usha on Monday said that it was “deeply concerning” that the EC members failed … Read more
Last Updated: September 29, 2024, 23:06 IST Twenty more employees have also been shifted from their current offices to other tehsils or districts over complaints. (File) The action was taken to ensure transparency in the ongoing assembly elections in the Union Territory. Twenty-three government employees were suspended and services of six ad-hoc and casual labourers … Read more
Haryana Election 2024 | Catch The Haryana Poll Pulse With News18 | Haryana Polls | Reporters ProjectWith Haryana Assembly elections less than two weeks away, both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress have released their manifestos and launched star campaigners to the ground. The Congress, upbeat after its 2024 general elections performance, is raring … Read more
Currently, the ECI team, under Chief Election Commissioner of India Rajiv Kumar, is in Mumbai to review the poll preparedness in the state where elections are due. (PTI File) The current or 14th term of the Maharashtra assembly would end on November 26, 2024. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Saturday said that the elections … Read more
Reported By: Nivedita Singh Last Updated: September 21, 2024, 12:11 IST Tral (43.56%) was the seat with lowest voter turnout across the 24 assemblies. (PTI) The six seats where women outnumbered men in voter turnout were — Bhadarwah, Doda, Doda West, Inderwal, Kishtwar, and Kokernag A total of 24 out of 90 assembly seats in … Read more
NEW DELHI: The frontrunner was the chosen one. In an expected turn of events, the AAP legislative party on Tuesday elected finance and education minister Atishi, 43, as its leader, paving the way for her to become the eighth chief minister of Delhi.Outgoing Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal later met lieutenant governor VK Saxena at Raj … Read more
New Delhi: Even with Delhi’s CM Arvind Kejriwal announcing his intent to resign this week, it is unlikely that the poll schedule for the national capital region will be advanced in any major way, ET has learnt. The reason being that the revision of Delhi’s electoral rolls is yet to begin. The poll panel, while … Read more
BJP leader Anil Vij on Sunday defended the Election Commission of India’s decision to postpone the Haryana Assembly polls date from October 1 to October 5. He said that the dates have been revised in the interest of people. Vij slammed the Congress for criticising the EC’s move, saying that it is the reflection of … Read more
Ajit Prasad, the son of Faizabad MP Awadhesh Prasad, is likely to be the Samajwadi Party candidate from Milkipur constituency in the upcoming assembly bypolls, party leaders said on Sunday. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav held a meeting with party leaders and workers of Ayodhya’s Mikipur assembly constituency and discussed the name of Ajit Prasad as … Read more
The BJP, which has the odds stacked against it with ten years of anti-incumbency sentiments, fears a substantial drop in voting percentage may dent its electoral prospects. (Representational image: ANI) September 28 and 29 fall in a weekend and the date of polling on October 1 is followed by Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday the … Read more
