New Delhi: Former chief election commissioner S Y Quraishi on Tuesday claimed that the exit polls are patently illegal and they are happening before the eyes of the Election Commission (EC). Addressing the G V G Krishnamurthy Memorial Lecture here, he asked when the conduct of exit polls is banned during the “prohibited period” —…
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday reviewed arrangements and facilities in the Parliament House complex ahead of the Winter session beginning November 25. Birla inspected the Lok Sabha chamber, corridors, lobbies, waiting rooms, media facilities and other key areas, the Lok Sabha secretariat said. Birla noted that several significant events will be…
Bhubaneshwar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are scheduled to attend the three-day All-India Conference of Director Generals/Inspector Generals of Police to be held in Bhubaneswar from November 29, official sources said on Tuesday. Apart from the PM and Union Home Minister, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and other senior…
Ranchi: Jharkhand is geared up for polling in 38 of the total 81 assembly seats in the second and final phase on Wednesday, when the electoral fate of 528 candidates, including Chief Minister Hemant Soren, his wife Kalpana Soren both (both JMM) and Leader of Opposition Amar Kumar Bauri (BJP) will be decided. The ruling…
Mumbai: The Bahujan Vikas Aghadi on Tuesday accused BJP general secretary Vinod Tawde of distributing Rs five crore to woo voters, a day before the Maharashtra assembly elections, a claim the BJP leader denied, saying he was only providing guidance to party workers on poll procedures. Videos of the “cash distribution”, many of them shot…
Lucknow: The stage is set for bypolls in nine assembly seats of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday with stakes high for both the BJP and the Samajwadi Party in the first electoral contest after the Lok Sabha polls. While the Congress is not contesting and supporting its INDIA bloc partner Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party…
Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Monday issued an order attaching Himachal Bhavan in Delhi after the Congress-led Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu government failed to pay electricity dues amounting to around Rs 150 crore. Himachal Bhavan is located at Mandi House in the national capital. The court has also directed the Principal Secretary of the…
New Delhi: Rishabh Pant on Tuesday rejected the legendary Sunil Gavaskar’s assessment that the India wicketkeeper-batter left Delhi Capitals due to disagreement over his retention fee ahead of the mega auction of the Indian Premier League. Pant, who captained Delhi Capitals last year after making a comeback from a horrific car accident, is among the…
Perth: A shattering defeat to New Zealand on home soil would have caused a “little bit of damage” to India’s confidence but Australia will not make the mistake of underestimating the visitors, said charismatic batter Marnus Labuschagne here on Tuesday. The world No. 2 India are heading into the five-Test Border-Gavaskar series, starting here on…
New Delhi: Stakes could not be higher for several regional heavyweights in Maharashtra as the state goes to the polls on Wednesday in what promises to be a make-or-break election for satraps like Sharad Pawar, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, his predecessor Uddhav Thackeray and deputy CM Ajit Pawar. The two Pawars, Shinde and Thackeray are…
