Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa announced that a special voter registration drive was conducted on Saturday at all polling stations across the state. The purpose of this drive was to include names of eligible citizens left out of the electoral rolls for assembly constituencies, as well as young people registering to vote…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday reviewed Delhi Police’s preparedness to handle large gatherings and other law-and-order readiness, meeting top officers and Chief Minister Rekha Gupta. The meeting came on the heels of a series of protests rocking the national capital -– first against ex-education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the NEET fiasco,…
New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday lashed out at the Congress over the INDIA bloc’s upcoming rally in Delhi, alleging that Rahul Gandhi is “adamant” on holding the event on November 1 to rub salt in the wounds of the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters here,…
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said the expansion and reshuffle of his council of ministers will take place in the first two to three days of next week. Speaking to reporters here, Abdullah said he had sought time from Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha for the exercise. The chief minister met…
New Delhi: The Chamber of Trade and Industry (CTI) has urged Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to postpone the INDIA bloc’s November 1 rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan until after November 10, warning that it could disrupt business worth Rs 10,000 crore during the peak Diwali shopping season. In a letter to Gandhi, the Leader of…
Nanded: An estimated voter turnout of 59.81 per cent was recorded in Nanded district on Friday in the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad) Graduates’ constituency polls, officials said. Voting took place from 8 am to 4 pm, they added. Of the 36,687 registered voters in Nanded district, 21,942 exercised their franchise at 120 polling stations, officials said….
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry will conduct a first-of-its-kind joint training with the Army to build a civil defence network of around 60,000 volunteers in 12 states and Union Territories (UTs) as part of a pilot project. In the first phase, a three-day specialised training will be given for civil defence master trainers from…
Lucknow: Voters cast ballots for 11 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (MLC), comprising five graduate and six teachers’ constituencies, on Friday, with the contest seen as a prestige battle between the ruling BJP and the Samajwadi Party. According to official data, the turnout stood at 55.24 per cent till 4.00 pm. The Gorakhpur-Faizabad…
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry has extended for the second time the deployment of 273 Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) companies in the national capital till October 31 in view of the possibility of “flash protests” by political and other groups, official sources said on Friday. The companies were brought to Delhi for the…
New Delhi: A march against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls began in central Delhi on Friday, with participants heading towards the Election Commission of India (ECI) headquarters to protest against the alleged deletion of voters. The march, called by the Delhi Coordination Committee of People Against SIR — a people’s collective —…
