Tejaswi alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah had ‘flouted all the rules’ and claimed the CEC had acted according to their wishes. NEW DELHI: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday accused the Election Commission of being misused to benefit the BJP and alleged that election rules had been changed…
‘UP ke ladke’ vs each other? SP-Congress spar over who can beat BJP in 2027 NEW DELHI: The “UP ke ladke” bonhomie is beginning to look less like a united front and more like a contest for the upper hand, with Congress and Samajwadi Party leaders trading jabs over who can take on the BJP…
Akhtar also pointed to differences in access to healthcare. She said people in JKUT were able to access health benefits under national schemes even in remote areas, while similar access remained a distant prospect for people in PoK. NEW DELHI: Kashmiri socio-political activist Tasleema Akhtar has raised concerns over the treatment of people in Pakistan-occupied…
She said that INDIA bloc will meet soon amid concerns over the “issue” NEW DELHI: Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday demanded fresh Assembly elections in West Bengal using the pre-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) voter list while announcing pan-India protests against chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, after a report claimed two Election…
Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav addresses a press conference at the party office in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday questioned the functioning of the Election Commission, saying governments formed during a period when the poll panel was not acting impartially were “unconstitutional”.Addressing a press conference…
He said opposition parties had questioned the functioning of the three election commissioners both when they appeared to agree and now when correspondence between them has emerged. NEW DELHI: The BJP on Wednesday defended the election commission over the row surrounding an alleged split among the poll panel’s commissioners, with party MP Sambit Patra saying…
File photo: Organ donation (AI-generated) NEW DELHI: An 18-year-old who had spent nearly two years waiting for a kidney, undergoing dialysis twice a week and with no family donor, received not one but two kidneys from a single brain-dead donor on Monday — after the organs were airlifted from Chandimandir to Delhi. Both kidneys were…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday announced the names of state incharges for different states, with party leader Smriti Irani given the responsibility of Chhattisgarh and Haryana.Vinod tawde has been appointed as the incharge of UP, while Vinay Sahastrabuddhe was named Delhi incharge.Here is the full list State/UT Incharge Co-incharge(s) Andaman & Nicobar Jai…
EC negates report of differences in commission over SIR NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Wednesday conceded that “operational queries or inputs” were raised by election commissioners S S Sandhu and Vivek Joshi on matters including the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise, but insisted that these pertained to the draft stage and were “part of…
A two-judge SC bench has requested the CJI to explore setting up a permanent 5-judge Constitutional Bench. A two-judge Supreme Court bench, comprising Justice SC Sharma and Justice Datta, has requested the Chief Justice of India to explore the possibility of setting up a permanent five-judge Constitutional Bench to deal with questions involving interpretation of the…