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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…