The apex court was informed that parties want a one-week extension of the deadline, claiming that over 1,75,000 claims were made before and after the August 22 court order.
American thinker Thomas Sowell got it right, and it is time India's politicians and social activists realised that “solutions” lie in the spaces between two extremes.
The Home Ministry has flagged the glitch; the process to remove their names from voter list has been initiated. Both women are elderly and have difficulty communicating clearly.
The Election Commission informed the court that its public notices state voters excluded from draft roll may submit Aadhaar copies along with claims if aggrieved by non-inclusion.
Speaking at a press conference, the Congress leader likened the bill to times when kings removed anyone at will, saying, ‘There’s no concept of what an elected person is.’
Without naming Gandhi, Chief Election Commissioner says words like ‘vote chori’ are an insult to the Constitution, and voters are ‘being targeted by placing gun on EC’s shoulders’.
The Election Commission's arrogant functioning and its failure to ensure the integrity and fairness of elections could well be the undoing of India’s electoral democracy.
ECI published the draft voter list after the SIR exercise in poll-bound Bihar on 1 August. The final list will be released after the one month given for claims and objections.
Tejashwi's comments came amid protests over Special Intensive Revision. Several Opposition MPs arrived for protest wearing white T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan '124 Not Out'.
A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.
Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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