Soon after announcing assembly poll schedule Sunday, Election Commission transferred 44 IAS, IPS, other civil servants in 4 states, including Bengal, ‘without consulting state govt’.
CJI Surya Kant-led bench says it was forced to make the arrangement in view of the blame game of allegations & counter-allegations between two constitutional functionaries.
EC’s submissions were in response to a petition by the Sanatani Sangsad, which has come into the limelight for seeking deployment of the CAPF in West Bengal for the SIR process.
The theme for the conference is 'Democracy for an inclusive, peaceful, resilient, and sustainable world'. US, Mauritius, Brazil, and South Africa among participants.
Sappal & his family moved a year ago to Noida from UP’s Sahibabad constituency. He said EC has no system in place for voters who have relocated, forcing them to enrol as new voters.
Election Commission says in affidavit to Supreme Court that petitioner's claim of mass disenfranchisement of voters through SIR was to 'serve vested political interest'.
In plea filed after multi-party meet, DMK claims EC is acting as ‘de facto NRC’, seeking to quash its 27 October notification for 'violating' Constitution.
Beyond the immediate protection of Israel and its borders, which the USA could reasonably commit itself to, it did not need to get into every war in the Muslim world.
When conflict with Iran ends, says the report, area’s key players are likely to reexamine longstanding assumptions & alliances as they determine how best to advance their interests.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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