Assembly and LS elections will be held simultaneously in Odisha in 4 phases, starting from Phase One on 13 May with the final Phase on 1 June. Results will be announced on 4 June.
The last two decades of Lok Sabha elections saw UPA’s rise and fall, Left’s decimation, and BJP’s juggernaut. Now there’s a new law to choose election commissioners.
Over 960 million electors, 470 million of them women, will soon elect 543 Lok Sabha MPs by casting their ballots in 1.2 million booths overseen by 15 million officials across 28 states and nine Union territories in a multi-phase election.
This is contrary to earlier reports of 3-4 formula between Congress & AAP in Delhi. AAP MP Sandeep Pathak expressed disappointment over lack of progress in seat-sharing talks.
Ex-wrestler who now is in BJP camp hosted get-together at her residence-cum-office in Charkhi Dadri. Says she is willing to fight parliamentary or assembly elections.
BJP has no problem with dynasts or with those it accused of being corrupt as long as they are willing to join the party, or, at the very least, align with the new NDA.
It used to be Tatas and Birlas in the loose political rhetoric of the 1970s and the 1980s. Today, it is Adani and Ambani in the heated Lok Sabha election campaign.
About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.
Chiman Singh, injured in 1971 India-Pakistan war, was discharged as non-pensioner in 1972. In his petition, he states denial of pension is contrary to settled law.
Even in the weeks leading up to Chamkila’s assassination there were massacres every other day. To airbrush all of this is sheer intellectual cowardice if not a crime.
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