March 17, 2024 10:53 pm | Updated 10:53 pm IST - Belagavi Deputy Commissioner and District Electoral Officer Nitesh Patil has asked all officers to take steps to ensure free and fair general elections. At a meeting of officers after the announcement by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the …...Read More
Belagavi Deputy Commissioner asks officers to strictly enforce Model Code of Conduct
As some parties do not disclose donors, SC had sought their ‘detailed particulars’ in April 2019 order
March 17, 2024 10:40 pm | Updated 10:56 pm IST - NEW DELHI A second set of data published on Sunday by the Election Commission on electoral bonds purchased and redeemed by political parties prior to April 12, 2019 show that many of them did not disclose the identities of …...Read More
Smart Vision Glasses donated to the visually challenged
March 17, 2024 10:37 pm | Updated 10:42 pm IST - CHENNAI The Rotary Club of Chennai Coastal (District 3232) provided smart vision glasses to 11 vision impaired persons with the support of the National Federation of the Blind. These glasses based on artificial intelligence will assist the visually challenged …...Read More
2,378 polling booths in Kalaburagi constituency
March 17, 2024 10:28 pm | Updated 10:28 pm IST - KALABURAGI As the Election Commission of India announced that polling for the Kalaburagi Lok Sabha seat is slated to be held on May 7, Kalaburagi Deputy Commissioner B. Fauzia Taranum, addressing a press conference here on Saturday, said that …...Read More
In Northeast, only Sikkim parties received funds through electoral bonds
March 17, 2024 10:25 pm | Updated 10:38 pm IST - GUWAHATI GUWAHATI Only two parties from the North-East – both from Sikkim – received funds through the electoral bonds scheme introduced in 2018, two data sets five years apart uploaded by the Election Commission of India (ECI) revealed. According …...Read More
R.S. Praveen to join BRS on Monday
March 17, 2024 10:24 pm | Updated 10:50 pm IST - Hyderabad Former president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Telangana unit RS Praveen Kumar has decided to join the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) on Monday. Earlier, he held a meeting with his supporters and sought their opinion. He thanked …...Read More
SSC exams start today in Telangana
March 17, 2024 10:20 pm | Updated 10:20 pm IST - Hyderabad The SSC public examinations will commence on Monday in 2,676 centres across Telangana and the officials have asked the students to start early and report early to avoid traffic delays. Though the exams will begin at 9.30 a.m. …...Read More
Two arrested for stealing gold
March 17, 2024 10:15 pm | Updated 10:16 pm IST - Bengaluru The Girinagar police on Sunday arrested two habitual offenders from Chennai who used to steal gold valuables from jewellery stores while diverting the attention of the staff. The accused, identified as Mubarak and Asghar, are habitual offenders involved …...Read More
The custodial death case behind
March 17, 2024 10:13 pm | Updated March 18, 2024 12:59 pm IST - CHENNAI Rasakannu and Parvathi were a tribal couple, with four children, making a living as agricultural labourers, living in huts near Mudhanai in Virudhachalam taluk in South Arcot district (now Cuddalore). On March 20, 1993, Rasakannu, …...Read More
BJP did not maintain names, particulars of electoral bond donors
March 17, 2024 10:11 pm | Updated 10:18 pm IST - NEW DELHI The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in its letter to the Election Commission (EC) sharing other details of the donations received via electoral bonds till September 2023, had not disclosed the names of donors, pointing out that those …...Read More
