NEW DELHI: Delhi HC listed for hearing on Friday a PIL that seeks disqualification of PM Narendra Modi from contesting elections for allegedly violating MCC during his campaign speech in UP’s Pilibhit on April 9.The petition, filed by advocate Anand S Jondhale last week, accuses Modi of seeking votes in the name of “god and…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed its unwillingness to pass any order regarding electronic voting machines (EVMs) only on the basis of suspected hacking and manipulation, while stating that it would not flinch from ensuring steps for improvement if it saw the need for any.A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said…
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GUWAHATI: Not one of over four lakh voters in eastern Nagaland turned up in elections to the state’s lone Lok Sabha seat on Friday following a boycott and shutdown call by Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO) over the Centre’s “failure” to fulfil its long-standing demand to create a separate zone with greater autonomy.The 20 MLAs…
ISLAMABAD: Ahead of the by-elections in different districts of Pakistan’s Punjab, the provincial government has imposed Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), Pakistan-based ARY News reported. According to details, Section 144 of the CrPC was imposed in districts where by-elections are being held, including Lahore, Kasur and Chakwal. Section 144 of the CrPC…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court was instrumental in reversing Election Commission’s 2012 reluctance into acceptance of the importance of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail in electronic voting machines (EVMs), first deployed in Nagaland’s Noksen Assembly bye-elections on Sep 4, 2013 without detecting any discrepancy between votes cast and VVPAT slips.In its October 2013 judgment, a…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hailed the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) action, claiming that the anti-money laundering agency has attached assets worth Rs 1 lakh crore during his tenure unlike pre-2014 period when the total assets attached was only worth Rs 5,000 crore.In an interview with the news agency ANI, PM Modi said…
BHUBANESWAR: This election season, most bail applications moved in several lower courts in Odisha have a common, yet unusual prayer from undertrial prisoners – “My Lord, my client may kindly be considered for bail to enable him to cast his vote“. Though the number of such petitions and whether bail was granted on the ground…
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday said the ruling BJP has been raising the “closed issue” of Katchatheevu to gain political ground ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, which would “gravely harm the interests of the millions of Tamil-speaking people in Sri Lanka“.Chidambaram said the issue may create a situation of confrontation…
‘A test for all of us’ is how Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru described the first general elections in India, in his radio broadcast on Nov 22, 1951, 8.30pm. “This is our first election on an adult franchise. The standard we set now will act as a precedent and govern future elections.”In Madras, the elections were…
