RAIPUR: To ensure a comfortable, and secure environment for the women voters within the state, more than 500 polling centers named Sangwari booths have been created which will be completely managed by the female polling workers for the second and third phase polling. This arrangement aims to encourage greater participation of women in the electoral…
NEW DELHI: The Northern Angami constituency in Nagaland witnessed history as Government Middle School transformed into the state’s first polling station managed entirely by women officers.Despite facing a minor setback with a malfunctioning voting machine, the atmosphere remained serene and orderly at the polling station in Chedema village. People patiently queued up to exercise their…
NEW DELHI: Google has unveiled a new Doodle to commemorate the start of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, which began in India on Friday. The first phase of the elections is underway, with millions of Indians participating in the democratic process to determine whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi will secure a consecutive third term in…
NEW DELHI: With 16.63 crore voters ready to decide the fate of 1625 candidates, India is all set to kickstart the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with Phase 1 on Friday.The high-voltage electioneering for the biggest Phase came to an end at 5pm on Wednesday with the commencement of a 48-hour silence period, as per the…
NEW DELHI: All 39 seats of Tamil Nadu will be going to the polls on April 19 in the first phase of the mammoth seven-phase 2024 Lok Sabha elections that will conclude with the results being declared on June 4. The BJP is hoping to make major headway in a state that has never given…
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With the first phase of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 set to start tomorrow (April 19), the Election Commission of India (ECI) has already started printing and sending the Voter Information Slip (VIS) to registered voters whose names are in the electoral roll (Read: How to check your name in the electoral roll).For those unaware,…
RAIPUR: In apparent retaliation for the Kanker operation, Maoists murdered a BJP deputy sarpanch in neighbouring Narayanpur district late Tuesday, two days before Bastar constituency votes in the Lok Sabha elections.Pancham Das Manikpuri is the ninth BJP functionary/worker to be murdered by Maoists since Feb last year. Naxals accused him of working for police.The killing…
NEW DELHI: All BJP and NDA candidates contesting the first phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 19 got a pleasant surprise on Wednesday as they received a personalised letter written by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PM Modi’s letter, written on the auspicious occasion of Ram Navami, starts with a praise of the individual candidate…
RAIPUR: Two days before Bastar constituency goes for Lok Sabha elections, Maoists on Tuesday killed a deputy sarpanch who was also a BJP worker, in Narayanpur district. The incident took place in village Dandvan of Farasgaon around 11 pm on Tuesday when armed cadres broke the door of deputy sarpanch’s house and killed him in…
