NEW DELHI: University Grants Commission (UGC) announced on Thursday that central universities have the option to conduct their own entrance exams or admit students based on marks in the qualifying exam if seats remain vacant in undergraduate and postgraduate courses after admissions through Common University Entrance Test (CUET). It emphasised that CUET scores will remain…
BHUBANESWAR: The BJP won for the first time in 45 assembly constituencies and nine Lok Sabha (LS) seats in Odisha in the recently concluded simultaneous polls, an analysis by TOI of the results revealed. The party won a total of 78 seats in the 147-member assembly and 20 out of 21 LS seats in the…
NEW DELHI: Even though the BJP is leading on around 240 seats, much less than the 303 seats it won in 2019, its vote share has seen only a marginal dip, meaning it has been unable to convert its vote share into seats this time.In 2019, the BJP had secured around 37.36% of the total…
BHUBANESWAR: An exit poll by Times Now-ETG predicted on Monday a near-repeat of the 2019 landslide for Naveen Patnaik’s BJD in the Odisha assembly polls, differing from other projections that show the party either neck and neck with challenger BJP or not ahead by much.BJD is likely to win 100 to 115 seats in the…
BHUBANESWAR: An exit poll by Times Now-ETG predicted on Monday a near-repeat of the 2019 landslide for Naveen Patnaik’s BJD in the Odisha assembly polls, differing from other projections that show the party either neck and neck with challenger BJP or not ahead by much.BJD is likely to win 100 to 115 seats in the…
After five rounds of polling, an analysis of turnout shows that of the 409 seats where data can be compared with 2019, nearly two-thirds, or 258, have witnessed a lower percentage turnout this year and 88 (more than one in five) have seen even the absolute number of votes drop from five years ago.Seats with…
The first-past-the-post system of voting — where electors cast a vote for a single candidate, and the candidate with the most votes wins — can often lead to counterintuitive outcomes. A party’s gain or loss of seats can many times be disproportional to its vote share. If a party crosses its ‘threshold votes’, it gains…
