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Haryana BJP urges EC to defer assembly election, cites holidays around poll dateThe Haryana BJP asked the Election Commission to delay the October 1 Assembly elections, citing concerns about low voter turnout due to sur...
ET Graphics: A disturbed Indian neighbourhoodFormer PM Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan after a four-year exile, with his brother Shahbaz Sharif taking office as Prime Minister. Imran...
PM's meditation plan may not invite ECI action due to multi-phase elections and 2019 precedentThe Election Commission is unlikely to take action against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meditation plan at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial ...
Census, much more than a sensibilityThe census is crucial for many reasons. Data matters, especially in a country with a large and diverse population like India, several devel...
Opposition questions special session, bid for synched pollsOpposition parties have raised concerns about the government's motives for convening a special session of Parliament and the feasibility of...
Census, updation of NPR delayed for over three yearsThe Census and National Population Register (NPR) have been postponed for more than three years, with no fresh notifications from the Regis...
Postponing polls weakens democratic system, let MCD elections take place: Arvind Kejriwal to PM ModiHis remarks came after the Delhi State Election Commission sought the advice of legal experts on whether it can still hold polls for the th...
Why didn’t High Court put Uttar Pradesh panchayat polls on hold?Why is it that the UP polls stand out? Because the high court through an order on May 7 put it on record that the state election commission...
Pandemic to shave off 40% operating profit of private hospitals: ReportSince the pandemic-driven lockdowns that began late March, hospitals have been on a crisis path as people began to avoid going to hospitals...
Maharashtra shares precedents as Governor examines Uddhav's nominationThe Cabinet had sought the 'nomination' of Thackeray in view of the postponement of the "elections" to the Council due to the Covid-19 emer...
Andhra Pradesh shunts Covid-19 whistle-blower bureaucrat who deferred pollsLate on Friday, AP government issued orders removing the state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar, whose decision to postpone lo...
TN assembly polls: Disqualify candidates in money distribution row, demand partiesBJP and CPI(M) demanded the nomination of fresh candidates in Aravakurichi and Thanjavur constituencies where huge sums of cash had been se...
Aditya Verma appeals to BCCI officials to hold Annual General Meeting in SeptemberPetitioner in IPL spot-fixing scandal Aditya Verma urged BCCI's interim president Shivlal Yadav to conduct board's Annual General Meeting i...
Gopalakrishnan pitches for passage of key economic billsS Gopalakrishnan today called for passage of key bills in Parliament to keep the momentum in economic activities, notwithstanding the 2014 ...
- General Budget likely on February 29, says Finance Ministry official
The government today indicated it will present the budget for 2012-13 on February 29, the assembly elections in five states notwithstanding.
- Budget as scheduled not a problem: SY Quraishi
The Union Budget for 2012-13 may be presented as usually scheduled on the last day of February next with both Government and EC not forseei...
- Indo-Thai FTA unlikely to take off this year
It seems unlikely that India and Thailand would graduate to a full-fledged free trade agreement (FTA) this year despite the successful impl...