New Delhi: The landfall process of Cyclone ‘Nisarga’ will continue for another hour as the rear part of its cloud is still over the sea, the India Meteorological Department said on Wednesday afternoon. #CycloneNisargaUpdate DAY 0-3rd June 2020,1400 hrs#CycloneNisarga landed Visuals few minutes ago from Uran,Raigad Dist of Maharashtra Video10@NDRFHQ @ndmaindia @PMOIndia @HMOIndia @BhallaAjay26 @PIBHomeAffairs […]
Category: LS POLLS 2019
15 parties got fewer votes than NOTA in 2019 polls
New Delhi: Of the 36 political parties, whose representatives were elected to the 17th Lok Sabha, 15 got fewer votes than NOTA. Many of these parties contested only a handful of seats. Introduced in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the none of the above (NOTA) option, which indicates disapproval of all the candidates in a […]
There were no ghost voters during Lok Sabha polls, says EC
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Saturday made it clear that there were no ghost voters during the recently held Lok Sabha polls as the provisional voter turnout data reported on the EC website is only the tentative number of voters. “The provisional voter turnout data reported on EC website is only the tentative number of […]
Mamata accuses BJP of manipulating EVMs, proposes mass movement
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday held her party Trinamool Congress’ core committee meeting where she accused the BJP of manipulating the EVMs in the Lok Sabha polls and asked her party members to initiate a mass movement against it, a Trinamool Congress source said. She questioned how BJP President Amit Shah and […]
17th Lok Sabha will miss prominent faces, strong voices
New Delhi: In last three decades of India’s electoral history they were the strong voices of their party, states and respective constituencies in Lok Sabha but their voices will not be heard in the 17th Lok Sabha, which gave a decisive mandate to Narendra Modi government. Prominent among them, who influenced the national politics for decades, […]
Expect the unexpected from Modi in Camelot 2.0
New Delhi: With a gargantuan majority at his disposal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a huge gene pool to choose from and reward as he goes about appointing members to his new Camelot. However, with PM Modi, no one can second-guess him. At the same time, speculation is rife in Delhi’s political circles on the composition […]
131 of BJP’s 303 Lok Sabha members are first timers
New Delhi: Of the BJP’s 303 Lok Sabha members who got elected in the just-concluded elections, 131 are first timers and include party President Amit Shah. The list also includes former union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and celebrities from sports to film fraternity like Sunny Deol, Ravi Kishan, Gautam Gambhir and Hans Raj Hans. There are […]
Congress in deep trouble, CWC meet likely in four days
New Delhi: Reeling under the impact of poll debacle, the Congress is in deep trouble, with party chief Rahul Gandhi insisting on quitting the post amid a series of resignations, setting the stage for a likely meeting of its highest decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee (CWC), in the next four days. Amid indications that the […]
Bengal sends 31 crorepatis to Lok Sabha, 5 more than 2014
Kolkata: Of the 42 elected Lok Sabha MPs from West Bengal, 31 are crorepatis, five more from than the 2014 tally, while 23 parliamentarians have declared criminal cases against them, a study said. Compared to the 26 MPs in 2014 who had assets worth over Rs 1 crore, 31 out of the 42 MPs in 2019 […]
RJD MLA asks Tejashwi to quit as Bihar opposition leader
Patna: An opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) legislator Maheshwar Yadav on Monday demanded that Bihar opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav should resign on moral grounds after the RJD-led Grand Alliance was routed by the ruling NDA in the Lok Sabha polls. A legislator from the Gaighat assembly seat in Muzaffarpur, Maheshwar Yadav also targeted jailed RJD […]