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Ruling BJP all set to build magnificent Ram Mandir in south Karnataka
Ramnagar District In-Charge and Minister for Higher Education Dr C.N. Ashwath Narayan has confirmed that Ramnagar city would be developed as Ayodhya of south India. "There is 'Ram' in the name of the city Ramnagar. A Detailed Project Report (DPR) will be prepared sooner and next steps would be taken," he said. Ruling BJP has plans of inviting.
'Meghalaya CM doing family politics': Shah slams NPP
This is not the first time the BJP has slammed the NPP. Earlier, party president J.P. Nadda had also lashed out at the MDA government. Addressing two election rallies in Meghalaya's Rangsakona and Dalu, in a scathing attack on incumbent Chief Minister Sangma and former Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, Shah said that all the chief ministers in Meghalaya.
Women voters' turnout higher than men in Tripura polls
Election officials said that 87.63 per cent of the 28.14 lakh voters in Tripura exercised their franchise in Thursday's elections to the 60-member Assembly. "This 87.63 per cent turnout calculated on the basis of the votes polled in EVM (Electronic voting Machine) and excluding the votes of the postal ballot and service votes, cast by the polling, security personnel.
We reimagined, reinvented various aspects of governance: PM Modi
Addressing the Economic Times Global Business Summit, Modi said that the most significant part of governance has been that the Centre had "reimagined and reinvented for the poor" even as "many are busy in the relaunch of the same product without reimagination", he said while taking a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
Nominated members can't vote in Delhi mayoral polls, rules SC
The bench, also comprising Justices P.S. Narasimha and J.B. Pardiwala, also accepted AAP's plea that after the Mayor gets elected, he/she would preside over the elections of Deputy Mayor and members of the Standing Committee, and not the pro-tem presiding officer.
Eknath Shinde faction gets Shiv Sena party name, Bow and Arrow symbol
The EC observed that the current constitution of the Shiv Sena on which former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray was placing reliance is undemocratic. "While applying the 'Test of party Constitution', the Commission found that the party constitution on which the respondent (Uddhav Thackeray faction) was placing strong reliance is undemocratic," said the Commission in its 78-page order issued on Friday.
Lok Ayukta appointed, Delhi govt tells HC
A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad was hearing a plea filed in a form of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a direction to the city government to appoint a Lokayukta as promised by the party in its election manifesto of 2020. division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad.
Youths supporting IPS officer Vaibhav protest before Nitish Kumar
The protesters demanded from Nitish Kumar that the officer not be penalised him. The Bihar Home Ministry has served show cause notice to Vaibhav, the IG, Home Guards, after he uploaded a complaint against DG, Home Guards, Shobha Ahotkar on social media for airing internal departmental matters in the public domain. It has asked him to reply within 7 days.
Sitharaman slams KCR for calling $5 trillion economy a joke
She said she was requesting KCR with folded hands not to make jokes on the goal. The minister was speaking on the Amrit Kaal Budget organised by Doordarshan here. Addressing the Telangana Assembly on February 12, the Chief Minister had said that the BJP government's target of a $5 trillion economy became a joke, as after all the hype, India managed to become just a $3.1 trillion economy.
Final polling percentage in Tripura assembly polls will be 92 % : CEO
Voter turnout was 91.82 per cent and 89.38 per cent in 2013 and 2018 Assembly elections, respectively. The CEO said that when the voting officially ended at 4 p.m. in the afternoon, nine per cent of voters were in the queue in 1,600 polling stations across the state and they were being allowed to cast their votes as of late Thursday evening in a large number.
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