A 13-member full court read the judgment - a split verdict with eight in favor and five against - declaring that the decision of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the Peshawar High Court (PHC) to allocate reserved seats to the ruling coalition was unconstitutional."The Pakistan...
Mumbai: Till Friday afternoon, 203 MLAs have cast their votes in the biennial elections for 11 seats of Maharashtra Legislative Council.There are 12 candidates in the fray for 11 seats in the upper house of the state legislature, where the 274 sitting members of the Legislative Assembly form...
Boise: It's not just presidential candidates who are old.According to my own data, nearly 20 percent of members of the House and Senate are 70 years old or older, compared to about 6 percent who are under 40 years old.North Dakota voters recently approved a ballot initiative that would...
Mumbai: Voting for the biennial elections for 11 seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council began on Friday morning at the Vidhan Bhawan complex here.The first person to cast his vote through the secret ballot system was Shiv Sena's Sanjay Gaikwad.There are 12 candidates in the fray for 11...
Elections to the three-tier Gram Panchayats in Tripura will be held on August 8 and votes will be counted on August 12.State election commissioner Saradindu Chaudhuri, who announced the election schedule here on Wednesday, said the formal legal notification was issued on Thursday, with the...
In Islamabad, Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned until July 12 the ruling on a petition filed by the opposition Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) seeking its share of reserved seats in Parliament and assemblies. provincial.A 13-member bench headed by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa heard the...
New Delhi, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday claimed that the "disease of unemployment" has taken the form of an epidemic in India, and alleged that BJP-ruled states have become the "epicenter of this disease".His comments came after around 800 people turned up for a...
A day after the announcement of panchayat elections in Agartala, Tripura, 33 candidates of the Left Front submitted their nomination papers for West Tripura District Council and South Tripura District Council seats, a party leader said on Thursday.Senior CPI(M) leader Pabitra Kar said 33 Left...
A CBI team arrested Rocky from Jharkhand on Thursday when he was trying to flee to Nepal.Rocky, nephew of main leader Sanjeev Mukhiya, is a resident of Nalanda district. He was running a restaurant in Ranchi and was coordinating the operations from there.CBI is also searching for his uncle...
New Delhi: The CBI on Thursday arrested one of the alleged kingpins in the NEET-UG paper leak case who was absconding since the crackdown on irregularities in the entrance examination began, officials said.Rockey alias Rakesh Ranjan, who hails from Nalanda and is said to be a relative of...
New Delhi: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday met some NEET aspirants at his residence, amid a furious row over alleged irregularities in the conduct of this year's medical entrance exam.According to sources, the students raised issues such as the uncertainty prevailing...
GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said his government will "reconsider" its decision to change the pattern of recruitment exam for posts under Grade 3 and 4.“A government that listens! Based on the feedback received from various quarters regarding the sudden change...
"There is a general increase in the grades obtained by students, specifically in the range of 550 to 720. This increase is observed in all cities and centers. This is attributed to a 25 percent reduction in the curriculum," the Union government said, adding that Candidates scoring such high...
New Delhi: The Center on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that there was no indication of "massive malpractice" or localized pool of benefited candidates leading to abnormal scores in NEET-UG 2024.He said that the data analysis of NEET-UG 2024 results was done by IIT Madras and as per the...
The commission has agreed to certify the list of 200 senators and 99 reserved candidates, paving the way for newly elected lawmakers to enter the upper house of parliament, Commission Secretary-General Saveng Boonmi said at a press conference, Xinhua news agency reported. The path has been...
Latur, Several teacher candidates selected for appointment at Rayat Shikshan Sansthan after clearing the Teachers Aptitude and Intelligence Test (TAIT) on Wednesday met Maharashtra School Education Minister Deepak Kesarkar, demanding jobs.The candidates said that those who along with them have...
Nalagarh constituency recorded the highest number of votes at 78 per cent, followed by Hamirpur (67.7 per cent) and Dehra (65.42 per cent), according to the Election Commission of India.In the first four hours, a 30 percent turnout was recorded for three Assembly seats.As many as 13...
Shimla: Voting in the by-elections in three assembly constituencies in Himachal Pradesh was recorded between 63 per cent and 75 per cent, according to data shared by the state election department till 5 pm.It said that Nalagarh assembly constituency recorded the highest turnout at 75.22...
Till 1 pm on Wednesday, about 48 percent voting took place in the by-elections being held on three assembly seats of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.According to data shared by the state election department till 1 pm, Nalagarh assembly constituency recorded the highest turnout of 51.59 per cent...
In the by-elections held in three assembly constituencies of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, 32.7 percent voting was recorded till 11 am on Wednesday.While 31.61 percent voting took place in Dehra assembly constituency, 31.81 percent voting took place in Hamirpur and 34.63 percent in Nalagarh...