Electoral employees assemble EVM and VVPAT machines in Bhopal. | Photo Credit: A.M. FARUQUI The Election Commission of India (ECI) categorically assured the Supreme Court that it is impossible to tamper with electronic voting machines (EVMs) “at any stage”. The assurance comes on the eve of the General Elections to the Lok Sabha. Replying to … Read more
A stage built for people collapses during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s road show ahead of Lok Sabha elections, in Jabalpur, Sunday, April 7, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Around four people, including one police personnel, were injured after a stage collapsed during Prime Minister Nadrendra Modi’s rally in Jabalpur area of Madhya Pradesh on April … Read more
After taking out a roadshow covering 2.5 km in Coimbatore on Monday, ahead of the Lok Sabha election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage to the 58 people who died in a series of bomb blasts 26 years ago — on February 14, 1998, in the city. Amid shouting of slogans “Modi Modi”, “ Meendum … Read more
Teachers of Little Flower Girls High School (LFGHS) in Munnar offering support to the hunger protest venue of Idukki MP Dean Kuriakose at Munnar | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT As the parliamentary election looms, the situation in Idukki remains tense with political and environmental concerns intersecting in the face of persistent human-elephant conflict in the … Read more
People under the aegis of an all-party action council stage a protest at the bus stand at Pulpally in Wayanad district with the body of a man who was killed in an elephant attack on February 16 morning. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Tensions prevailed at Pulpally in Wayanad district of Kerala on February 17 … Read more
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National honorary president of Sri Ram Sene Siddalinga Swami addressing a press conference in Kalaburagi on Monday. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI National honorary president of Sri Ram Sene Siddalinga Swami has threatened to stage a protest outside the office of the Superintendent of Police, if the police fail to arrest the culprits involved in … Read more
House surgeons at Kannur Government Medical College staged a protest on Monday demanding the stipend that has been pending for the past four months. The college, which has 156 house surgeons in two batches, has been withholding stipends from approximately 54 house surgeons since July 2023, despite a remaining balance of ₹1,11,19,337 earmarked for stipends. … Read more
A view of the SYL (Sutlej-Yamuna Link) canal in Punjab. The Centrally-funded canal links Sutlej with the Yamuna. It is to carry Haryana’s share (3.5 million acre feet) of Sutlej waters. The Centre has spent about Rs. 450 crores on the canal. The construction was abandoned in 1990 at the height of militancy in Punjab. … Read more
Sanitary employees with the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation receiving medicines, at a health camp organised on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Contract employees, registered under the Andhra Pradesh Corporation of Outsourced Services (APCOS) and working with the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation, staged a protest outside the corporation office on Saturday demanding an entire day off on Sundays. The … Read more
Telugu Desam Party(TDP) leaders staged Isuka Satyagraha Deekshalu across the State on Monday seeking to expose the illegal sand mining being done allegedly with the support of YSR Congress Party (YSRCP). Leaders of the main opposition party squatted at 44 major sand quarries amidst a crackdown by the police, whom they accused of scuttling the … Read more