Former Chief Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat, who demitted office on December 1, has said that seizure of cash and other goods during the polls recorded an increasing trend despite demonetisation.
Polls to 4 Assemblies likely with Lok Sabha election
The Election Commission is likely to hold Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh with the Lok Sabha election, highly placed sources in the panel have said. The terms of the four Assemblies end in May and June in 2019.
Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal restrains Mahinda Rajapaksa from functioning as PM
Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal on Monday temporarily restrained controversially installed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his purported Cabinet of Ministers from functioning in their respective offices.
Policeman, protester killed in mob violence in Bulandshahr
A police Inspector and a youth were killed when a mob of around 400 persons clashed with the police following the alleged discovery of cow carcasses in a village in Bulandshahr district of western Uttar Pradesh on Monday.
Gujarat encounters: Supreme Court takes up plea for SIT probe
The Supreme Court on December 3 gave the Gujarat government an opportunity to file an affidavit giving reasons why an apex court-appointed committee’s report on 22 ‘fake’ police encounters, which occurred during Narendra Modi’s Chief Ministership between 2002 and 2006, should not be made available to petitioners seeking a fair and independent probe into the ‘killings’.
5.8-tonne GSAT-11 ready for launch
A team of top officials and engineers of the Indian Space Research Organisation (IISRO), now stationed in the Guiana Space Centre, South America, is going over the last steps before it sees off the heaviest Indian communication satellite, GSAT-11, to its space orbit. The liftoff is slated for the wee hours of Wednesday, December 5, India time, but from half way across the globe.
U.S.-China ties make ‘big leap forward’, says Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump boasted on Monday that U.S. relations with China have taken a “BIG leap forward” following his meeting in Argentina with President Xi Jinping.
Mismatched slippers, sign language and no ‘I’s: Team building, Harendra style
Throughout Sunday, the Indian team here had to focus on the game — and the fork on the left of their plates every time they had a meal. It was just one of the things that the team has been doing as it tries to live its World Cup dream.
Sex-sorted semen to control stray bulls
In Uttar Pradesh, where the ban on cow slaughter is taken very seriously, what’s illegal for humans may well prove a godsend to tackle the growing menace of stray bulls: sex selection. The State government plans to reduce the numbers of stray bulls by making sure that they are never born.