Tag: EC
Goa Election Results: BJP Claims Victory In Goa As Party Leads In 19 Seats
After initially trailing his nearest Congress rival Dharmesh Saglani, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant now leads by 605 votes from the Sanquelim Assembly seat after four rounds of counting, even as deputy Chief Minister Chandrakant Kavlekar continues to trail his Congress rival Altone D'Costa by 2,800 votes in the Quepem Assembly seat. ....
AAP Sweeps Punjab, BJP To Retain Power In UP, Uttarakhand, Goa And Manipur
The latest counting trend shows that the Aam Aadmi Party is heading for a landslide victory in Punjab assembly elections while the BJP is to retain power in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur with a comfortable margin, according to the Election Commission's latest update at 5 p.m. ....
PM Modi Congratulates AAP For Punjab Sweep, Assures Centre's Help
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday congratulated the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for its clean sweep in the Punjab Assembly elections, and assured the party of all possible help from the Centre. ....
India Abstains For 5th Time On UN Ukraine Resolution
India has abstained for the fifth time on a UN resolution on Ukraine, but this time it was on a Russia-sponsored resolution in the Security Council and New Delhi was on the side of Washington and its allies. ....
EC Imposes 7-day Campaign Ban On Trinamool MLA For Threatening Voters
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has banned Trinamool Congress MLA Narendranath Chakraborty in West Bengal from campaigning or holding meetings for seven days effective from Wednesday following a complaint from the BJP for threatening voters in Asansol bypoll. ....
Plot Being Hatched To Assassinate Imran Khan: Ex-Minister
A former Pakistani Minister has claimed that a "plot is being hatched to assassinate Prime Minister Imran Khan" as political tensions escalate in the country, Geo News reported. ....
India-Australia ECTA 'watershed' Moment For Bilateral Relations: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA) in such a short span of time reflects the depth of the mutual confidence between the two countries. ....
India Reports Below 1K New Covid Cases After 715 Days
India reported less than 1,000 new Covid-19 cases for the first time in 715 days and the active caseload fell below 13,000, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. ....
Bhagwant Mann Likely To Announce 300 Units Of Free Power In Punjab On Saturday
The Bhagwant Mann-led AAP government on Saturday in Punjab is likely to announce 300 units of free electricity to households, sources said. ....
France's Emmanuel Macron Wins Second Term, Defeats Far-right Leader
Thousands of Parisians assembled near the iconic Eiffel Tower - where a giant television screen broadcast live updates about the polls - cheered as an official preliminary declaration of the result of the French presidential election declared President Emmanuel Macron winner within minutes of balloting coming to an end. This without use of electronic voting machines, which are banned in France because of their established unreliability. ....
