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Statesman News Service

EC clarifies on amendment made in Conduct of Election Rules

Amid criticism from Congress on the amendment made in the Conduct of Election Rules, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday categorically said candidates already have access to all the documents and papers, and nothing has been amended in the rules in this regard.

Ministers yet to get portfolios even as Maha Assembly session ends

The six-day winter session of the Maharashtra Assembly, which ended on Saturday ,has gone down in the annals of India's and Maharashtra's political history as unprecedented as not a single BJP-dominated Mahayuti minister's portfolio was announced even as the session ended.

Flashflood: No rehabilitation package for Kalimpong victims

Though the West Bengal government announced a “package” of Rs 25 crore for rehabilitation of those affected by the flood, sources in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) have confirmed that the Rs 25 crore fund was nothing but a part of development fund that the semi-autonomous body is entitled to.