Adjourning the hearing for Tuesday due to the paucity of time, a bench of Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah, however, remarked: “These days elections are contested from jail … It’s easy to win an election sitting in jail … all such persons should be barred from contesting.”
The Speaker was brought to Jaipur tonight on the state government’s plane under the supervision of a team of doctors led by SMS Medical College Principal Dr Deepak Maheshwari.
The Kerala Legislative Assembly on Monday paid tribute to former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, who passed away on December 26.
Following an attack on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan and subsequent findings related to the incident, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has expressed concerns over the involvement of illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators in criminal activities in the national capital.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has said that the autonomy of state legislative assemblies is the basis of federal structure.
Hours after the saffron party swept the Hindi heartland on the counting day for four states, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday expressed gratitude to the people of the country
The counting process began at 8 am and postal ballots will be counted for the first half of an hour, a senior official with the election commission said
In West Bengal, Gurudev earlier has inspired the launch of Project ‘Udaan’, a pathbreaking effort to create safe haven for the children of sex workers and helping them get back to mainstream society.
The counting in the state, which was scheduled originally for December 3, Sunday, along with four other states, was pushed back by a day following representations to the Election Commission by the civil society
In the 2018 assembly polls, the Congress had won 114 seats, BJP 109 seats and seven seats had gone to others.
