11 docs in Bihar SIR compared to 7 in summary revision shows it is voter friendly: SC
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the 11 documents required to be submitted by an elector for Bihar's special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral roll as opposed to seven documents in summary revision conducted previously showed the exercise was "voter friendly".
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Canine-free Vidhana Soudha? Karnataka MLAs urge Speaker to 'save' them from stray dogs
A view of the Vidhana Soudha(L), stray dogs at the premises of the building in Bengaluru.
Credit: DH Photos
Lawmakers in Karnataka asked Assembly Speaker UT Khader on Wednesday to remove free-roaming dogs from the premises of the Vidhana Soudha and the Legislators’ Home in the backdrop of the Supreme Court ordering New Delhi’s streets to be canine-free.
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'Chor machaye shor': BJP alleges irregularities in voter registration in seats of Gandhi siblings, Akhilesh among others
Anurag Thakur also flagged 'irregularities' in voter registration in Kolathur seat in Tamil Nadu and Mainpuri seat in Uttar Pradesh and asked DMK supremo M K Stalin and SP leader Dimple Yadav to resign for "rigging" election.
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Supreme Court to hear plea for restoring statehood of Jammu & Kashmir on August 14
The plea claimed the non-restoration of the status of statehood of Jammu and Kashmir in a time-bound manner violated the idea of federalism which formed a part of the basic structure of the Constitution.
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'Mobster' Chandrababu Naidu is in touch with Rahul Gandhi through Revanth Reddy on hotline, alleges Jagan
YSRCP supremo and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy launched a scathing attack on Chandrababu Naidu while also training his guns at Congress leader, Rahul Gandhi asking him why was he not talking about 'Vote Chori' in in Andhra Pradesh and also about Arvind Kejriwal's loss.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to visit India on August 18
This comes amid news reports of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's upcoming trip to China later this month
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Viral voter list shows unmarried seer as 'father' of 50 in Varanasi; Congress smells rat
ECI logo (L), viral voter list.
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Amid the ongoing political battle over what the opposition termed ‘vote chori’ (stealing of votes), a viral voter list, which allegedly showed an unmarried seer having 50 sons, the eldest being 72 and the youngest 28, has triggered a huge controversy with the Congress attacking the Election Commission and questioning its impartiality.
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No freedom to eat meat on Independence Day? Ajit Pawar joins Maha Vikas Aghadi in slamming ban
'What we eat on Independence Day is our choice….the municipal commissioners has no right to interfere, and that diktat won’t be followed', UBT- Sena's Aaditya Thackeray said.
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Mentally-challenged deaf and mute woman gang-raped in UP; CCTV shows victim being chased on deserted road
The two accused -- Ankur Verma and Harshit Pandey -- were arrested following a police encounter and have admitted to the crime during preliminary interrogation, Superintendent of Police Vikash Kumar.
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Swedish man takes up 7-day challenge to clean streets of India; desi netizens say 'feeling ashamed'
'I am challenging myself for the next 7 days, to clean one street each day in India,' he said on Day 1.
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