A bill to extend proxy voting rights to NRIs was passed in Lok Sabha recently but is pending in Rajya Sabha. It is set to lapse on the dissolution of the present Lok Sabha.
The most notable point to be discussed in the BCCI was the demand for segregation between office-bearers and paid professionals.
Abandoning negotiations, President Donald Trump demanded a make-or-break vote on health care legislation in the House, threatening to leave "Obamacare" in place and move on to other issues if Friday's vote fails.
Supreme Courtobserved that people have "no right" to question or blame the government if they do not cast their vote.
Panaji: Locals in city's Masson de Amorin area were taken for a surprise on Sunday after Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar walked into a restaurant to enjoy the Sunday morning tea.Taking out time from his busy
Yangon, Myanmar: With tremendous excitement and hope, millions of citizens voted Sunday in Myanmar's historic general elections that will test whether the military's longstanding grip on power can be loosened, with opposition leader Aung San
Patna: Having remained conspicuous by his absence during poll campaigns, actor turned BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha today cast his vote for Bihar elections but again vented ire at state party leaders for “conspiring” against him.“I
Ahmedabad: Gujarat's controversial legislation making voting compulsory in civic body polls and imposing a fine for any violation was today stayed by the state High Court which observed that the ‘right to vote' itself provided
New Delhi: Believe it or not, five Left parties got a grand total of 5,405 votes in the Delhi assembly elections in which they fielded 14 candidates.The Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday visited the polling station in Rashtrapati Bhavan but refrained from casting his vote for the Delhi assembly election."Mukherjee visited the model polling station in Rashtrapati Bhavan Saturday morning," the
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday urged the voters in Delhi to exercise their franchise in large numbers in the assembly polls."As Delhi votes today (Saturday), urging voters to go out and vote in
United Nations: The U.N. Security Council has scheduled a vote Wednesday on a resolution extending cross-border delivery of humanitarian aid to Syrians in rebel-held areas in desperate need of food and medicine, without government approval.The
Ranchi: Team India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's wife Sakshi casted her vote today at the Jawahar Vidya Mandir in Shyamli, Ranchi.Soon after casting her vote, Sakshi Dhoni tweeted: "first time saw Mahi's school campus....Also I
London: British lawmakers yesterday voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion declaring sex-selection abortion illegal, ending uncertainty over whether doctors can be prosecuted for the practice.They voted 181 to 1 for a motion brought forward
Kolkata: A whopping 80 percent of students, belonging to the arts faculty of Jadavpur University, voted for the removal of Vice Chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti in the referendum that spanned Thursday and Friday.In the first phase
Hong Kong: The organisers of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong Sunday unexpectedly cancelled the popular vote they had scheduled to decide the future of the movement, citing internal differences.A few hours before the Sunday
Varanasi: Uttar Pradesh is reeling under total disorder and anarchy, BJP MP Yogi Adityanath said yesterday here appealing to the people to vote for BJP to root out the lawlessness in the state.Adityanath was addressing
LONDON : A former member of FIFA's executive committee was accused Sunday of making payments totaling $5 million to senior football officials in return for support for Qatar's successful bid for the 2022 World Cup.
London: Leading NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul today hailed the decisive outcome of the Lok Sabha elections as a vote for a stable government which he said should concentrate on the betterment of the country.
Varanasi: As Varanasi went to polls today, there were almost 2,500 Narendras and 3,600 Arvinds exercising their voting rights, but they were still outnumbered in a big way by voters sharing their first names with
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