Chandigarh: A four-day training is preparing booth-level officers to launch a door-to-door enumeration blitz with an app-based booking system to streamline the city’s voter verification process.The data collection teams will eliminate errors ahead of future polls. The Chandigarh administration’s election department’s mandatory training for BLOs began on Saturday at MCM DAV College to prepare for…
Former AIADMK minister Vellamandi R Natarajan has switched allegiance, joining the Vijay-led TVK party on May 27. CHENNAI: Former AIADMK minister Vellamandi R Natarajan has joined actor-politician Vijay’s TVK, party sources said on Thursday, marking yet another setback for the AIADMK amid a string of recent defections.Natarajan, who previously served as Tamil Nadu’s tourism minister,…
Rajasthan Royals players celebrate after the match. (Pic credit: IPL) NEW DELHI: Rajasthan Royals on Tuesday did what no other team had managed in IPL 2026, defeating league leaders Punjab Kings by six wickets at Mullanpur in New Chandigarh. The win lifted RR one place up in the standings to third, with 12 points from…
New proposal says any arrest, not conviction, can lead to denial of EAD. Immigration lawyers urged caution on a new proposal that will prove to be extremely challenging for migrant workers in the US, as the new rule says any arrest will get the Employment Authorization Document denied. The arrest could be a traffic arrest…
KOLKATA: A joint team of Kolkata Police and Paschim Medinipur Police, accompanied by central security forces, conducted an overnight search operation at the Kalighat residence of Trinamool Congress national general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee, triggering a major political controversy in West Bengal, an official said on Saturday.According to police sources, officers arrived at Abhishek…
NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janata Party founder Abhijeet Dipke on Wednesday mounted a sharp attack on the Centre over its “silence” as Sonam Wangchuk’s indefinite hunger strike against examination irregularities and the NEET paper leak entered Day 18.In a social media post on X, Dipke said, “The man who chose to put his own life on…
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Lucknow: Former UP chief minister and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday launched a sharp attack on the BJP, accusing it of promoting “negative politics”, weakening institutions and failing to address unemployment, inflation, crime and repeated paper leaks, while also unveiling an economic roadmap centred on traders, MSMEs and…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Sunday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government after CNG prices were increased again in Delhi and the NCR region, marking the second hike within two days.Sharing a post on X, the Congress alleged that the Centre had burdened consumers with repeated fuel price hikes soon after the…
A US entrepreneur claimed he was approached by Meta for a role the same week Meta fired 8,000 employees. An American entrepreneur, Zach Wilson, claimed on X that Meta reached out to interview him for a principal role the same week the company decided to fire 8,000 people in a major shake-up attributed to AI….
Lucknow: Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd (PVVNL) has informed the Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) that it has recorded an increase in power consumption with smart meters as compared to non-smart meters, for the same period.In its reply to UPERC’s letter dated April 18, the discom said that as of now, smart meters have…
