The higher turnout percentage was largely due to the SIR, which removed around 57 lakh names, bringing down the electorate from 6.29 crore to 5.73 crore. CHENNAI: A small step for democracy, a giant leap for special intensive revision (SIR). That probably explains the 85.15% voter turnout in the Tamil Nadu assembly election on Thursday.Polling…
Hyderabad: The Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) is planning to host the upcoming AICC national OBC advisory council meeting in Hyderabad. TPCC chief Mahesh Kumar Goud met AICC leader Rahul Gandhi in Delhi on Thursday and requested the meet be held in Hyderabad, to which Gandhi reportedly responded positively. He requested Gandhi to include the…
Ward-level monitoring committees constituted by MCG will oversee agency performance on the ground Gurgaon: MCG on Thursday initiated the process to hire two firms to manage the city’s door-to-door waste collection, floating a tender estimated at Rs 606 crore and dividing the city into two operational clusters.Cluster 1 (zones 1 and 2) spans 138.4 sq…
Kolkata: Pool cars are to be taken off roads from April 24 instead of April 27 with random requisitioning for poll duty, a pool car association has written to cops and schools. Many schools have decided to start online classes till the end of polls.Urgency rose after a few pool cars were allegedly intercepted while…
Panaji: Announcing that work experience in the private sector is a key criteria for recruitment for govt jobs, chief minister Pramod Sawant announced that govt plans to recruit around 2,500 individuals through the Staff Selection Commission.“The Staff Selection Commission is a transparent process. Exams for 2,500 jobs will be conducted in the coming days and…
Gorakhpur: Highlighting the development-oriented transformation in Gorakhpur over the past nine years, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said that when intentions are clear, it doesn’t take long to change destiny.“With a strong will to do something good, significant change can be achieved… Gorakhpur has witnessed transformation across all sectors over the past nine years….
Ahmedabad: The local crime branch of Zone V has detected a case of two-wheeler theft registered at the Nikol police station. The LCB team arrested two accused and detained a minor in connection with the theft of gearless scooters from a showroom’s godown in Nikol.The complaint was filed by one Dharmapal Chauhan, showroom manager and…
TNN Ludhiana: A man allegedly set his in-law’s house on fire at Baba Nand Singh Nagar in Ayali Kalan after a dispute. He has been arrested. In his police complaint, Raj Kumar Shukla, a resident of Ayali Kalan, said his daughter Aarti was married to the accused, Ashish Tiwari. Ever since, Ashish had frequent fights…
Amritsar: Punjab BJP general secretary and former IAS officer Jagmohan Singh Raju has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to sanction a Rs 10,000-crore economic package for Amritsar, coinciding with the city’s upcoming 550th foundation year.In a letter dated April 23, a copy of which was released to media, Raju proposed bringing Amritsar under the City…
Pune: Govt employees, including nurses, entered day three of their indefinite pan-Maharashtra strike on Thursday, leaving patient care severely hampered at the state-run Sassoon General Hospital (SGH).Late in the night, a meeting with the state chief secretary ended inconclusively, with state govt employees’ associations deciding to continue their stir since discussions reached an impasse.Meanwhile, the…
