Himachal Pradesh will go to polls on November 12, the Election Commission said on Friday but did not announce the poll schedule for Gujarat citing past precedents. Addressing a press conference, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said the counting of votes for Himachal Pradesh polls will take place on December 8 and elaborate arrangements have been made to ensure maximum participation of voters in the “festival of democracy”.
In the elections to the 68-member assembly with over 55 lakh eligible voters, the BJP will seek to overturn the three-decade convention of no ruling party returning to power by defeating the main opposition Congress in the hill state. However, the Commission refrained from announcing the poll schedule for the Gujarat assembly which has a tenure till February 18, ....Read More
Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar was heckled by unidentified persons at the Dulles International Airport when he arrived in Washington to attend meetings with the global lending institutions and seek much-needed aid for the cash-strapped and flood-hit country. In a video that went viral on Twitter on Thursday, Dar, accompanied by Pakistan’s Ambassador to US Masood Khan and other officials jeered at the airport. In the clips, the hecklers can be heard chanting slogans of chor chor directed toward Dar.
The convoy of NCPCR chief Priyank Kanoongo was stopped by people who also showed black flags when he, along with complainant & BJP leader Priyanka Tibrewal, arrived to meet the family of a minor girl who was found dead, in Baidyabati, Hooghly district. “When this Govt can’t provide security to the Commission, we can imagine their failure in providing security to children. A child has been murdered. Goons of ruling party are blocking the way & stopping us from meeting the family. We will leave only after meeting them," NCPCR chief Kanoongo said.
The 5th Vande Bharat Train will be launched on 10th November 2022. The train will run on Chennai- Bengaluru- Mysuru route.
In other news, no carbon dating of the ‘Shivling’ is to be allowed in the Gyanvapi Mosque premises, said the Varanasi District Court while delivering the much-awaited order. The court also rejected all demands made for a scientific probe of the structure of the mosque.
Meanwhile, a bomb threat on a flight arriving from Moscow was received by the CISF at the international airport here in the early hours of Friday, police said. According to the police, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) received an e-mail warning of a bomb on the flight.
The flight landed at the Delhi airport between 3 and 4 am, and its 386 passengers and 14 crew members were immediately evacuated, a senior police official said. The flight was checked and nothing has been found so far, the official said, adding that the aircraft has been isolated.
In Punjab, Border Security Force troops shot down a drone that entered India from Pakistan’s side along International Border at 4.35 am in Gurdaspur sector. A massive search operation is launched in the entire area. “Brave jawans of BSF heard a drone coming from Pakistan side. As soon as it entered India, jawans fired 17 rounds of bullets at it. One of the blades of the drone was damaged. Entire area is being searched. The drone will be analysed,” Prabhakar Joshi, BSF DIG, Gurdaspur told news agency ANI.
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