A total of 11,729 polling booths are being set up in the state for the Lok Sabha elections, where around 75,62,830 voters are likely to exercise their right to vote.
Additional Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Kumar Jogdande told ANI that there are a total of 65 thousand 160 elderly voters in the state of Uttarakhand, whose age is more than 85 years, the Election Commission had decided to provide the facility of voting from home through the postal ballot to
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has allowed media personnel on duty related to poll day coverage to vote through postal ballot in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Media persons on election duty carrying authorisation letters from the Election Commission and those part of essential services can vote using postal ballots in the Lok Sabha and four state assembly polls, the Election Commission said on Tuesday.
According to the Ministry of Communications, under this scheme, every Gramin Dak Sevak will get three financial upgradations on completion of 12, 24 and 36 years of service, amounting to Rs 4,320, Rs 5,520, and Rs 7,200 per annum, respectively.
Addressing the gathering at the release ceremony, Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw commended the remarkable journey of the AIRF, acknowledging the numerous challenges and achievements it has witnessed over the years.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered two cases and conducted searches at two locations to probe a postal recruitment scam on allegations of obtaining Gramin Dak Sevak (GDS) and Assistant Branch Post Master (ABPM) jobs based on forged documents in Himachal Pradesh.
The central agency has also registered cases against unknown persons on allegations of securing jobs by submitting fake educational qualification documents.
Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan and other political leaders who are currently incarcerated have cast their votes through a postal ballot from Adiala Jail.
After releasing commemorative postage stamps on the Ram Temple of Ayodhya on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said they will remain as symbols testifying to a historic event and convey the ideas around it to the future generations.
The Special Judge for CBI Cases, Chennai, sentenced R Amrithambal, then Standardised Agency System Agent (SASA), Sub Post Office, Tiruvottiyur, Chennai, to five years of rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs 1.03 crore, and her husband H Narayana to five years of rigorous imprisonment with