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Ahead of Pakistan local body poll, women fear their voting rights may be t
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], March 24 (ANI): Ahead of next week's second phase of Pakistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's local body election, locals fear that in some of the conservative areas of the province, the right to vote might be taken away from women.
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Opposition seeks Pak Chief Justice, Election Commissioner's intervention i
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 14 (ANI): Calling Imran Khan government's decision to prevent Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) members from participating in the no-confidence resolution unconstitutional, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has asked the Chief Justice of
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Seventh phase of UP Assembly polls: Varanasi District Magistrate declares
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], March 4 (ANI): Varanasi District magistrate and district election officer Kaushal Raj Sharma on Friday declared a public holiday on March 7 in order to let all employees of the Central/State/public undertakings and others exercise their right to vote in t
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UP: EC declares holiday in 11 districts going to poll in first phase
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 9 (ANI): Additional Chief Electoral Officer of Uttar Pradesh BD Ram Tiwari informed on Wednesday that there will be a holiday in all districts going to polls in the first phase of Assembly elections in the state on Thursday so that citizens can exerc
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RED FM launches 'Vote Da Haq' campaign for upcoming elections
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 27 (ANI/NewsVoir): 93.5 RED FM, India's leading private radio and entertainment network has announced a new campaign, 'Vote Da Haq' to spread awareness and drive maximum participation of citizens to cast their vote in the upcoming assembly elections across the five
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Iran regains UN voting rights after paying off debt to organization: Repor
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], January 23 (ANI/Sputnik): Iran has restored its right to vote in the UN General Assembly after paying off its debt to the organization from Iranian assets frozen in South Korea, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nation
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Biden rips Trump's 'big lie' claims on 2020 elections in voting rights add
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 14 (ANI): President Joe Biden on Tuesday (local time) ripped apart the claims of Donald Trump's 'big lie' about the 2020 presidential election and said that the US is facing the "most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War" due to alleged attempts by the
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Pak opposition terms Budget 2021-22 'illegal', alleges Imran govt robbed m
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 30 (ANI): Pakistan opposition parties on Tuesday slammed the passing of the federal budget for the financial year 2021-22 and said that it is "illegal" and has "robbed the members' right to vote in the National Assembly.
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Election of Ebrahim Raisi as President means that ultra-conservatives have
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], June 21 (ANI): Hard-line Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi won Friday's elections in Iran, getting 17.8 million votes, while his main opponents - former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezaei got only 3.3 million, and moderate former Central Bank Governor Abdolnasser Hemmati
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Give Afghans living in Pakistan right to vote, says activist
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Glasgow [UK], June 6 (ANI): Afghanistan nationals living in Pakistan should be givien citizenship and the right to participate in general election in Pakistan, according to human rights activist Amjad Ayub Mirza.
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China changes electoral system to strip democracy in Hong Kong
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 28 (ANI): With the overhauling of election rules in Hong Kong, China has stamped out the opposition by reducing public voting rights. The Hong Kong legislature passed a bill amending electoral laws that drastically curtails islanders' right to vote as the majority of lawmak
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K'taka: Newly-wed couple casts vote in Belgaum parliamentary by-polls as f
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Belgaum (Karnataka) [India], April 16 (ANI): A newly-wed couple from the Bijgarni village in Karnataka's Belgaum exercised their right to vote in the ongoing by-elections for the Belgaum Lok Sabha seat as the first duty post-marriage.
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