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Taiwan jails 5 Chinese bizmen for buying votes for Kuomintang candidate Ha
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], January 18 (ANI): The Taipei District Court on Monday sentenced jail term to five businesspeople working in China, who were found guilty of taking money from Chinese authorities to buy votes for Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) candidate Han Kuo-yu in the 2020 presidential
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Assembly polls 2022: EC issues list of those who can cast vote through pos
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): The Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued a list of those persons working in essential services who can cast vote in upcoming assembly elections through postal ballot in five states.
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Congress, TMC sparring over alliance likely to make BJP's task easier in G
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 16 (ANI): With Congress rejecting an offer by Trinamool Congress for an alliance for Goa assembly polls and AAP also fighting on its own, the incipient efforts to form a broad coalition and prevent division in anti-BJP votes do not appear to be fructifying and h
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Saffron party biggest well-wisher of the Muslim community: RSS seeks minor
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 15 (ANI): As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ramped up its efforts ahead of the Assembly elections in five states, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) Muslim wing, Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), is reaching out to Muslims voters in these states seeking votes
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Uttarakhand elections: Laborers engaged in road construction along India-C
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], January 12 (ANI): In a first, workers engaged in the work of road construction on the India-China border will be brought to the polling stations by helicopter to cast their votes for the assembly elections slated to be held in Uttarakhand this year, a Borders
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Biden asks Senators to declare their stand on Democracy
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [USA], January 12 (ANI): US President Joe Biden gave a statement on changing the Senate's so-called filibuster rules to push the voting rights legislation and rebuked the former president Donald Trump and his allies for disenfranchising anyone who votes against them.
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Goa Assembly polls: Goans to cast votes at 1,722 polling stations on Febru
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], January 9 (ANI): As many as 1,722 polling stations will there in Goa Assembly polls slated to be held on February 14, said the state Chief Election Officer on Saturday.
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EVM no issue now; feel proud this country developed machine which gives ve
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 8 (ANI): Stating that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are in existence since 2004 and more than 350 crore voters have used the machine, the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sushil Chandra on Saturday said that EVM is no more an issue, adding that they fac
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Cong slams Centre, says GST hike on textiles deferred due to Assembly poll
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], January 2 (ANI): Congress has slammed the Centre's decision to defer its decision of hiking the Goods and Services Tax on textiles from the existing 5 per cent to 12 per cent, and said that the move has been made only until the counting of votes in the upco
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UP Polls: Eyeing Brahmin votes, BJP sets target of 25 days to reach out to
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 1 (ANI): Eying the upcoming assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh this year, the four-member committee constituted by the Bharatiya Janata Party on December 26 to woo Brahmin voters of the state within a target of 25 days, has reached out to more than 80 Brahmin organ
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'Muslim vote' comment misinterpreted, clarifies Uttar Pradesh BJP MP
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kannauj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 30 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party MP Subrat Pathak on Thursday said that his statement during a public rally in Kannauj was misinterpreted and what he meant was that those who want to vote for the party will do so as it does not discriminate among peo
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BJP won't get Muslim votes as we removed Article 370, built temples in Ayo
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kannauj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 29 (ANI): Noting that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government does not do any discrimination in development works, party MP Subrat Pathak on Wednesday said that the party may not still get votes of the Muslim community as it has scrapped Article 37
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