Counting of votes is underway in Manipur, with preliminary data indicating that the BJP is leading in 29 seats, while the Congress is leading in 10 assembly constituencies. National People's Party is leading in 10 seats and JD(U) in 3 seats. Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh is currently leading by 2,598 votes in the Hingang constituency. All eyes are on the results of the assembly elections in Manipur, where the Bharatiya Janata Party wants to retain power, while the Congress is also expected to win. According to exit polls, the ruling BJP will either emerge as the single largest party or cross the halfway mark. While the two major parties are expected to be the main contenders, other parties including the National People's Party, the Naga People's Front and ...
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Punjab Election Results 2022: AAP looking ready to win in Punjab
Aam Aadmi Party is leading in most of the seats in Punjab, with Chief Ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann leading . while sitting CM Charanjit Singh Channi is trailing in both his seats. Other senior Congress leaders like Navjot Singh Sidhu and President Rana Kanwarpal Singh are trailing in their respective constituencies as per the early trends. The Aam Aadmi Party has emerged as a major contender for the Congress, which wants to retain power in a multi-cornered contest. Earlier various exit polls had predicted that AAP's Bhagwant Mann would defeat Charanjit Singh Channi as the next Chief Minister of Punjab. A total of 1,304 candidates were in the fray, including 93 women and two transgenders....
Read MoreIn Goa, preliminary figures show that in Goa, the BJP is leading in 20 assembly constituencies, while the Congress is leading in 19 seats. TMC is leading in 5 seats. After exit polls predicted that the results in Goa would end in a dead heat, political parties in the state are preparing for a post-poll scenario. The counting of votes in the 40-seat state began at 8 am on Thursday. With over 300 candidates contesting in 40 assembly constituencies, Goa is witnessing a multi-cornered contest with parties including BJP, Congress, Trinamool Congress, and AAP. Meanwhile, BJP Goa CM Pramod Sawant on Tuesday traveled to Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The Congress on Wednesday said talks are on with the Aam Aadmi Party to garner sup...
Read MoreAccording to a Ukrainian media report on Tuesday, India is among the countries from where volunteers have joined the Volunteer Military Force of Ukraine, the International Army, and are currently engaged in warfare. Media reports claimed that 21-year-old Sainikesh Ravichandran, a resident of Thudaliyur in Coimbatore, has joined a paramilitary unit of volunteers in Ukraine. Sainikesh went to Ukraine in 2018 to study at the National Aerospace University in Kharkiv. He was to complete the course by July 2022. During the ongoing war in Ukraine, his family had lost contact with Sainikesh. After taking the help of the embassy, they were able to get in touch with Sainikesh. Then He informed his family that he had joined Ukrainian paramilitary forces to fight against Russia. Wh...
Read MoreBJP confident of winning more than 40 seats in Manipur Assembly elections
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Manipur President, Adhikarimayum Sharada Devi on Tuesday exuded full confidence over her victory in the Assembly election that took place in two phases in the northeastern state over the past few days. She said the BJP has set a target of more than 40 seats and we are confident of forming a stable government. When the final results are declared, we expect this number to be 40 plus only in the assembly elections Our party has not taken a decision on the chief ministerial candidate and there is no point in a new CM. Exit polls in Manipur gave the ruling BJP a clear lead in forming the next government, with many predicting that it could be reduced to less than half. As predicted by India News-Jan Ki Baat, the BJP will emerge as the single largest party...
Read MoreUkraine Celebrities Will Defend Their Country From Russian
During Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many of the country's citizens have been left with potentially serious decisions to make. Some have taken up shelter in Ukraine and some have fled. Many others, including celebrities and lawmakers, have chosen to stay and fight for their country. Popular Ukrainian singer Andrey Khalivanyuk has decided to take up arms to defend his country instead of fleeing. He left his children in the care of his grandmother. He recently told the Euronews website. Now is not the time to play guitar. It's time to get rifles and protect our country. The 36-year-old Kyiv-born Stakhovsky lives in Hungary but has returned to Ukraine to join the military and is currently waiting for a chance to defend his country against Russian troops. Stakhovsky took to Ins...
Read MoreAs Russia continues its massive invasion of Ukraine, much of the Western world is approving of the Vladimir Putin-led nation with varying degrees of seriousness. The Ukrainian Film Academy, the membership body that includes film professionals and cultural figures from across the country, has issued a petition calling for an international boycott of Russian cinema. The organization said that despite the sanctions imposed on Russia by governments around the world, the country remains active in the cultural field. In a statement released from Kyiv, the group also called on film festivals to stop accepting films made in Russia until the invasion ends. The Ukrainian Film Academy includes top actors and film industry figures from all over Ukraine. Specific asks the Council of E...
Read MorePresident Emmanuel Macron's office says France will soon propose concrete measures to ensure the security of Ukraine's five major nuclear sites. The security measures will be designed based on International Atomic Energy Agency norms, a statement from the French presidency said on Saturday. Russian attack on a nuclear plant sparked a fire on Friday and briefly raised fears of devastation around the world. President Macron is deeply concerned about the risks to nuclear security, security, and the implementation of international security measures as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the statement said. Macron said Russia should immediately cease its illegal and dangerous military actions and allow Ukrainian authorities full control of all nuclear facilities ...
Read MoreCountless Indian students trapped in firing by Russia's attack on Ukraine. Amidst the growing military crisis, many people trapped in Ukraine went there to get a medical education. While India's efforts to evacuate its citizens from the war zone continue in full swing under the government mission 'Operation Ganga', an important observation that has emerged is that. According to the Ministry of Education and Science in Ukraine, Ukraine has more than 18,095 students from India stuck in Ukraine. Pawan, a medical student, has been in Ukraine since December 2020. Earlier speaking to TOI over the phone, and on a Facebook chat late on Thursday evening, Pawan shared the ground reality of the city and requested the authorities to expedite the rescue process somehow. According to him, a...
Read MoreRussia-Ukraine Crisis : The Death Toll of Civilians continues To Rise
There are no formal diplomatic relations between Russia and Ukraine since 24 February 2022. The Russian Federation and Ukraine are currently at war. The Russo-Ukrainian War began in 2014 after the Russian annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine on a broad front. Thousands of Ukrainians have fled the country since Russia's attack on Thursday. The United Nations has warned that violence could spark a wave of 5 million refugees fleeing to neighboring countries. Videos and photos on social media show an increase in pedestrian numbers near the southern and western borders, along lines of cars heading west and out of cities. 1.5 million Ukrainians were living in Poland even before the Russian invasion. People across the country...
Read MoreBy K V Venugopal T Kumar, a Chennai-based photo-journalist and bureau chief of the United News of India (UNI), committed suicide in the office premises on the evening of Sunday, the February 13, as the agency had not paid his salary for a long time. This problem confronts a large number of staffers of the agency who regret their senior journalist, Vishwaa Viswanaath. The insiders in the organisation, who preferred to speak on a condition of anonymity, said that the 56-year-old journalist had taken the extreme step after the employees were not paid properly for 60 months in their Chennai office that was entrusted with the responsibility to Mann the Southern Zone as a connectivity centre to organise articles and features from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Karnataka and Puducherry, ap
Read MoreBy Sanjeev Sirohi Why is it that Lord Ram, for whom more than 12 lakh diyas are being lighted as a mark of respect in Ayodhya, is legally worthless? As the Centre very strongly feels that not just Ayodhya but any other Hindu holy city in UP are all legally worthless in the sense that not a single High Court Bench can be created anywhere in the whole of UP? Why is that from 1948 till 2021 Centre very strongly feels that only 'Nawab City', in other words, “Lucknow” is alone best suited for a High Court Bench where High Court Bench was created on July 1, 1948, by the then PM late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru just about 200 km away from Allahabad where High Court itself is located and all other cities no matter how holy they may be are legally worthless just not fit to be given a High Court Ben...
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