'Everyone in Dhaka today is aware that that they need good relations, normal relations with India, but the question... but it's premature to think about that now, right now it is a crisis moment'
Lt Gen (Retd) Puri and several other Kargil veterans who had played a decisive role in the 1999 war were felicitated by the Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan in Delhi recently.
'There is a sense of achievement but it has come at a great cost.'
Here is an explainer on the functioning of the seven-year-old body.
He hinted that the same hue and cry is not made about 1984 riots not being in textbooks.
There have been allegations of inflation of marks in NEET-UG which has led to a record 67 candidates sharing top rank with perfect score.
The male-female turnout gap was wide in Bihar and Jharkhand. While in Bihar, the male turnout was 52.42 percent, the female turnout was 61.58 percent.
'The kind of situation we are seeing...we don't believe that this can happen in a settled democracy like India'
From Instagram to X, social media platforms, in the run-up to the polls have seen bitter poster wars and even bitter meme battles for political one-upmanship.
The Kukis have already declared that they are not fielding any candidate in the parliamentary polls as an act of boycott.
In violence-hit Manipur, the general buzz associated with elections and the related paraphernalia of posters, banners and rallies are missing but it is the presence of these brown boxes with pictures of guns that is symbolic of the strife-ridden society struggling to return to normalcy.
Living separately and refusing to co-exist in future, many members of both Kukis and Meitis communities ask - why elections at this time and what difference will they make?
'If the government can conduct elections during such a time, I am sure they can find ways to bring peace and address the concerns of people. Everything that we had built over the years got burnt and now we are supposed to start our lives from scratch and we should also vote?'
A majority of over 50,000 internally displaced people are currently staying at relief centres across five valley districts and three hill districts.
The only visible hint of the impending election is the hoardings put up by local election authorities, urging citizens to exercise their franchise.
Questioning the relevance of the electoral process amidst the ongoing turmoil, the women traders from various market associations, are contemplating a boycott of the polls with their major grievance being -- 'the nation forgot Manipur'.
With polls to elect the 18th Lok Sabha approaching, district poll panels are fixing the rates for expenses as part of the election expenditure monitoring process.
However, the national party count has gone down to six from 14 in over seven decades.
In some states, many women voters had enrolled themselves by their relationship with the male members of their family instead of providing their own names.
According to the Election Commission of India, the code has evolved over the last 60 years to assume its present form.
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