The state had recorded overall 79.80 per cent turnout in 2012.
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday said it has arrested two persons in Chennai for alleged illegal exchange of Rs 6 crore in old notes "in connivance with" sand-mining baron J Sekhar Reddy as part of its money laundering probe post demonetisation.
The move was "per se illegal for violating the concept of freedom of speech and expression enumerated in Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution and the right to freedom of religion guaranteed under Article 25 of the Constitution", it said.
Is Stalin positioning himself as a central figure in the anti-Bharatiya Janata Party, anti-Narendra Modi formation?
Agents often influence customers into buying new products every year instead of continuing with their existing policies
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday demanded a referendum by an "impartial organisation" like the United Nation to see how many people were in the favour of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
A bench of justices D K Jain and A K Dave issued notices to the commission and the state government, asking them to file their responses within four weeks.
At Congress' 'Jan Vedna Sammelan' earlier this month, Gandhi had made comments co-relating his party's symbol 'hand' with religious gods.
The Supreme Court Thursday ordered that the report of a high-level committee on the role of erring police officials in the 1994 espionage case relating to Indian Space Research Organisation scientist Nambi Narayanan be given to the Central Bureau of Investigation and directed the agency to conduct further investigation on the issue.
While five resident doctors of Hindu Rao Hospital had been sitting on a relay hunger strike since Friday, the senior doctors of the North Corporation-run facilities had gone on an indefinite strike on Tuesday. Their associations had joined hands in solidarity since Tuesday.
The new Bench will start hearing the matter from August 16.
This alliance is for personal survival, not ideology-based support. This alliance is for power, not for the people. This alliance is for personal ambitions, not people's aspirations," the PM charged.
HUFs are not used for tax evasion but for tax avoidance/to save the tax within the four corners of the law. Experts say that there will be little or almost insignificant change in tax revenues.
The study found that the Muslim community contributes a share of 22.75 per cent to the religious minority schools and has the lowest percentages of non-minority population among their minority schools at 20.29 per cent.
BSES entities BRPL (BSES Rajdhani Power Limited) and BYPL (BSES Yamuna Power Limited) supply electricity to around 12 lakh and 16 lakh customers respectively.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine if the Special Investigation Team appointed by it to inquire into the 2002 post-Godhra riot cases can share its report with the Nanavati Commission, which too is probing into the Godhra train carnage and the subsequent riots. A bench headed by Justice D K Jain said it will look into the matter, when the SIT approached it with a plea for its direction on the issue, saying the commission has issued notices to its officers.
Shah had on Tuesday attended a party event in Lucknow where he said that the Opposition is spreading rumours about the CAA.
The move is seen as a gamechanger in guarding the strategically important Indian Ocean Region.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday gave deadline of one week to them to address the problem of outages saying government will not hesitate to cancel their licenses if they fail to comply with the directive.
Overbooking by an airline cannot be done ignoring the sense of duty or liability towards passengers with confirmed tickets, the national commission ruled.
Clashes were reported from several parts of Bengal, where polling is underway in the third phase of assembly elections, with Trinamool Congress candidates Sujata Mondal and Nirmal Majhi alleging that they were heckled and assaulted by BJP workers, a charge denied by the saffron camp.
The EC currently follows a system of random counting of VVPAT slips in one polling booth per assembly segment of a Parliamentary or assembly constituency.
The apex consumer court on Monday issued notice to Nestle India Limited on a Rs 640-crore or Rs 6.40 billion suit against it by the Centre.
Patel had challenged the high court order which had dismissed his plea questioning the maintainability of Rajput's election petition.
Should parties provide clearer answers to queries about their financials? Sreenivasan Jain examines
Two incidents of hurling of crude bombs were reported in Sealdah and Khanna areas of Kolkata, and police contingents were rushed to the spot to bring the situation under control, a State Election Commission official said.
An 8-member delegation of protesters submitted a memorandum of their demands, including withdrawal of the CAA, to the L-G. The L-G appealed to them to call off their agitation as it has been 'causing inconvenience to schoolchildren, patients and general public'.
Ambani's wife Nita Ambani, a non-executive director on the company's board, earned Rs 600,000 sitting fee.
Instead of agitating, be ready for celebration, Maha CM Devendra Fadnavis said.
Meet Namrata Jain, the first UPSC topper from Naxal-affected Dantewada
Should the Income-Tax Act have been simultaneously amended to exclude Sikhs and Jains from the definition of HUF once they were declared a minority by the government? Sanjeev Nayyar discusses the curious dichotomies in our laws.
A consumer wins a case against a financial company for selling him a car online, but not transferring the ownership in his name.
Justice Ghose, the former Supreme Court judge, was on March 19 appointed as the country's first Lokpal, the anti-corruption ombudsman.
The Delhi government on Monday clarified that the advisory issued on two-finger test on rape victims was "misinterpreted" and said it will issue a fresh notification clearly mentioning that this procedure to ascertain sexual assault is banned.
Modernisation of Madrasas is in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plan that he laid out in run-up to Lok Sabha elections in 2014.
B'desh minister termed as "untrue" the allegations of minority repression in the country.
The Election Commission has done good work in recent years but sometimes it takes decisions in over-anxiety, the Supreme Court on Friday said while referring to poll watchdog's order on cash seizure above Rs 2.5 lakh in transit ahead of Gujarat assembly elections.
Gupta, 53, posted as Second Secretary (Press and Information) at Indian High Commission in Islamabad, was arrested on April 22, 2010 by the Special Cell of Delhi Police for passing on sensitive information pertaining to defence to Pakistan's ISI.
'He is busy building an image on the social media as an anti-right-winger.' 'But remember: An actor is only good at what he was born to do,' observes Subhash K Jha.
The head of intelligence at the Indian high commission in Ottawa, when the Air India 747 was blown up on June 23, 1985, speaks to Senior Editor Ajit Jain.
