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'Biden govt will be weak...': Decoding new US administration's India view

After 4 days of suspense, Democratic party leader Joe Biden was announced the winner of the 2020 US Presidential election. While there is excitement in many quarters in India regarding Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, who is of Indian origin, there are some concerns too. Although Biden has been an advocate of stronger US-India relations, there are concerns that his administration might be 'weak' and embattled by Donald Trump's constant harrying. Watch Pramit Palchaudhuri and Sushant Sareen try to predict how Biden's Presidency will pan out for India, in this conversation with Hindustan Times' Aditi Prasad

8 Nov 2020
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No postal ballot facility for voters above 65 in Bihar polls, other bypolls, says EC

The facility will be applicable for voters over the age of 80, disabled or those suffering from novel coronavirus and are either in home or institutional quarantineIt also said it has created additional 34,000 polling stations, which roughly equals to 45% more

1 min read16 Jul 2020
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CEC O.P. Rawat cites logistics hurdles to rule out simultaneous polls

Availability of VVPATs a constraint if polls are held together,says election panel chief

2 min read14 Aug 2018
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Karnataka election results: BJP should hold polls with ballot papers, says Uddhav Thackeray

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray pointed out that the BJP was losing bypolls but winning assembly elections

1 min read15 May 2018
Politics

EVMs are robust, they do not malfunction: Ex-CEC Krishnamurthy

T.S. Krishnamurthy says that history has suggested that those who complain against the EVMs ever since they were introduced were always from the defeated parties

2 min read12 Dec 2017
Politics

BJP will lose in 2019 Lok Sabha polls if ballot papers used, says Mayawati

Challenging the BJP to use ballot papers in 2019 general elections, BSP supremo Mayawati said that the saffron party would lose the Lok Sabha polls if it set aside the EVMs

1 min read2 Dec 2017
Politics

Himachal elections: Selfie with postal ballot lands teacher on poll duty in trouble

A govt school teacher, has been booked under various sections of the Representation of the Peoples Act for posting a selfie of his postal ballot to his friends

1 min read9 Nov 2017
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South Africa President Jacob Zuma survives no-confidence motion

South Africa's 400-seat parliament voted on Tuesday on a non-confidence motion against President Jacon Zuma by secret ballot

3 min read8 Aug 2017
Politics

SC asks Centre to apprise it on issue of NRI voting in polls

A Supreme Court bench considered the statement that the Centre and the Election Commission have agreed to the proposal in principle and the only issue is the ways to effect it

1 min read14 Jul 2017
Politics

Why EVMs matter in India

It is the poor and the underprivileged who stand to lose the most if we junk electronic voting machines (EVMs) and go back to paper ballots

8 min read3 Jul 2017
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