-The Hindustan Times New Delhi: The six-day exercise of filing nominations for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections ended on Saturday, picking amazing pace in its last lap. On Thursday, 414 candidates filed their nominations and on Saturday alone 775 more were added to the tally, taking the total to 1,189 nominations. Further corrections will be made after eliminating duplicate filings. The largest number of nominations came from the Mustafabad constituency (41) while the...
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Sheila Dikshit's assets up 40% in five years
-IANS New Delhi: The value of assets owned by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit grew over 40% in the last five years, up to Rs18 million, according to an Affidavit submitted by her Thursday. The three-time chief minister filed her nomination from New Delhi constituency for the Dec 4 assembly election. According to the Affidavit, the value of her moveable and immovable assets increased from Rs. 13 million in 2008 to Rs. 18.3...
More »EC lays down guidelines to regulate campaigning on social media -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Political parties and candidates will now have to account for every penny spent on the use of social media for their poll campaigns. The Election Commission on Friday issued detailed guidelines to regulate internet campaigns on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc, asking candidates to declare their social media accounts and all political parties to pre-certify advertisements before they are posted on social media websites. The instructions also require...
More »None without Aadhaar would be denied benefits -Samanwaya Rautray
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: The government, in a bind over a recent Supreme Court order asking it to desist from linking social welfare schemes with its ambitious unique identity card Aadhaar, on Monday held out an assurance to the top court that no one would be deprived of any social welfare benefits for not holding Aadhaar. The government said while it had initiated the scheme to provide benefit transfers using Aadhaar...
More »Maha schools not following HC order on primary teachers: PIL
-PTI Earlier, HC had ruled that D.Ed would be criterion for recruiting primary school teachers and not B.Ed Mumbai: Bombay High Court has directed Maharashtra government to file an Affidavit on a PIL alleging that primary schools in the state were not complying with its earlier full bench order making it mandatory for teachers to have D.Ed qualification. Hearing the PIL, a bench headed by Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud, on October 11, asked the...
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