Splco emerging trend in bilingual online media
The Delhi Assembly panel committee headed by AAP MLA Raghav Chadha has served notice to Mohan to appear before the committee on September 15. Chadha said they had received a number of complaints alleging that the Facebook authorities concerned willfully ignored material allegedly spreading hatred in India. After careful deliberations on the allegations made Read More…
British magazine Prospect magazine has selected ‘top 50 thinkers 2020’ including philosophers, intellectuals, artists, scientists and writers through voting by the readers and based on the opinion of the panel of experts and editors. More than 20,000 votes were cast and counted in a public ballot to finalise the list, according to the magazine. Read More…
Congress in Gujarat won eight out of 12 seats in the elections to the board of directors representing the 11 blocks of the Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers Union Limited, popularly known as Amul Dairy. The elections were held on Saturday after the stipulated period of five years. Locals apprise the loss in election Read More…
Rajiv Kumar, who retired as Union Finance Secretary in February last after 36 years in the IAS, had been appointed the chairman of the Public Enterprises Selection Board from April 2020 till demitting office on Monday, according to an Election Commission of India (ECI) statement. Retired 1984 batch IAS officer of Bihar/Jharkhand cadre Rajiv Read More…
Ashok Lavasa is a retired 1980 batch IAS officer of the Haryana cadre. He was appointed as Election Commissioner in January, 2018. Previously, he held the portfolio of India’s Finance Secretary from June 2016 till October 2017. Besides this, he was also India’s environment secretary and the civil aviation secretary. As an Read More…
The Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan won the motion of confidence by voice vote during the special Assembly session convened on Friday. The Assembly session came a few days after the patch up between Gehlot and rebel party leader Sachin Pilot, marking a happy ending to the over a month-long political uncertainty in the Read More…
US Democratic party presidential nominee Joe Biden had on Tuesday named 55-year-old Harris as his vice-presidential running mate, making history by selecting the first black woman to compete on a major party’s presidential ticket. The nomination of US senator Kamala Devi Harris, who has her DNA root connections with Tamilnadu , as the vice- presidential Read More…
As the Election Commission of India held a series of webinars on the use of blockchain for remote voting on Monday, the issue of voter privacy emerged as a major talking point, with lawyers and academics believing that it should be given as much importance as the process of voting itself. “When we talk Read More…
A total of 196 seats in the 225-member house were decided on district proportional representation while the remaining 29 were decided on the basis of votes polled nationwide. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka Podujana Party (SLPP) won 145 seats and can also count on the support of at least five allies in the Read More…
It was a dramatic day in the DMK headquarters on Tuesday with news of sitting MLA Ku Ka Selvam landing in Delhi and speculations over his switch to the BJP. Ku Ka Selvam went to Delhi and was accompanied by BJP national general secretary Muralidhar Rao and state president L Murugan to meet J Read More…
