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Election Commissioner Arun Goel resigns as Lok Sabha polls approach

March 9, 2024

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New Delhi, Mar 9 (PTI): Election Commissioner Arun Goel resigned on Saturday, days before the expected announcement of the schedule for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. His tenure was till December 2027. According to a law ministry notification, Goel’s resignation has been accepted by President Droupadi Murmu with effect from Saturday. It was not immediately known why he stepped down. Goel, a retired bureaucrat, was a 1985-batch IAS officer of the Punjab cadre. He had joined the Election Commission in November 2022. Following the retirement of Anup Pandey in February and Goel’s resignation, the three-member EC panel has now only

Legal equality for women could take 300 years as backlash rises against women’s rights: UN chief

March 9, 2024

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UNITED NATIONS, March 9,2024 (AP) — Legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality is becoming an uphill struggle against widespread discrimination and gross human human rights abuses, the United Nations chief said on International Women’s Day. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a packed U.N. commemoration Friday that “a global backlash against women’s rights is threatening, and in some cases reversing, progress in developing and developed countries alike.” The most egregious example is in Afghanistan, he said, where the ruling Taliban have barred girls from education beyond sixth grade, from employment outside the home, and from

Delhi: A day after namaz incident, police, paramilitary remain deployed in Inderlok

March 9, 2024

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New Delhi, March 9 (PTI) A day after a Delhi Police sub-inspector was suspended for kicking people offering ‘namaz’ in Inderlok, security personnel remain deployed to maintain law and order in the area, officials said. At least three companies of paramilitary along with the local police will continue to be deployed in Inderlok and its nearby areas in north Delhi on Saturday, they said. Official sources said the senior police officers also held meetings with the members of a peace committee to calm flared tempers in the area. Joint Commissioner of Police (north) Parmaditya on Saturday said the situation is

Rahul Gandhi fielded from Wayanad as Cong announces first list of 39 candidates

March 8, 2024

Politics

New Delhi, Mar 8 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will contest the Lok Sabha polls from Kerala’s Wayanad again, the party announced on Friday as it released its first list of 39 candidates. Congress general secretary K C Venugopal will contest from Alappuzha (Kerala), former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel from Rajnandgaon, Jyotsna Mahant from Korba, Tamradhwaj Sahu from Mahasamund and Shashi Tharoor from Thiruvananthapuram. Venugopal said the list has 15 general category candidates while 24 are from the SC, ST, OBC and minority communities. Congress treasurer Ajay Maken said the list has a good mix of youth and experience.