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Congress accuses Modi govt of freezing its bank accounts ahead of election

NEW DELHI, March 21, 2024 (AP) — The Congress party, India’s main opposition political group, accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Thursday of stifling democracy and crippling the party by freezing its bank accounts in a tax dispute ahead of national elections. India has announced that a 6-week-long general election will start April 19, with most polls predicting a victory for Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. Rahul Gandhi, a former Congress party chief, said it is unable to campaign properly with its accounts frozen. “We can’t support our workers, and our candidates and leaders can’t travel

Election Commission uploads electoral bond data with alphanumeric numbers on website

New Delhi [India], March 21 (ANI): The Election Commission on Thursday uploaded the electoral bond data with alphanumeric on its website data submitted by the State Bank of India on the orders of the Supreme Court. The alphanumeric numbers that can help match the purchasers of the bonds with the political parties that encashed them. The data also includes bond numbers that would enable donors to be matched with the political parties they donated to. “In compliance with the Supreme Court’s directions, SBI has provided data pertaining to electoral bonds to ECI today i.e. March 21, 2024. The ECI has

1 in 3 suffering from prehypertension in India: ICMR study

New Delhi, Mar 21 (PTI) More than 33 per cent of Indians suffer from prehypertension, a recent Indian Council of Medical Research study has said, raising concerns on the impact of the condition as it often progresses to full-blown hypertension. In the study comprising 7,43,067 adults aged between 18 and 54 years, researchers from the ICMR’s National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR) conducted a secondary analysis of data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) that covered 707 districts in 28 Indian states and eight Union territories. “Higher odds of prehypertension were observed in individuals from wealthier households

Supreme Court rejects applications for stay on appointment of new election commissioners

New Delhi, Mar 21 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed applications seeking a stay on the appointment of two new election commissioners. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said it will examine the main petitions challenging the validity of the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Terms of Office) Act, 2023. “We are dismissing the applications for stay on the appointment,” the bench said. “At the stage, we cannot stay the legislation or suspend it operation. It would lead to chaos and uncertainty and we cannot do it (stay) by

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