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New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner of India O P Rawat has said that Internet major Google and social media giants Twitter and Facebook have assured the Election Commission that they would not allow their platforms to be used for anything which effects the purity of polls during campaign.

He said it was tested during the Karnataka elections. “Small pilot was there. That was the beginning. Now we will have a bigger pilot before Lok Sabha elections in these four states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram,” the CEC said. Assembly polls are due in the four state later this year.

New Delhi: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi government ad bought 95 lakh sarees from weavers at the state’s Sircilla textile cluster to be distributed as the state’s gift to poor women on the occasion of Bathukamma, a Telangana folk festival celebrated during the Dasara Navratri celebrations. But Election Commission’s sudden decision to impose the poll code in Telangana has forced the K Chandrasekhar Rao government to sit on many plans and announcements it had lined up for the election-bound state.

New Delhi: An NRC official said that an applicant for inclusion of name in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) would not be allowed to change the legacy person in the claim form from the originally submitted form in 2015.

A claim can be submitted for re-consideration of eligibility based on documents already submitted or it can be submitted with additional List A or List B documents, the NRC official said here.

There is no need to re-submit the documents submitted earlier but if additional documents are required to be submitted, then any one or more of the 10 documents listed by the Supreme Court, under whose supervision the NRC is being updated, must be submitted.

New Delhi: The Goa government is in trouble once again after the reshuffle in the Manohar Parrrikar-led coalition ministry. It has left many MLAs passed over for cabinet berths fuming and also angered their supporters who have warned of protests, including a water blockade, or rethinking their support to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Two ailing ministers were dropped earlier this week - urban development minister Francis D’Souza, who is being treated in a New York hospital and power minister Pandurang Madkaikar who suffered a brain stroke earlier in 2018. They were replaced by BJP MLAs Milind Naik and Nilesh Cabral respectively.