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New Delhi: The Poll Panel rejected Congress' allegations of large-scale discrepancies in the voters' list of Madhya Pradesh. The Election Commission said that field verifications showed that such charges were not borne out. In a letter to AICC, the poll body said, "The allegations of large-scale entries of multiple voters in these assembly constituencies is not borne out".

It said image repetition found was "not related to multiple entries". The EC told the party that the issue of image repetition was being rectified. Soon after a Congress delegation approached the poll body on the issue on Sunday, the Commission formed two teams to probe the allegations.

The Congress claimed that there were at least 60 lakh bogus voters listed in the state. It also submitted evidence to back its allegation. We have provided evidence to the Election Commission that there are approximately 60 lakh fake voters registered in the voting list. These are not merely mistakes.

The lists have been deliberately altered at the behest of the BJP government in the state, Congress leader Kamal Nath said. The EC teams visited Narela, Bhojpur, Seoni-Malwa and Hoshangabad assembly seats to check on the discrepancies if any. The Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections will be held in November this year.

New Delhi: Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) has decided to extend Air Travel facility to the students of Kendriya Vidyalayas for attending and participating in different activities organized by the KVS at National level in different parts of the country.

The first condition of availing Air Travel is that the distance between the KV (starting point) and the Venue (reaching point) of the event should be more than 500 kms. Secondly, in case of exigency, natural hazards, cancellation of trains, bad weather conditions and non availability of confirmed tickets in AC III and AC II, they may decide to go by Air.

It may be noted that for the overall development of children KVS organizes various National level events in the field of Sports, Art and Culture, Science and Social Sciences in every academic year. For this reason students have travel long distances within the country.

New Delhi: Report submitted to the Special Investigation Team by the forensic laboratory says the same gun was used to kill journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh and rationalist M M Kalburgi in Karnataka.

The state forensic science laboratory has confirmed in a report that was submitted to the Special Investigation Team probing the killing of Lankesh is part of the first chargesheet filed recently by the SIT naming K T Naveen Kumar as an accused. This is the first official confirmation of the link between the two killings which happened after a gap of two years of each other.

Kalburgi (77) was shot dead in his house on August 30, 2015, in Dharwad and 55-year old Lankesh on September 5, 2017 in Bengaluru. The SIT members had earlier talked about the same-gun theory but for the first time it has come out in the open to show that Kalburgi’s murder was the handiwork of the same gang.

New Delhi: In another faux paw caused by the BharatiyaJanata Party leadership, UP deputy CM Dinesh Sharma said on Thursday evening that Sita’s birth in the “Ramayana” was evidence of a “test-tube baby project”. In less than 24 hours, the top BJP leadership asked him to exercise restraint.

Addressing a function in Lucknow on Thursday evening to mark Hindi Journalism Day, Sharma said: “Sitajikajanmhuatohghadey se hua... us samay test-tube baby ka koi na koi project rahahogajohalchalayaJanakjineaurghadey se baby nikliwohSitaji ban gayi... ye joaajkajo technology hai test-tube baby...wohrahahoga (Sita was born in a pitcher... must be some test-tube baby project at that time; when King Janak was ploughing his field, a pitcher was discovered and the baby found in it came to be known as Sitaji).” The video of Sharma’s speech has since gone viral.