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ICAI will release the dates today. The dates have been revised after Election Commission recently announced schedule of Election to the 18th Lok Sabha which will be held in seven phases. The Model Code of Conduct (MCC) has been enforced since Saturday following the Election Commission of India's announcement of election dates for the Lok Sabha and four state assemblies. With the 17th Lok Sabha's term scheduled to conclude on June 16, 2024, elections for its 543 seats must be conducted prior to this date. The general election for these 543 Lok Sabha seats will take place in seven phases starting from April 19, with the counting of votes set for June 4. Concurrently, elections for the State legislatures of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha, and Sikkim will also be conducted during this period.

By Luc Cohen

TMC leader Derek O'Brien on Tuesday said the party wants Supreme Court-monitored Lok Sabha polls as BJP's tricks are «destroying» institutions like the Election Commission. The TMC party leader in Rajya Sabha wondered whether the BJP is so nervous of facing the people that it is turning the EC into «its party office». «BJP's filthy tricks destroying institutions like Election Commission of India. Are BJP so nervous to face people that they are turning ECI into a party office to target Opposition? ECI or His Master's Voice?» He posted on X. «Transferring officers of elected state governments! For free and fair elections. We want Supreme Court-monitored Election 2024», he further said.

Gurmeet Chadha, Managing Partner, Complete Circle Consultants, says “you can do some bit of bottom fishing in the mid and smallcaps space in railway, defence stocks and some of the auto ancillary stocks. There have been very good corrections there but be a little more patient. It may not just come up the way you are used to seeing it last year.” Let us talk about chemicals. Do you think now these chemical stocks, the sector as a whole, could see a turnaround coming in in a slow and steady way? Gurmeet Chadha: Business performance wise, you probably will have another quarter or two. I think most of the inventory destocking has happened. It is a very cyclical sector for most chemicals except for a few certain chemistries and there is the factor of China dumping. I think in a few spaces you will find government intervention as well. But I also think that the bad news is in the price in most such names. We saw Aarti moving up when post earnings came in last month in February. One has to be selective here. You can also look at agrochemicals with now election season coming. So, we are looking at something like Tata Chemicals.

Lok Sabha polls that are scheduled to be held in seven phases beginning from April 19. The party's top decision making body is also expected to pass a resolution lauding former party chief Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, which started from Manipur on January 14 and ended in Mumbai on March 17.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 campaign. - Tata Steel Board will meet on Tuesday to consider fundraising through non-convertible debentures (NCDs) on a private placement basis, the company said in an official statement. - Indian cricket legend Virat Kohli is expected to attend the RCB Unbox event in Karnataka today.

ALSO READ: Lok Sabha Election 2024 dates out : 10 key highlights of seven-phase voting In India, general elections will be held across 28 states and eight Union territories. Besides, India became the world's most populous country across the world last year. So far, 17 general elections, over 400 state assembly elections, 16 presidential elections and Vice presidential elections have been conducted in the country.

Canada’s federal budget, due next month, is likely to allocate billions of dollars for investing in building homes and low cost housing programs, Housing Minister Sean Fraser said on Monday.

ALSO READ: Joe Biden roasts Donald Trump at Washington dinner:‘One candidate is mentally unfit and the other is…' | Top 6 quotes In the filing, Trump said that he has approached about 30 surety companies through 4 separate brokers to reach his estimate that “a bond requirement of this enormous magnitude" could require “cash reserves approaching $1 billion." Trump didn’t explain where he got the figure, but surety companies can require collateral far exceeding a verdict to ensure they don’t face any risk. “Diligent efforts since that time, including countless hours negotiating with one of the largest insurance companies in the world have proven that obtaining an appeal bond in the full amount of the judgment is not possible under the circumstances presented," Trump said.

knock-out in first three. "I can assure you that whenever I leave this place (KKR), we will be in a much better position," Gambhir said in a promotional event ahead of the upcoming IPL season here. The dashing former left-handed opener paid his his gratitude to KKR and its owner Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan and his team for their immense support over the years.

Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on ‘fight against Shakti’, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday slammed Prime Minister Modi saying that “his priority is to divert public attention by twisting the statements of opposition leaders." Taking to microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter), the Congress general secretary posted in Hindi, “The Prime Minister is just a master of diverting public attention. The people of the country are struggling with inflation, unemployment and economic crisis. The youth are disappointed.

₹100 crore. The ED statement came a day after the agency issued a ninth summon to Arvind Kejriwal in the case and asked the Delhi CM to appear before it for questioning. "Kavitha along with others conspired with the top leaders of AAP including Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia for getting favours in the Delhi excise policy formulation and implementation," the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said in a statement as per Hindustan Times.

Supreme Court on Monday, March 18, directed the SBI to release all the details related to electoral bonds along with details like date of purchase, redemption and name of the purchaser and recipient, denomination, and serial bonds. “SBI should not be selective in disclosing the details. We want all information related to the electoral bonds to be disclosed which is in SBI possession," the court said in its judgment.

Delhi High Court to handle the day-to-day activities of the wrestling federation was Monday resolved by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) saying "there is no further need" of the panel following the withdrawal of the suspension on the WFI by the United World Wrestling (UWW), which has now got complete administrative control of wrestling in the country. The IOA said in an office order that, "The decision to dissolve the Adhoc Committee comes in light of the lifting of the ban on the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) by the United World Wrestling (UWW) and the successful completion of Selection Trials by the Adhoc Committee appointed by the IOA as per the directives of the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi." "Consequent upon the aforementioned developments, there is no further need for running the activities of the WFI through an ad-hoc committee," the IOA said.

ALSO READ: Election Commission orders removal of West Bengal police chief, Gujarat and UP home secretaries The ECI's actions are being considered as a part of its efforts to maintain a level playing field and ensure the integrity of the electoral process. 1) Known to be close to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Kumar is a 1989-batch IPS officer.

Shakti that I mentioned, the Shakti that we are fighting, is the mask of that power, Modi ji," Rahul Gandhi said in a long post on X. The developments triggered Rahul Gandhi's speech in Mumbai on Sunday where he attacked the ruling BJP and PM Modi on various issues including the tampering allegations against Electronic Voting Machines (EVM). “There is a word 'Shakti' (might) in Hinduism.

NDA on Monday announced its seat-sharing formula for Lok Sabha elections in Bihar, giving 17 seats to the BJP, 16 to the JD(U) and five to Chirag Paswan's LJP (Ram Vilas). Two other NDA allies — Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and Upendra Kushwaha-led Rashtriya Lok Morcha — will contest one seat each, Vinod Tawde, the BJP's in-charge for elections in Bihar, told a press conference at the BJP headquarters here. «The BJP will contest 17 out of the total 40 seats and the JD(U) will contest 16. The Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) will contest five seats,» Tawde said at the presser jointly addressed by NDA allies from the state. Bihar LJP (Ram Vilas) chief Raju Tiwari said Chirag Paswan will contest from the Hajipur Lok Sabha seat, which has been given to the party under the seat-sharing pact.

Himachal Pradesh appointed its election in-charges for all four parliamentary constituencies in the state on Monday ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Elections to the four Lok Sabha seats of Himachal Pradesh and bypolls to the six assembly constituencies that fell vacant with the disqualification of six rebel Congress MLAs will be held on June 1. According to a notification issued by the party, Congress chief for Himachal Pradesh and sitting MP from Mandi Pratibha Singh has appointed Urban Development Minister Vikramaditya Singh the election in-charge in Mandi, Deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri in Hamirpur, Education Minister Rohit Thakur in Shimla and Agriculture Minister Chander Kumar in Kangra. The party has also appointed Industries Minister Harshvardhan Chauhan as the in-charge of publicity and publication and Revenue Minister Jagat Singh Negi as the in-charge of administration and coordination, it said.

Vladimir Putin sealed his control over Russia for six more years on Monday with a highly orchestrated landslide in an election that followed the harshest crackdown on the opposition and free speech since Soviet times. While the result was never in doubt, Russians attempted to defy the inevitable outcome, heeding a call to protest Putin's repression at home and his war in Ukraine by showing up at polling stations at noon on Sunday. But from the earliest returns, it was clear Putin would extend his nearly quarter-century rule with a fifth term.

Electoral bonds data 2nd list: The fresh data published by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday revealed some intricate details about the political funding through electoral bonds. In the second set of data, some parties have revealed the names of their donors and interestingly the name of the company behind the IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings (CSK) also features in the list. Chennai Super Kings Cricket Ltd is the biggest donor of Tamil Nadu-based AIADMK.

Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd’s (HPCL) shares are down nearly 30% after hitting a lifetime high of ₹595 apiece on 16 February. The decline may indicate that investors are anxious to book profits because of concerns about a potential cut in fuel prices ahead of the upcoming general elections.