After PM Modi, Balasore MP Sarangi titled ‘Odisha Modi’ gets loudest cheer

President Ram Nath Kovind provided vigour to the swearing-in ceremony

The heat had subsided somewhat from the nearly 45 degrees Celsius recorded in the afternoon and the sun had set behind the big dome of the Rashtrapati Bhavan by the time Prime Minister Narendra Modi walked up to the lectern to take the office for a second term at 7.03 pm on Thursday.

As Modi concluded his oath three minutes later at a picturesque ceremony on the forecourts of the 90-year-old red sandstone building, over a couple of thousand Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters, several of them dressed in saffron kurtas, vests and even saris, rent the air with shouts of Bharat Mata Ki Jai and Vande Mataram.

If Modi received the loudest of the cheers, party supporters clapped and raised slogans with verve for party chief Amit Shah, who debuted in the Union Cabinet and took oath of office after Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh, making him senior to Nitin Gadkari and others in the order of precedence, better known as the protocol list. Smriti Irani, who defeated Congress President Rahul Gandhi, and young leader Anurag Thakur taking oath moved supporters, sapped by the heat, to cheer them.

By the time 64-year-old Pratap Chandra Sarangi, BJP’s MP from Balasore in Odisha, came to take oath, much of the crowd had become tired of taking selfies and bored enough to troop out of the ground. As Sarangi’s name was announced, those present were surprised that Sarangi, who had weaved his way from the last row of seats on the dais, received the loudest cheers. Sarangi, also known as ‘Odisha’s Modi’, lives a Spartan life in a thatched hut. According to his affidavit submitted to the Election Commission, Sarangi has not paid income-tax in the last five financial years since he did not have a taxable income..

Alarming lessons from Facebook’s effort to stop fake news in India

Particularly challenging for would-be fact-checkers, from Facebook Inc. to Google, is the country’s 23 official languages

Companies News: The world’s biggest decision has moved toward becoming something of an experiment in how innovation monsters handle counterfeit news following quite a while of outrage. It’s not working out so well. India has upwards of 900 million voters in a race that finishes this week, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision alliance set out toward obvious triumph.

Especially trying for would-be actuality checkers, from Facebook Inc. to Google, is the nation’s 23 official dialects. Facebook has employed contractual workers to confirm content in 10 of those dialects, however those staff members are spread slender and posts in excess of twelve different dialects – Sindhi, Odia and Kannada among them – are totally unvetted.

Mishra has seen the size of the test direct. The chief at Vishvas News, Facebook‘s biggest Indian-language reality checking contractual worker, went through about fourteen days as of late chatting with web clients in little urban communities. She found a great many people are so new to web based life they have no idea about false substance. They share stories unpredictably, with stunning rate. “Being the ‘first’ to share things in their circles gave them a surge,” she says.

Facebook, Twitter Inc. furthermore, Google parent Alphabet Inc. are finding the brutal reality that disinformation and despise discourse are much more testing in developing markets than in spots like the U.S. or then again Europe. Another classification of clients, as of late computerized, accept practically whatever they get – particularly in the event that it originates from family or companions. Several millions read in dialects the American tech mammoths haven’t started to screen..

Rajasthan election result : BSP to back Congress, if required

Rajasthan Assembly Election Result 2018: BJP chief minister Vasundhara Raje has resigned. Congress will select the state’s new leader today. Stay with us for LIVE updates on Rajasthan election result

Rajasthan Assembly Election result 2018 LIVE: Rajasthan kept its 25-year-old record of throwing out the incumbent government. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief minister Vasundhara Raje has resigned. The Congress will select the state’s new leader at a meeting of party lawmakers on Wednesday.  Raje, despite the defeat of her government, won from her constituency of Jhalrapatan.

A party needs 101 seats in the 200-member Rajasthan Assembly, but the election in one seat was rescheduled after a candidate died. The BJP had won 163 seats in the 2013 Rajasthan Assembly elections and secured a vote share of 46.03%, a jump of about eight percentage points over 2008. The Congress had bagged 21 seats with a vote share of 34.27%, a fall of two percentage points.

Rajasthan has a record of not returning any party to power since 1998 and it flip-flops between the BJP and Congress. The Congress was contesting on 195 seats and had given five seats to its allies — two each to the Loktantrik Janata Dal and the Rashtriya Lok Dal, and one to the Nationalist Congress Party…Read Full Story

Election results : Congress wins 114 seats in MP, 68 in Chhattisgarh

Election result 2018: Rahul Gandhi-led Congress snatched Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh from BJP. TRS won in Telangana. Track our LIVE coverage on the Assembly polls 2018

Election results 2018 LIVE: Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan went to the Congress, while the Opposition party won 114 seats in Madhya Pradesh after several rounds of counting. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) clinched a landslide victory in Telangana, while results for Mizoram were declared and the Mizo National Front (MNF) emerged as the victor.

BJP lost 47% of the seats it won in 2013, and the Congress gained 134%. In Madhya Pradesh, Congress will have to enlist support of at least one of the four independents or of the lone Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate elected in Madhya Pradesh to form the next government in the state. The Congress has won 114 seats. The ruling BJP bagged 109 seats. The state has a 230-seat Assembly where the majority mark is 116.|ASSEMBLY ELECTION RESULTS 2018 LIVE UPDATES

BJP leader and three-time Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan won the Budhni seat but a dozen ministers were trailing behind Congress candidates.|

The Congress threw the BJP out of power in Chhattisgarh, returning to the power in the state after 15 years. BJP chief minister Raman Singh, who governed the state for 15 years, resigned on Tuesday and said he took blame for the party’s defeat. The Congress will choose the state’s new chief minister at a meeting of its new legislators.|Read Full Article 

Election results LIVE: Big day for Rahul; Cong leads in CG, Rajasthan, MP

Results of elections held in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, and Mizoram will be declared today. Track our LIVE coverage on the Assembly polls 2018 counting of votes

Assembly Election results 2018 LIVE: Counting of votes has begun in five states where election results may hold clues to how Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) might fare in Lok Sabha elections next year. Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, and Mizoram went to the polls in November and December. TV exit polls on Friday predicted a Congress resurgence in northern India. All exit polls said Rajasthan was unlikely to break its 25-year-old habit of throwing out the incumbent government, with the Congress slated to win the state. Several exit polls predicted the BJP’s 15-year-rule in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh could also end.

However, most exit polls indicated the Bahujan Samaj Party-Ajit Jogi alliance in Chhattisgarh might have hurt the Congress, with the BJP slated to win a fourth successive win in the mineral-rich state. A majority of the exit polls also predicted the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) will retain the state and the electorate will boot out the 10-year-old Congress government in Mizoram.

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Election experts consider it fallacious to extrapolate the Assembly poll results to predict the outcome of the Lok Sabha elections, but the verdict in the five states is likely to be interpreted as a barometer of the public mood for 2019. The results could also determine the political discourse, both of the government and Opposition, for the next few months as the winter session of Parliament begins on Tuesday.

A senior leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Sunday criticised the BJP for not fulfilling its promise of constructing a Ram temple in Ayodhya and demanded the government pass a legislation to bypass courts—a statement seen as nudging the party towards its core Hindutva ideology before general elections next year.

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