Modi begins talks for forming new cabinet after big election win for BJP

The BJP would have the first back-to-back majority in the lower house of parliament for a single party since 1984. Votes will be fully counted by Friday morning.

Head administrator Narendra Modi will hold chats on Friday to shape another bureau to handle a stammering economy and different difficulties confronting his second term subsequent to winning a major larger part.

Official information from the Election Commission demonstrated Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party had won 296 of the 542 seats available to all and was ahead in seven more, up from the 282 it won in 2014. The BJP would have the first consecutive greater part in the lower place of parliament for a solitary gathering since 1984. Votes will be completely tallied by Friday morning.

After a hostile and a polarizing decision battle, the center moves back to an economy that is abating, even as the U.S.- China exchange war seethes and worldwide oil costs tick higher. “While the macroeconomic picture looks steady and encouraging, numerous significant portions need support from the administration,” BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav wrote in a segment in the Indian Express every day.

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“India can’t totally remain protected from the progressing exchange war between the U.S. what’s more, China or the geo-vital clash between the U.S. furthermore, Iran,” he included. Later on Friday Modi will meet with his priests to talk about shaping another bureau, an administration representative said. He has not yet set an introduction date for the organization, however BJP authorities said he was required to move rapidly to assemble another bureau.

A prompt choice will be whether to keep senior BJP pioneer Arun Jaitley as account serve notwithstanding his weakness, or allocate Railways and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal to the activity of driving Asia’s third biggest economy. Goyal, 54, had ventured into the job twice in the Modi government when Jaitley was sick. Goyal exhibited a break spending plan before the decision and a full spending plan is expected after the new government gets down to business…

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..

PM Modi insulted a martyr, says Rahul on ‘Rajiv Corrupt No 1’ remark

Rahul Gandhi will campaign in Bihar, Amit Shah in West Bengal and Priyanka Gandhi in Haryana for the 6th phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi is set to campaign in Bihar today for the 6th phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019. He will address a public rally in Chaibasa and later hold a roadshow in Dhanbad. Meanwhile, AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will visit Ambala, Hisar and Rohtak. Priyanka will seek votes for party candidates Kumari Selja and Bhavya Bishnoi. Later in the evening, she will hold a roadshow in Rohtak in support of party candidate, three-time MP Deepender Singh Hooda.

This would be Priyanka Gandhi’s first visit to the state after her entry into active politics. BJP President Amit Shah will address four public meetings in West Bengal and Bihar today. His first rally will be in Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency, follwed by a public meeting in Medinipur and Bishnupur in West Bengal. In the evening, Shah will campaign in Pataliputra Lok Sabha constituency.

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Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for showing disrespect to his mentor LK Advani. Addressing a public rally in Sadar under the Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat during campaigning for party candidate JP Agarwal, Gandhi said being a Congressmen, he has only “love for Modi” despite the Prime Minister having insulted his father Rajiv Gandhi.

Gandi said that Modi insulted everyone — from youths to farmers. “Respect is part of our culture and Modi does not respect anyone but Modi himself.” The Congress President said Modi spoke about and insulted his father in a political rally. “He is a PM, but insulted a martyr. I am a congressman, a Congress leader. The more you hate me, the more would I love you,” he said. At a rally in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, Modi had targeted the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi by calling him “bhrashtachari No.1” (Corrupt No.1).

Sadhvi Pragya: From impact charged to Digvijaya Singh’s rival in Bhopal

Pragya has a place with Bhind region of Madhya Pradesh where her dad was an ayurvedic specialist. Her dad who additionally was an individual from RSS and that conveyed her near conservative belief system

Elections 2019: Following a month of dawdling, the BJP has chosen to field Pragya Singh Thakur, otherwise known as Sadhvi Pragya, from the prominent Bhopal Lok Sabha voting public. She will take on Congress veteran and previous Madhya Pradesh boss clergyman Digvijaya Singh.

In any case, she was not the conspicuous decision for the gathering. First Uma Bharati and afterward Shivraj Singh Chouhan proclaimed that they won’t challenge from Bhopal. The gathering was in a problem when Pragya Singh Thakur’s name surfaced. Thakur gloated on Wednesday, “Murmur Yeh Dharmyuddh jeetenge (We will win this campaign).”

Thakur came into the spotlight in 2008 when she was captured for her supposed contribution in the Malegaon impacts. She was secured after an uncommon court had encircled charges against Sadhvi Pragya, Lieutenant-Colonel Prasad Purohit and five others for dread exercises, criminal intrigue, and murders.

Thakur has a place with Bhind locale of MP where her dad was an ayurvedic specialist. Her dad who additionally was an individual from the RSS and that conveyed her near conservative belief system in all respects right off the bat in her life.

A tomboyish Thakur cherished wearing pants shirts and riding motorbikes. She was a functioning individual from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) amid her school days. She was additionally connected with Durga Vahini. Thakur finished her lords ever. She was before long seen for her searing disposition and fiery discourses. In 2002 she likewise shaped an association, which as per her, used to ‘salvage’ young ladies who ran off with young men of different networks…

Original promoter of NaMo TV denies running channel on PM Modi anymore

The channel was originally run by a Gujarat based company whose promoter denies being behind the channel’s re-appearance on the airwaves.

Current Affairs: One of the original promoters of a company that first aired NaMo TV, a channel dedicated to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has said that he or his company isn’t involved in running the channel anymore. NaMo TV beamed on major direct-to-home networks Sunday.

“We were earlier involved with NaMo TV. We are not running it anymore,” Sujay Mehta told Business Standard over the phone from Ahmedabad. Mehta was asked when and to whom he transferred operations of NaMo TV. He replied, “I am not involved anymore. I do not know anything.”

The BJP hasn’t officially claimed ownership of NaMo TV, but the party’s official social media posts have urged people to watch Narendra Modi’s speeches on the channel. On March 31, when the channel suddenly appeared on TV, the BJP posted on social media, “Capture the colours of elections. Watch the dance of democracy. Say NaMo again with NaMo TV. Tune in to get real-time coverage of PM Modi’s election campaign and a lot more fascinating content.”

NaMo TV was aired by Mehta, a homoeopath, through a company called New Hope Infotainment incorporated in 2012. The channel was reportedly first aired in October 2012, a couple of months before assembly elections in Gujarat. The company was registered at the same address where Mehta runs his homeopathy clinic in Vastrapur locality of Ahmedabad…

PM insulting democracy by seeing Indians in terms of communities: Congress

‘He has insulted the freedom movement, he has insulted entire southern India’, said Randeep Singh Surjewala

Elections 2019: The Congress on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of dividing the country on the basis of religion and culture and demanded his apology even as it asked the Election Commission (EC) to take “decisive action” against him for violating the law. The opposition party also accused Modi of insulting democracy by trying to segment Indians in terms of castes and communities.

Congress’s chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala charged the prime minister with indulging in “cheap politics by sowing the seeds of hatred” among people and alleged that Modi had now gone to the extent of insulting India’s composite culture and the sacrifice of the people of south India during the freedom struggle.

“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has indulged in a corrupt practice under section 123 of the Representation of the People Act, besides violating the dignity of the office he holds and every other yardstick that is necessary and impeccable in public life. He must apologise to the nation.

“He has insulted the freedom movement, he has insulted entire southern India, he has insulted the composite culture of India, he has insulted the India that is unified by its multiple cultures and also languages, religions, castes and creeds, and the EC must take note of this and take decisive action against Modi,” he told reporters….

LS polls 2019: We’ve taken measures to set up chowkidar in space, says Modi

Modi came down heavily on opposition parties who he said ‘belittled’ the space achievement

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said his government had taken measures to set up a ‘chowkidar’ in space and asked people to vote for a government that can take concrete decisions and not just raise slogans.

Launching his campaign in eastern India with a rally in Jeypore area of Odisha’s Koraput district, the prime minister said the NDA government wouldn’t have been able to do any development work in the country without the support of the people. He sought blessings from his supporters for the 2019 lok Sabha elections and asserted that the NDA government has left no stone unturned to bring about development in the state.

“The NDA government has been working hard to develop road and rail infrastructure in the state. There is no dearth of funds when it comes to development work in the country. “In the last five years, the government has been able to build homes for eight lakh families, light up 3,000 houses and provide gas connections to 40 lakh homes,” Modi stated.

Referring to Mission Shakti, when India demonstrated anti-satellite (ASAT) missile capability by shooting down a live satellite, he said the government has taken measures to set up a ‘chowkidar’ (watchman ) in space. He came down heavily on opposition parties who he said “belittled” the space achievement. “Those that are criticising the anti-satellite technology will be given a befitting reply in the elections,” he claimed, urging people to vote for a government that can take concrete decisions, not the one that only raises slogans.

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Lok Sabha polls: Rahul Gandhi promises Rs 6,000 a month for poorest 20%

Congress pioneers said NYAY gets its motivation from Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of helping the last man and lady

Congress President Rahul Gandhi said his gathering, if it somehow happened to shape the legislature at the Center after the Lok Sabha races, would guarantee a base salary of Rs 6,000 every month to 20 percent most unfortunate of poor family units, or 250 million individuals. While the Narendra Modi government had guaranteed to Rs 6,000 every year to poor ranchers, the Congress has guaranteed a coordinating add up to all poor, especially the landless.

The gathering, notwithstanding, rejected its prior suggestion that visualized fixing up the hole between a poor family unit’s pay to convey it to Rs 12,000. It has now guaranteed a level Rs 6,000 every month stipend, or Rs 72,000 every year, if a family’s pay is underneath Rs 12,000. Gandhi said a board of trustees of gathering pioneers, which included Manmohan Singh and P Chidambaram, had determined that the fundamental living pay every family needs to endure is Rs 12,000.

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Calling the plan “keep going assault on neediness”, Gandhi said the salary would be exchanged to the ledgers of ladies in every family. The plan would cover rustic also urban poor. The execution will be founded on pilot extends the gathering intends to take up in the initial two years of its legislature, and the plan is probably going to be propelled in the third year.

As indicated by gathering sources, NYAY, or Nyuntam Aay Yojana, could subsume a portion of the current plans, especially maturity benefits. In any case, they denied any designs to scrap its country work ensure plot. The gathering said the financial weight at Rs 3.5 trillion for each annum would be around 1.2 percent of the GDP of India.

Maharashtra citizens file 400 poll code violation complaints via app cVIGIL

The application called ‘cVIGIL’, which stands for ‘citizens’ vigil’, is available on Google Play Store

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: The Maharashtra chief electoral office has received as many as 400 complaints of violation of the model code of conduct through its app cVIGIL, an official said on Wednesday.

The Election Commission in July last year launched the Android-based mobile application, using which a person can secretly send to it geo-tagged videos and photos of illegal money being distributed or a hate speech being made during polls. The application called ‘cVIGIL’, which stands for “citizens’ vigil”, is available on Google Play Store.

The model code of conduct for next month’s Lok Sabha polls came into effect on March 10 and most of the complaints were received by the state election office after that, the official said.

“Around 400 complaints have been received through cVIGIL across Maharashtra. The local team gets an alert once the complaint is lodged and our people reach the spot and verify the details. If the complaint is valid, we record the details and initiate an enquiry,” he said.He said the maximum number of 85 complaints were received from Pune, followed by Thane-61, Solapur-44, Mumbai suburban-40, Mumbai city-39 and Nagpur-26.

Most of the complaints were pertaining to banners put up without permission, the official said “There are no complaints so far of comments inciting violence or casteist remarks as hardly any public rallies have been held in the state,” he said. Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra will be held in four phases on April 11, 18, 23 and 29 while results will be declared on May 23.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: How to check voter information on computer, phone

Voting to elect the 17th Lok Sabha will be held over seven phases from April 11 to May 19 and the counting of votes will take place on May 23. Here’s how to check if your name figures in voters list

The Election Commission (EC) of India on March 10 announced the  Lok sabha Elections 2019 schedule. Polling will take place in seven phases from April 11 to May 19. With elections around the corner, you might like to check if your name figures in the voters list and verify your voter information, such as name, father’s name, address, constituency, booth and polling station. This information can be checked online on a computer or on a mobile phone. In case of information mismatch, you can also raise a request for changes from the comfort of your home.

Here are the steps for checking voter information online:

On a computer

Step 1: Open your internet browser and go to the National Voters’ Services Portal’s electoral search page (https://electoralsearch.in/).

Step 2: On the welcome page, the portal shows the facilities that you can avail of using the portal. These include searching your name in the National Electoral Roll. Click on the continue button at the bottom to go to the search window.

Step 3: The search window has two provisions to retrieve voters’ information. You can either fill in some basic details like name, date of birth, state, district, etc, to retrieve information, or use your EPIC card number (Voter identity card) to search for details…

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Congress rejects alliance with AAP for seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi

The AAP had suggested a formula of three seats each for AAP and Congress and leaving one seat for an independent candidate, possibly former union minister Yashwant Sinha

Unwilling to overcome their misgivings about Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Congress party’s Delhi unit on Tuesday rejected the possibility of a pre-poll alliance with the AAP for the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi.

The BJP had won all the seven seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, and a split in vote between the Congress and AAP could repeat the result in the city-state. The BJP has a consistent 33 to 36 per cent vote share in Delhi.

As in the case with West Bengal, where the local Congress unit has opposed any truck with the Trinamool Congress, party President Rahul Gandhi bowed to the wishes of the party’s Delhi unit that decided against an alliance with the AAP. Senior leaders of the Congress party’s Delhi unit, including Delhi unit chief Sheila Dikshit, met the Congress chief for nearly two hours in the morning. They conveyed to him their opposition to an alliance with AAP. “We have unanimously decided that we will not have an alliance with the AAP and we will contest alone and will emerge stronger,” Dikshit said.

Kejriwal accused the Congress of helping the BJP. “At a time when the whole country wants to defeat Modi- Shah duo, Cong is helping BJP by splitting the anti-BJP vote. Rumours are that the Congress has some secret understanding with the BJP. Delhi is ready to fight against a Cong-BJP alliance. People will defeat this unholy alliance,” Kejriwal tweeted…

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Onion prices fall 86%; poor farmers say they’ll make Modi pay in 2019 polls

Steep drops in recent weeks in the prices of onions and potatoes, both staple foods for India’s 1.3 billion people, have badly hit the rural economy in large states

Latest News: A spike in the price of onions has led to the ouster of governments in Indian elections in the past. Now, prices of the staple have collapsed, and many impoverished farmers are saying they will make Prime Minister Narendra Modi pay in next year’s general election.

Steep drops in recent weeks in the prices of onions and potatoes, both staple foods for India’s 1.3 billion people, have badly hit the rural economy in large states. In interviews with dozens of farmers last week, Reuters reporters found resentment welling against Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for not helping support incomes in the countryside, where a majority of the population lives.

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“Whatever they do in the coming months, I will vote against the BJP. I won’t repeat the 2014 mistake,” said Madhukar Nagare, an onion grower from Nashik in Maharashtra state, referring to his backing the BJP at the last general election.

In the 1998 state elections, a sharp spike in onion prices led to the fall of the BJP government in the capital New Delhi.In the 1980 general election, sky-high onion prices helped former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi dislodge a coalition government that had included politicians who later formed the BJP…

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