Mangaluru : The final declaration of results may not be as fast as it was earlier, for the 17th Lok Sabha on Thursday as the Election Commission of India has adopted an elaborate procedure, including tallying of votes in randomly selected five EVMs and their VVPATs for each Assembly constituency, before declaring results. Speaking to […]
Hyderabad: The TRS looked set to form its second successive government in Telangana with a thumping majority after taking an unassailable lead in 90 seats, according to the latest vote count Tuesday, a clear vindication of party chief K Chandrasekhar Rao’s popularity. Soon after the vote count began at 8 a.m., it became clear that […]
Mangaluru : The state Assembly elections in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts begun at 7 am and concluded at 6 pm without any unwanted incident. Dakshina Kannada district at 6pm 77.63% declared, Mangaluru South recording a turnout of 67.47%, Mangaluru North 74.55%, Beltangady 81.40%, Moodbidri 75.41%, Bantwal 81.89%, Puttur 81.70% and Sullia 83%. Altogether, 24 control units, […]
Mangaluru: The Election Commission and all district administrations have organised awareness initiatives to register transgenders in the voters’ list and ensure they also exercise their franchise. They are categorised as Others in the list. According to the final list for 2018, 4,552 transgenders have registered. This excludes new additions following Minchina Nondani which concluded on […]
Mangaluru: In relation to the upcoming Legislative Assembly elections, the first phase of checking the voting machine and VVPAT has been successfully completed. In the second phase, a mock election will be conducted in the presence of political party representatives, informed Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Sasikanth Senthil. He was speaking at a meeting conducted at […]
Mangaluru: Mangaluru North Constituency Election Officer Prashanth Kumar has informed that the booth level awareness programmes for voters on EVMs and VVPAT will be held from April 12 in the constituency. He informed this after a meeting with elected representatives of Mangaluru North constituency at the MCC Meeting Hall on April 9, Monday. The local […]
Chikkamagaluru: Zilla Panchayat CEO C Sathyabhama called upon the voters to exercise franchise judiciously to strengthen the democracy. “It is our duty to elect representatives in the democratic setup. The right to exercise franchise should not be neglected,” she said. She was speaking at the voter awareness and EVM/VVPAT demonstration held at Nethaji Subhashchandra Bose […]
Mangaluru: After casting the vote on the electronic voting machine, a voter has to look at the VVPAT (Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail) displaying the printout containing the serial number, party symbol and the photo of the candidate he/ she has chosen. This printout is displayed in the VVPAT for a period of seven seconds […]
Mangaluru: Deputy Commissioner Sasikanth Senthil said that the district administration has written to CMFRI, to look into the reason for the increase in pollution in Phalguni river. To a query from reporters, he said that a committee of experts and district officials have been formed. According to the initial report, pollution had increased since the […]
