Counting Centre

The Election Commission today admitted a mobile phone of an "authorised person" was used by the aide of a candidate "unauthorisedly" while votes were being counted in Mumbai North West Lok Sabha seat.

After a total of 642 million voters exercised their franchise over the last one-and-a-half months in the seven-phase polls, the counting began on Tuesday at 8 am.

At a field hospital that has become one of Gaza's main trauma centres, a doctor who has worked in a dozen war zones described the situation as the most "catastrophic" he had ever seen.

In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Election Commission and the Centre on a plea seeking a complete count of VVPAT slips in polls.

Satellite imagery analysed by the United Nations Satellite Centre shows that 30% of the Gaza Strip's buildings have been destroyed or damaged in the Israel offensive in the densely populated Palestinian enclave.

Gaza's main telecoms company said Sunday that mobile and internet services had gradually been restored in the centre and south of the beseiged Palestinian territory, after the latest service disruption.

Counting of votes in elections to the 90-member Chhattisgarh assembly are underway with security personnel maintaining a strict vigil in counting centres in the state's 33 districts, including those affected by Left Wing Extremism, a poll official s

The death number from a fire at a drug rehabilitation centre in northern Iran rose to 32, local media reported today, up from an earlier count of 27.

The death count from the series of blasts at a convention centre in Kerala's Kalamassery increased to three on Monday. A 12-year-old girl, who was among over 50 people injured in the blast at a Christian religious gathering on Sunday,

The Congress strongly criticised the centre after a 2-month-old video surfaced online showing two women being paraded naked by a mob in Manipur.

Three sealed and uncounted ballot boxes were recovered from a high school at Gajol in West Bengal's Malda district today morning.

West Bengal BJP President, Sukanta Majumdar, sat on a dharna outside a counting centre at Balurghat College under Dakshin Dinajpur district, alleging fabrication in Panchayat poll results, counting for which started earlier in the day.

Violence, which has been part of this year's panchayat elections in West Bengal since before they were announced, continued to mar the process even on counting day today.

A police constable tasked with the security of ballot boxes at a vote counting centre in the Kokhraj area of this Uttar Pradesh district died on duty under "suspicious circumstances", officials said on Thursday.

The Assam forest department has urged the Centre to take action against an RTI activist who, by "falsely" alleging that it inflated the number of rhinos in the Kaziranga National Park, sought to bring disrepute to the KNP.

The Election Commission today admitted a mobile phone of an "authorised person" was used by the aide of a candidate "unauthorisedly" while votes were being counted in Mumbai North West Lok Sabha seat.

After a total of 642 million voters exercised their franchise over the last one-and-a-half months in the seven-phase polls, the counting began on Tuesday at 8 am.

At a field hospital that has become one of Gaza's main trauma centres, a doctor who has worked in a dozen war zones described the situation as the most "catastrophic" he had ever seen.

In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Election Commission and the Centre on a plea seeking a complete count of VVPAT slips in polls.

Satellite imagery analysed by the United Nations Satellite Centre shows that 30% of the Gaza Strip's buildings have been destroyed or damaged in the Israel offensive in the densely populated Palestinian enclave.

Gaza's main telecoms company said Sunday that mobile and internet services had gradually been restored in the centre and south of the beseiged Palestinian territory, after the latest service disruption.

Counting of votes in elections to the 90-member Chhattisgarh assembly are underway with security personnel maintaining a strict vigil in counting centres in the state's 33 districts, including those affected by Left Wing Extremism, a poll official s

The death number from a fire at a drug rehabilitation centre in northern Iran rose to 32, local media reported today, up from an earlier count of 27.

The death count from the series of blasts at a convention centre in Kerala's Kalamassery increased to three on Monday. A 12-year-old girl, who was among over 50 people injured in the blast at a Christian religious gathering on Sunday,

The Congress strongly criticised the centre after a 2-month-old video surfaced online showing two women being paraded naked by a mob in Manipur.

Three sealed and uncounted ballot boxes were recovered from a high school at Gajol in West Bengal's Malda district today morning.

West Bengal BJP President, Sukanta Majumdar, sat on a dharna outside a counting centre at Balurghat College under Dakshin Dinajpur district, alleging fabrication in Panchayat poll results, counting for which started earlier in the day.

Violence, which has been part of this year's panchayat elections in West Bengal since before they were announced, continued to mar the process even on counting day today.

A police constable tasked with the security of ballot boxes at a vote counting centre in the Kokhraj area of this Uttar Pradesh district died on duty under "suspicious circumstances", officials said on Thursday.

The Assam forest department has urged the Centre to take action against an RTI activist who, by "falsely" alleging that it inflated the number of rhinos in the Kaziranga National Park, sought to bring disrepute to the KNP.