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FASTag Not Working At Toll Plaza? Here's What Highway Authority Suggests
Why damaged FASTags cause scanning issues at toll plazas, and when motorists should replace them - we explain.
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'Profession Tainted By Hooliganism': Court Slams Lawyers In Toll Plaza Case
Coming down heavily on lawyers who vandalised a toll plaza and ransacked a fellow advocate's office because he represented the toll plaza employees, the Supreme Court has said the legal profession, once considered noble, is now tainted by such acts
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Man Rescued After Being Trapped In Manchester Phone Box While Ordering Kebab
A man was rescued by firefighters after being trapped in a Manchester red phone box for over an hour when the door slammed shut while he tried to order a kebab.
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After Karnataka MLAs Slam Toll Plaza Staff, Activists Say "VIP Culture"
A debate over "VIP culture" has flared up once again in Karnataka after Congress MLA SN Subbareddy moved a motion seeking action against staff at state toll plazas for allegedly misbehaving with the public and with MLAs, MLCs and former legislators.
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"Papa Bade Karze Mei Hai": Akshay Kumar Assures Help To Needy Fan Outside Poll Booth
Akshay Kumar directed the woman to his team
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"Where 10,000 Deployed...": Supreme Court Pushes States Over Booth Officer Deaths
The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed serious concern over the deaths of men and women some by suicide working as booth-level officers, or BLOs, to revise state voter lists.
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Bengal Booth Level Officers In Massive Protest Outside Poll Body Office
Grassroots poll officials in Bengal - at the centre of a row over mental health and working conditions during the revision of voter lists - staged a massive protest Monday afternoon outside the Chief Electoral Officer's Kolkata office.
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Long Hours, Little Pay, Extreme Pressure: What It Means To Be A Booth Officer (BLO)
The intense workload for the ongoing voter list cleanup drive has left booth-level officers (BLOs) struggling to meet their deadlines across the country, sparking political outrage over alleged deaths and suicides due to stress.
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"Booth Officials Being Threatened Openly": Bengal BJP Chief Criticises Poll Body
BJP's West Bengal unit chief Samik Bhattacharya today raised serious concerns over Booth Level Officers (BLOs) "being intimidated in full public view," while criticising the Election Commission.
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"Doctors Coerced To Say Suicide Due To SIR": BJP Leader Locket Chatterjee
BJP leader Locket Chatterjee alleged that doctors are being pressured to attribute suicides to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in death certificates.
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UP Teacher Working As Booth Level Officer Dies After Consuming Poison
A teacher deployed as a Booth Level Officer (BLO) here died on Tuesday after allegedly consuming a poisonous substance, officials said.
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Deaths, Suicide Claims, Resignations: What's Pushing Poll Officers To Edge
At least nine Booth-Level Officers - foot soldiers in the contentious revision of voter lists before a flurry of Assembly elections next year - have died, by suicide or otherwise, across the country over the past week, including in poll-bound West Be
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Bengal Poll Officer Returning From SIR Duty Dies, Minister Meets Family
A Booth Level Officer (BLO) died in a road accident while returning home after completing work related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district on Thursday.
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Rajasthan Official Dies Of Heart Attack, Family Claims SIR Workload To Blame
A Booth Level Officer (BLO) engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) work died of a heart attack in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district on Wednesday morning, minutes after receiving a phone call from the tehsildar, his family members alleged.
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Bengal Poll Officer Allegedly Dies By Suicide; Work Pressure, Says Family
Tension spread in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district after the body of a woman booth level officer (BLO) was found in the courtyard of her house in a suspected case of death by suicide.
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FASTag Not Working At Toll Plaza? Here's What Highway Authority Suggests
Why damaged FASTags cause scanning issues at toll plazas, and when motorists should replace them - we explain.
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'Profession Tainted By Hooliganism': Court Slams Lawyers In Toll Plaza Case
Coming down heavily on lawyers who vandalised a toll plaza and ransacked a fellow advocate's office because he represented the toll plaza employees, the Supreme Court has said the legal profession, once considered noble, is now tainted by such acts
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Man Rescued After Being Trapped In Manchester Phone Box While Ordering Kebab
A man was rescued by firefighters after being trapped in a Manchester red phone box for over an hour when the door slammed shut while he tried to order a kebab.
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After Karnataka MLAs Slam Toll Plaza Staff, Activists Say "VIP Culture"
A debate over "VIP culture" has flared up once again in Karnataka after Congress MLA SN Subbareddy moved a motion seeking action against staff at state toll plazas for allegedly misbehaving with the public and with MLAs, MLCs and former legislators.
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"Papa Bade Karze Mei Hai": Akshay Kumar Assures Help To Needy Fan Outside Poll Booth
Akshay Kumar directed the woman to his team
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"Where 10,000 Deployed...": Supreme Court Pushes States Over Booth Officer Deaths
The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed serious concern over the deaths of men and women some by suicide working as booth-level officers, or BLOs, to revise state voter lists.
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Bengal Booth Level Officers In Massive Protest Outside Poll Body Office
Grassroots poll officials in Bengal - at the centre of a row over mental health and working conditions during the revision of voter lists - staged a massive protest Monday afternoon outside the Chief Electoral Officer's Kolkata office.
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Long Hours, Little Pay, Extreme Pressure: What It Means To Be A Booth Officer (BLO)
The intense workload for the ongoing voter list cleanup drive has left booth-level officers (BLOs) struggling to meet their deadlines across the country, sparking political outrage over alleged deaths and suicides due to stress.
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"Booth Officials Being Threatened Openly": Bengal BJP Chief Criticises Poll Body
BJP's West Bengal unit chief Samik Bhattacharya today raised serious concerns over Booth Level Officers (BLOs) "being intimidated in full public view," while criticising the Election Commission.
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"Doctors Coerced To Say Suicide Due To SIR": BJP Leader Locket Chatterjee
BJP leader Locket Chatterjee alleged that doctors are being pressured to attribute suicides to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in death certificates.
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UP Teacher Working As Booth Level Officer Dies After Consuming Poison
A teacher deployed as a Booth Level Officer (BLO) here died on Tuesday after allegedly consuming a poisonous substance, officials said.
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Deaths, Suicide Claims, Resignations: What's Pushing Poll Officers To Edge
At least nine Booth-Level Officers - foot soldiers in the contentious revision of voter lists before a flurry of Assembly elections next year - have died, by suicide or otherwise, across the country over the past week, including in poll-bound West Be
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Bengal Poll Officer Returning From SIR Duty Dies, Minister Meets Family
A Booth Level Officer (BLO) died in a road accident while returning home after completing work related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district on Thursday.
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Rajasthan Official Dies Of Heart Attack, Family Claims SIR Workload To Blame
A Booth Level Officer (BLO) engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) work died of a heart attack in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district on Wednesday morning, minutes after receiving a phone call from the tehsildar, his family members alleged.
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Bengal Poll Officer Allegedly Dies By Suicide; Work Pressure, Says Family
Tension spread in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district after the body of a woman booth level officer (BLO) was found in the courtyard of her house in a suspected case of death by suicide.
