Election Commission announces seven phase of polling beginning the 10th of February five states to go to the polls amidst Cove it scare with Major Cove. It curbs on campaigning. Counting day counting the 10th of March. No physical rallies of would show. Still the 15th of January. The Election Commission imposes a moratorium on all physical rallies roadshows for the ah Tre cycle or any vehicle rallies till the 15th. Amidst and omicron search is that in only 52% of the population is a vaccinated, one third of for up and Punjab only vaccinated. So far. PC defends its decision to go ahead with elections despite a frightening surge of Cove in 19 cases in the third wave. The holding of timely elections is the essence of maintaining a democratic governance, says the chief election commissioner. New restrictions in Maharashtra as it logs 41,430 for new covert cases. The movement of a maximum of five people from five AM to 11 PM only for essential purposes only fully vaccinated to be allowed on public transport, schools and colleges. Closed till the 15th. India reports one lakh 41,000 new cases 21% higher than yesterday. Deli reports 20,000 fresh covet cases in 19% positivity rate alone. Welcome The Election Commission has sounded the poor viewable for the five states, um, it's a threat of a third wave of the Corona virus. Defending its decision, the said that the holding of timely elections is the essence of maintaining democratic governance. However, it has for now placed a moratorium on rallies and roadshow sel the 15th of January, promising to review this if cases surged further. India reported over one point for one lakh new cases on Saturday, up 21% from the day before. No rallies, No road shows no victory parade at least till the 15th of January. Unusual rules for an unusual time as the Election Commission tried to balance the compulsion to hold an election with a raging pandemic. After taking all these views and the opinions and the ground situation, we decided to announce election to the five states with safety norms in place. The polls itself followed the pattern last time a massive seven phase election in up from the 10th of February to the seventh of March, while Punjab Tareq hand and go A will vote on a single date on the 14th of February two phases in Manipur, 27th of February and the third of March counting on the 10th of March, political parties welcomed the announcement of the polls. Sworn in Asta Extraordinary mocha impart Raja Way Election Clear Tae Arctic Amara Sarkar Go Me or mas boot Cassatt You will be last election. Compare Gato or open a shifty Bottega Amara Sita happen Punjab. I do welcome the announcement and ours State will press in a two phase one is on 27 worry and second prayers will be on no roadshow for ya Tra cycle bike, vehicle rally and procession shall be allowed till 3 17,022 Nor known, a curse of hearts will be allowed on public roads, roundabout or public streets or corners While the Election Commission has announced a comprehensive Kuwait drylands for the upcoming assembly elections in five states, The real challenge for the whole body is to implement this on the ground with camera person Sakhon Gia, this is Arvin gonna take for NDTV or right? Also, let's take a look at the dates polling will be held over seven phases, starting in up on the 10th of February. With the counting of votes schedule for the 10th of March will be voting in each of the seven phases. Those are the dates the 10th of February 14 20th, the 23rd of February 27th and then March 3rd one ing up on the seventh of March. Punjab Goa Uttarakhand will vote on Valentine's Day, February 14. Manipur will vote in two phases February 27th and the third of March. The BJP is in power and four of the states the congress in power in the last date. That, of course, is jobs orders his next month going to look like. While no rallies of political campaign events will be allowed between eight p.m. And eight AM every day in all, political parties have been urged to campaign digitally where possible, limit the activities and public Dr Go campaigning is not limited to five people per campaigning team voting hours in all states have been extended by an hour. Only 2201 1000 250 people will be allowed for boots. I mean and further all for the more all polling stations are to be equipped right sanitizers in the staff costs have to wear masks or pulling staff for the cells have been doubly vaccinated and will get those precautionary doses. Water, as known in India as a precautionary doors with globally, is known as the boost A short and as the cove it curbs loom on the ground. In new P, parties have already switched gears, putting into play their virtual campaigns and altering their outreach strategies. And Akhilesh Yadav, Yogi Adit Yana post a war minutes after the election commission announced a seven phase poll for India's most populous state, banning physical rallies and roadshows for a week across the whole bound states amid the covert surge like the previous election, this one will also move from the western part of up to its eastern part. In the 2017 election, the BJP and its allies won a massive 3 25 out of 403 assembly seats. The Rally and Roadshow ban affects both big political players in up the BJP has ensured big crowds at multiple Kwasi political events by PM, Modi in up in the last two months, while main challenger Akhilesh Yadav has already finished 11 phases. Office popular Samajwadi Vijay Ya Tras but with the covet situation looking unrelenting, already weak elaborations are in place not only for the BJP and the Samajwadi Party, but also for the Congress. 90 minutes before the poll for announced the Congress's Priyanka Gandhi vat Dra went live on Facebook with the party's first women centric Lucky WHO. Large Sakti Hoon Digital Campaign. The party is creating WhatsApp groups for each Assembly constituency already pushing campaign videos like this one. Election Commissioner Joe Shark Attack Younger Shark Conga Palin Yoga Election Commission car maybe medical K C. V. Name Costa Carney, Me Mana. The BJP already has a robust social media campaign in place, including WhatsApp groups for each polling booths and trucks with led screams March it does harm by a school the Uttar Pradesh with Han Sawa Chan. Okay, Panama India Prachanda, Mohammed Cassatt Gente Jann Arden Cash reward propped a carny me so far Hoagie as a model Cole of conduct kicked him. Officials across up scrambled to remove posters and hoarding another worry for up just 52% of the eligible population, most of them voters, are fully vaccinated against covered with cameraperson. Vinay Verma. This is a low Sunday. NDTV Meanwhile, Maharashtra's new has put in place new curbs as the status seeing an exponential rise in covet cases. The other Thackeray government has now barred gatherings over more than five people, and there's much more. Let's go cross through a sort of Gupta sort of. What is this going to mean for mum bikers, Maharashtra INS going forward and for how long? Colin A. Mumbai has been consistently reporting over 20,000 cases over the last few days. And, of course, today, what we know is that a new set of restrictions have come in. This is something that is a long expected line, and the new restrictions mainly you know from the public point of view, are that no movement took five or more from 5 to 11 PM no movement from 11 PM five government offices. No visitors except express it, innit? Information of the heads of online interactions to be enabled by for all Argentine coming from the from outside or the campus or headquarter and then also rationalisation of employees present during officers promoting work from home. The second thing, of course, is that the head of strict at the appropriate baby and then thermal scanners have surged. I It is all of that for private died line nationalised percent are 24 also only fully employed to attend office. Basically, no non employees must be encouraged to get back in it soon as possible for people and for funeral. Last night's only 20 people back clues in policies against clothes remained close to the February except for activities required to be on taken for various educational ports already in there. Always and all will people gaoled part the centres and along to the main closed remain open the the and also be deferred and a payment to park to other ticket in places. Long condolence spot to remain alone Also, shops markets more with, you know and also, you know, there are several other restrictions that have come in function cinemas and the men travel again. You know, with either take it or not to All of these things are restrictions that are coming in. Some of them, many of them, are already in place, and some of them have been added to ensure that the one week or so reporting from Maharashtra, the state with the highest number of cases followed, of course by Delhi Delhi, which on Saturday reported 20,181 fresh Corbett cases. That's the highest single day rice since May last year. The capital city also reported seven deaths over the last 24 hours in the positivity rate has climbed to 19.60%. Deserted markets and roots in the national capital on the first day of weekend curfew as a weekend curfew came into effect on Friday at 10 PM It will continue till five AM on Monday. During the curfew market, Smalls are shut only grocery shops. Pharmacies allowed to open metro services, buses, taxis, auto rickshaws allowed. People can step out to shop for essential items like food medicines. People can travel to airport. Railway station is BDS with valid tickets. Essential services personnel are exempt from the curfew. Students are bearing for exams. Examination staff are also exempt. Devotees can visit Gurdwara on Sunday For Guru Gobind Singh Birth University. The restrictions are already impacting livelihoods. Cam Damn body Madaba Romney acted in Be curfew. Garcia Inimical, right? Some basic reading going ex Sorry, Anna Baripada Coming in Jakarta. Gar Vehicle, Dakar Gamatoria Service to balance in even part of balance out log Nobody The Kataria customer Any rival battery over cast ammonium market as cases on Monday reached 20,000 in Delhi, with positivity rate rising consistently, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority will meet on Monday to review who would preparedness and restrictions it. Restrictions are not brought in by the government. Then it's difficult to break the chain of transmission of the virus and if restrictions are implemented, then it hurts employment of a lot of people. And while both of these choices are very difficult for the government, the simpler solution is if people comply with Cupid appropriate behaviour strictly so that the case is only do not rise and restrictions are not required in the first. The THE and Was Worries at a new global study has says that India's covet told could be six times more than what has been reported so far. This the Global Sorry published in the Science journal and and estimates that the India's deaths could be 3.2 million India's report of 483 1001 178 covert debts, nearly 71% of the death during the Delta wave in April to June 2021 covered is likely to have double the total deaths recorded in April June 2021. What's behind this? Under reporting While according to the study, this was due to an incomplete certification of Cove it deaths to a miss attribution of two chronic deaths and the study's based on data use him in all India telephone survey deaths reported by hospitals and the civil registration systems. Let's go across shift gears to new some around the country. Now let's go across wanna ragged wory who is reporting on it? Raids act the premises of a liquor. Businessmen in a transporter in Madhya Pradesh unwrapped what you have. What have we found? We have the video, you of centres water we looking at? Yes. After poll bound Uttar Pradesh now tax raids in adjoining Madhya Pradesh and which have thrown up up to Saurabh unaccounted cash, which was, among other places inside an underground water tank. Income tax department of you know, searches at more than 10 promises owned by the politically influential right family in the war, which started at around five AM on Thursday and ended at around 11 30 PM on Friday. And has this raid has thrown up enormous unaccounted cash totaling over rupees eight crore and out of the unaccounted cash which has been recovered from the raided premises around one crore, was starred in a bag and put in Sidon underground. What the time? The the idea department had to use a hair dried and sloth Iran to drive the 2500 currency notes recovered from the underground water tanks before counting them. With multiple currency notes of you know counting machines and the video of the bag containing cash and bread. Currency notes being grind of being dried up with floats, hair and rare have gone viral. The Rye family comprises for Brother Shankar I. Kemal Rye, Raju Rai and Sanjay Rai. The family has stakes in multiple businesses, including Linder Trade Transport Shankar I was a former chairman of Jammu Nagar Calica with Congress Support, but the Brother Kamal, rivals former chairman of the same municipality with BJP support and sank Arise Sons is a local Congress leader. Interestingly, in 2019 January iava Hard Jaiswal, a former Samajwadi Party MP from Chan Dollies he talks Eastern up was arrested by U P S T m from the premises of the same Sanjay Rai in more district was gonna run in a murder case. Jason Wallace also Big linker barren and hotel help from Varanasi, who has been with the BJP also in the past and they have close ties. No neighbouring up, ragged wory reporting there. Thanks for that. And on Saturday, the Ministry of Home Affairs restored the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act registration off the Missionaries of Charity. The registration is a mandatory requirement to receive foreign funds. The Home Ministry had earlier said that the NGOs application was rejected for failing to meet illegitimate eligibility conditions, and the charity was informed of this on none other than Christmas, say the 25th of December. However, on Friday, the Missionaries of Charity was added back to the list of 1030 NGOs eligible to receive foreign funding in West Bengal and the Trinamool Derek O'Brien tweeted a screenshot of the website announcing it on Saturday morning.
