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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: What is election symbol and how do candidates get it? | Explained
India | Mar 28, 2024, 07:09 PM ISTThe Election Commission is responsible for holding elections throughout the country. Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases. The political parties have begun announcing their candidates for the polls. They have also started giving their candidates symbols. What are election symbols?
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Sharad Pawar-led NCP new flag, symbol released. Check here
Maharashtra | Mar 01, 2024, 11:44 AM ISTThe Sharad Pawar-founded NCP split in July last year after Ajit Pawar and eight other MLAs joined the Eknath Shinde government.
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Pakistan: 'Terrorist party cannot be allotted...', says Maryam Nawaz on PTI's 'bat' symbol row
World | Jan 16, 2024, 01:46 PM ISTPakistan's Supreme Court on Saturday rejected an attempt by former prime minister Imran Khan's PTI to retain its traditional electoral symbol of a cricket bat. The PTI founder alleged there were efforts to eliminate the PTI under the covert 'London Plan', referring to Nawaz Sharif's exile.
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Pakistan: Imran Khan's PTI gets 'bat' electoral symbol back after high court suspends ECP order
World | Dec 26, 2023, 08:59 PM ISTLast week, the ECP revoked the PTI's claim on its iconic 'bat' symbol, ahead of the general elections scheduled on February 8. The Peshawar HC on Tuesday suspended the ECP order and said that the symbol would be restored till another bench reaches a final decision after the winter vacations.
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Pakistan: ECP declares internal polls of Imran Khan's PTI 'unconstitutional', party loses bat symbol
World | Dec 23, 2023, 11:28 AM ISTThis is the second time in less than a month that the ECP has rejected the PTI's intra-party polls after rejecting last year's internal elections on November 23. The party further claimed that it would still win the elections and that candidates would contest the polls with the ‘bat' symbol.
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Pakistan: Imran Khan's party ordered by ECP to conduct fresh intra-party polls within 20 days
World | Nov 28, 2023, 04:30 PM ISTOn November 23, the Election Commission said that the intra-party polls held last year were objectionable and controversial, saying that it had amended the constitution before the elections. The fresh elections will have to be conducted as per the time frame set by the ECP to retain the bat symbol.
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Uddhav Thackeray challenges EC's decision on freezing Shiv Sena name, symbol
India | Oct 10, 2022, 05:36 PM ISTShiv Sena bow and arrow symbol row: The petition has arrayed ECI and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknathrao Sambhaji Shinde as parties.
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EC bars Thackeray, Shinde camps from using Shiv Sena name, party's 'Bow & Arrow' symbol
India | Oct 08, 2022, 11:57 PM ISTIn its interim order, EC said in Andheri East bye polls, neither of the two factions -- Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde -- shall be permitted to use the symbol "Bow & Arrow", reserved for "Shivsena".
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'Z' - Putin's swastika, propaganda sign or a war symbol? Explained
World | May 09, 2022, 01:32 PM ISTVisuals of flashmobs in the country show people wearing 'Z' t-shirts and hoodies. A rather disturbing image also showed terminally ill children in Kazan forming a Z to support the invasion of Ukraine. There is no letter 'Z' in the Russian script. So what does the marking mean?
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Pakistani man selling shoes with sacred Hindu symbol ‘Om’ arrested for blasphemy
World | Jun 21, 2016, 06:30 AM ISTKarachi: Pakistani police on Monday arrested a shopkeeper under the majority-Muslim country’s tough blasphemy laws for selling shoes with a sacred Hindu symbol 'Om' inscribed in it, police and Hindu leaders said. Police also seized
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Rakhi Sawant floats Rashtriya Aam Party, seeks green chilli symbol
India | Mar 30, 2014, 10:58 AM ISTMumbai: Bollywood item girl Rakhi Sawant, who is contesting the Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate from Mumbai North West, has floated Rashtriya Aam Party. In one of the billboards, Rakhi Sawant has worn
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EC requests HC to dismisses AIADMK's plea against its order
India | Mar 20, 2014, 07:55 AM ISTChennai: The ECI yesterday requested the Madras High Court to dismiss a petition filed by AIADMK General Secretary J Jayalalithaa challenging the order of the Commission to cover pictures of two leaves on small buses
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Karunanidhi Says, DMK Not A Party, But A Symbol Of Tamil Race
National | Jun 08, 2011, 07:46 PM ISTChennai, Jun 8: Slamming Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for her statement that DMK could never bounce back as people had rejected it, the party chief M Karunanidhi today said it was "sheer madness" to write off
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Indian Rupee To Have A Distinct Symbol
India | Jul 15, 2010, 07:34 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Indian rupee will have its own symbol, a mix of the Devanagri 'Ra' and Roman 'R', to become the fifth currency in the world to have a distinct identity. The new symbol,