Leh: ‘Siachen Pioneers’, also known as 114 Helicopter Unit, celebrated its Golden Jubilee here on Sunday.

What it takes to be the largest democratic and election management exercise in the world? To answer it simply, well, it’s not easy.

New Dehli: BJP finalised the names of Smriti Irani from Amethi and Ajay Aggarwal from Rae Bareli seats.

New Delhi: The  of 2009 was the world’s largest democratic exercise so far. More than 8.3 lakh polling stations, one crore personnel on poll duty (including police personnel), 46.9 lakh polling staff and 20.9 lakh electronic voting machines were deployed to enable more than 71.7 crore registered electors to elect 543 representatives from among 8,070 candidates belonging to 363 political parties at a cost of 846.6 crore rupees to the central Government.

New Delhi: BJP leader Yashwant Sinha asked 18 questions to Finance Minister P Chidambaram on the economy state of country.

New Delhi: President of India Pranab Mukherjee addressed the Polio Free Conclave organised by the Rotary International. He also presented mementos of appreciation and recognition to former Health Minister Dr. A Ramadoss and Ghulam Nabi Azad, Union Health Minister for Health and Family Welfare. (Read In Hindi: राष्ट्रपति ने किया पोलियो मुक्ति समारोह को संबोधित)