Internet Trends: November 2018

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Assembly Elections 2018: LIVE updates on Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram Assembly elections

BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Congress-ruled Mizoram vote to decide on new state government.

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Assembly Elections 2018: Voting for Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram Assembly elections is underway.

The battle of ballots in Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram is just months ahead of the Lok Sabha polls slated in the first half of 2019.

Results of the Assembly Elections 2018 will be declared on December 11.

Madhya Pradesh Elections 2018

Madhya Pradesh will vote to elect a 230-member Assembly, for which as many as 2,899 candidates, including 1,094 independents, are in the fray. BJP is contesting all the 230 seats, while the Congress has fielded 229 candidates, leaving one seat, Jatara in Tikamgarh district, for its ally -- Sharad Yadav's Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD).
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), contesting the Madhya Pradesh elections for the first time, has fielded 208 candidates.

Mizoram Elections 2018

Elections to the 40-member Assembly in Mizoram, which has a population of about 1 million, is significant for the BJP, which considers it to be the 'final frontier' in the region.
The Congress and the MNF have fielded 40 candidates each, while the BJP is contesting in 39 seats. The Zoram Peoples Movement (ZPM), an alliance formed by two political parties and four groups, is contesting in 35 seats.

Here is the link of the Live blog of Business Standard on MP & Mizoram elections:

Monday, November 26, 2018

10 years of 26/11: A timeline of the Mumbai Terror Attack

Ten years ago on this day, India's financial capital Mumbai faced the worst terror attack after 10 heavily armed terrorists sailed into the city.

Twenty-Six Eleven, as these attacks are often referred to as, witnessed 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists coming to Mumbai via sea route from Pakistan and carrying out a series of coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across the city.

The terrorists targeted 4 major landmarks of Mumbai:

First Attack Site: At the crowded Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) railway station.

Second Attack Site: At Nariman House business and residential complex.

Third Attack Site: At the Leopold Cafe followed by Taj Mahal Hotel and Tower.

Fourth Attack Site: At Oberoi-Trident hotel

The ghastly attacks lasted for three days of mayhem and bloodbath, killing 166 people and injuring over 300.

In these gruesome attacks, 9 terrorists were killed and the lone survivor, Ajmal Amir Kasab, was caught and was sentenced to death at Yerwada Central Jail in Pune in 2012.

The Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) was believed to have plotted the 26/11 attacks. Its mastermind, Hafiz Saeed, has however been roaming freely in Pakistan.

Pakistan has so far not completed trial in the 26/11 case.

Ties between India and Pakistan have remained tense since the 2008 Mumbai terror attack and nosedived after the Uri terror attack by Pakistan-based terrorists in September 2016, that claimed lives of 19 Indian soldiers.

As India remembers the victims of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks on its tenth anniversary today, various events will be organised across the nation, especially in Mumbai, to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the horrific attacks.

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