Teachers, Graduates constituencies’ elections: Counting begins
Bengaluru: The counting of votes for the recently held biennial elections to the State Legislative Council from Teachers and Graduates constituency has begun.
The counting process is underway in the RC College in Bengaluru. Police security has been beefed up around the college as a precautionary measure.
The counting process
As the polling was held by ballot papers, first the papers will be removed from the boxes and made into bundles of 25 each without scrutinising the contents. After mixing all these bundles of ballot papers, 500 ballot papers will be distributed to the counting table for separating valid and invalid votes and for distribution of first preference votes to candidates.
A candidate, who secures 50% per cent of the valid first preference votes plus one, will be declared the winner in the counting of first preference votes. The counting of the second and third preference votes will be taken up after counting of the first preference votes.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
— Bareilly Police (@bareillypolice) November 24, 2024
