US Presidential Election Result 2020: Trump wins North Carolina, electoral vote tally reaches 232
Trump campaigned aggressively in North Carolina with in-person rallies at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, including gatherings in Fayetteville, Winston-Salem and Greenville in the weeks before the election.
By Associated Press | Posted by Shankhyaneel Sarkar | Washington
UPDATED ON NOV 14, 2020 04:57 AM IST
President Donald Trump has won North Carolina and its 15 electoral votes, staving off a hard-fought challenge by Democratic nominee Joe Biden and holding the battleground state for Republicans.
Trump’s victory in North Carolina brings him to 232 electoral votes. Biden, who was declared the winner of the election on Nov. 7, has 290 electoral votes and defeated Trump by flipping Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona.
Trump campaigned aggressively in North Carolina with in-person rallies at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, including gatherings in Fayetteville, Winston-Salem and Greenville in the weeks before the election.
He was scheduled to hold the Republican National Convention in the state but pulled out after a fight with the state’s Democratic governor over coronavirus restrictions.
The Associated Press has still not called the presidential race in Georgia, which is conducting a recount.
'Unfortunate': CEC Sunil Arora on TMC allegation that BSF is 'coercing' voters
Written by Prashasti Singh, Kolkata
UPDATED ON JAN 22, 2021 07:11 PM IST
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said concerns of political parties in West Bengal about the law and order situation in the state during electioneering for the upcoming polls will be addressed by ensuring optimal deployment of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs).
Election Commission has zero-tolerance to money and muscle power: CEC Arora
PTI, Kolkata
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 07:04 PM IST
"The commission has zero-tolerance to money and muscle power or misuse of government machinery," the Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora told reporters. Adding that no civic police volunteers will be deployed for the upcoming assembly elections in the state.
Gave my resignation as I was troubled, mentally hurt: Rajib Banerjee
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Susmita Pakrasi, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 03:03 PM IST
- Rajib Banerjee resigned from the post amid speculations that he too may join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the state assembly elections.
West Bengal Govt under debt of crores of rupees, says former TMC MLA
ANI, Kolkata
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 01:18 PM IST
While saying that development of Bengal is the only reason behind his joining BJP, Arindam Bhattacharya accused TMC of misleading the people.
Ahead of elections, TMC says BSF being misused
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 07:14 AM IST
The BJP, meanwhile has alleged that at least 400,000- 500,000 Rohingyas, who illegally entered the country through the Indo-Bangla border, have been included in the voters’ list and urged the poll panel to order a special audit of the electoral roll.
BJP asks ECI to deploy CAPF a fortnight before polling day in Bengal
ANI, Kolkata
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 07:14 AM IST
It also said that live webcasting should be made available inside critical polling stations and its feed should be made available to political parties.
Congress runs for cover in Assam after new ally AIUDF chief sparks a row
UPDATED ON JAN 22, 2021 12:06 AM IST
- The Assam Congress will speak to its alliance partners to ensure that "such utterances are not made by any of our partners in future, the state unit chief said after AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal's controversial statement
BJP’s Dilip Ghosh alleges names of Rohingyas included in electoral rolls
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Shankhyaneel Sarkar, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JAN 21, 2021 02:39 PM IST
- Ghosh said that he told the officials to ensure that polling is conducted in a peaceful manner.
TMC alleges BSF threatening voters in border areas, lodges complaint with CEC
PTI, Kolkata
PUBLISHED ON JAN 21, 2021 01:43 PM IST
The Border Security Force (BSF) is yet to issue a reaction to the TMC's allegation.
Biden-Harris era begins: Some key ‘firsts’ of the new US administration
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Karan Manral
UPDATED ON JAN 21, 2021 01:08 PM IST
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn-in on Wednesday as the new President and Vice President of the US, respectively.
BJP provoking hatred in Bengal by communal speeches: TMC
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Susmita Pakrasi, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JAN 21, 2021 01:19 PM IST
Three BJP activists including its Hooghly district youth wing chief Suresh Sahu have been arrested for allegedly raising a controversial slogan at a roadshow of party leader Suvendu Adhikari, police said.
From immigration to health: Biden moves swiftly to unwind Trump policies
Bloomberg
UPDATED ON JAN 21, 2021 08:26 AM IST
Joe Biden’s aides say he’ll sign more Day One executive actions than any of his predecessors, to be followed by additional regulatory and policy changes over the coming weeks.
On Day 1, Biden sets the ball rolling on immigration, climate change, Covid-19
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Kanishka Sarkar
UPDATED ON JAN 21, 2021 08:28 AM IST
“There’s no time to start like today," Joe Biden said in his first comments to reporters as president.
Ancestral village in Tamil Nadu celebrates Kamala Harris' feat
By Divya Chandrababu
UPDATED ON JAN 21, 2021 07:41 AM IST
Villagers have been lighting fireworks and distributing sweets, while posters of Harris were pasted on the walls of the village, and children flashed placards featuring the first person of South Asian descent and the first woman to rise to the office of the US vice-president.
'Day of history, hope': US President Joe Biden
UPDATED ON JAN 21, 2021 07:38 AM IST
With his hand on a five-inch thick heirloom Bible that has been in his family for more than a century, Biden took the oath of office administered by US Chief Justice John Roberts that binds the president to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”.