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Patna: Patna district administration issued several directives on Saturday for the first phase of the primary agricultural cooperative credit society (PACS) elections scheduled for November 26. These elections will take place across eight blocks in the district – Dulhin Bazaar, Danapur, Naubatpur, Patna Sadar, Punpun, Phulwarisharif, Paliganj and Masaurhi. IPL 2025 mega auction IPL Auction 2025: Who got whom IPL 2025 Auction: Updated Full Team Squads Polling will be conducted from 7am to 4.30pm and the counting will start at 8am the next day. According to the administration's order, contestants must camp beyond a 200-metre radius of polling booths and Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code will be enforced in the respective panchayat areas on polling day to maintain order. "A total of 68 patrolling teams have been deployed to ensure voting is conducted in an impartial, fair, peaceful and fear-free environment," said a joint order issued by district magistrate-cum-electoral officer Chandrashekhar Singh and senior superintendent of police Rajiv Mishra. The maximum number of teams, 15, has been deployed for Paliganj; 10 each for Masaurhi and Naubatpur; eight for Phulwarisharif; seven each for Dulhin Bazaar, Danapur and Punpun and four for Patna Sadar. The patrolling magistrates will also be responsible for collecting ballot boxes after polling and depositing them at the designated strongrooms or counting centres. "The magistrates are required to report at their dispatch centres on Monday at 9am to collect election-related materials and hand them over to the presiding officers of the polling centres," the order read. Magistrates are further tasked with reporting voting percentages for women and men from every polling booth every two hours. "This information will be relayed to the electoral officers at regular intervals," the order added. Block development officers have been asked to establish control rooms at block head offices on polling day and to deploy sufficient officers and staff to manage complaints and ensure smooth operations. Also, each control room will be equipped with a fire brigade unit and an ambulance, staffed with doctors and stocked with necessary medicines. Deputy development commissioner Sameer Saurabh and superintendent of police (rural) Vishwajeet Dayal will oversee law and order and electoral processes on the polling day. Patna: Patna district administration issued several directives on Saturday for the first phase of the primary agricultural cooperative credit society (PACS) elections scheduled for November 26. These elections will take place across eight blocks in the district – Dulhin Bazaar, Danapur, Naubatpur, Patna Sadar, Punpun, Phulwarisharif, Paliganj and Masaurhi. Polling will be conducted from 7am to 4.30pm and the counting will start at 8am the next day. According to the administration's order, contestants must camp beyond a 200-metre radius of polling booths and Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code will be enforced in the respective panchayat areas on polling day to maintain order. "A total of 68 patrolling teams have been deployed to ensure voting is conducted in an impartial, fair, peaceful and fear-free environment," said a joint order issued by district magistrate-cum-electoral officer Chandrashekhar Singh and senior superintendent of police Rajiv Mishra. The maximum number of teams, 15, has been deployed for Paliganj; 10 each for Masaurhi and Naubatpur; eight for Phulwarisharif; seven each for Dulhin Bazaar, Danapur and Punpun and four for Patna Sadar. The patrolling magistrates will also be responsible for collecting ballot boxes after polling and depositing them at the designated strongrooms or counting centres. "The magistrates are required to report at their dispatch centres on Monday at 9am to collect election-related materials and hand them over to the presiding officers of the polling centres," the order read. Magistrates are further tasked with reporting voting percentages for women and men from every polling booth every two hours. "This information will be relayed to the electoral officers at regular intervals," the order added. Block development officers have been asked to establish control rooms at block head offices on polling day and to deploy sufficient officers and staff to manage complaints and ensure smooth operations. Also, each control room will be equipped with a fire brigade unit and an ambulance, staffed with doctors and stocked with necessary medicines. Deputy development commissioner Sameer Saurabh and superintendent of police (rural) Vishwajeet Dayal will oversee law and order and electoral processes on the polling day.

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In the Name of Open Economy, We Gave Unfair Advantages to Others: EAM JaishankarPercentages: FG .321, FT .833. 3-Point Goals: 5-19, .263 (Badru 2-4, Poser 2-5, Hamelin 1-4, McComb 0-3, Sunderland 0-3). Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: 2. Blocked Shots: 3 (Okpomo 2, Sunderland). Turnovers: 11 (Hamelin 5, McComb 2, Badru, Middleton, Okpomo, Sunderland). Steals: 4 (Badru, Hamelin, McComb, Poser). Technical Fouls: None. Percentages: FG .419, FT .667. 3-Point Goals: 4-19, .211 (Pascarelli 2-4, Daughtry 1-2, Price 1-6, Collins-Roberts 0-1, Kawa 0-1, Mackrey 0-1, Lewis 0-2, Roberts 0-2). Team Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: 3. Blocked Shots: 6 (Daughtry 4, Lewis, Schofield). Turnovers: 10 (Daughtry 4, Collins-Roberts 2, Kawa, Lewis, Pascarelli, Price). Steals: 3 (Lewis 2, Kabamba). Technical Fouls: None. A_1,659 (3,200).A boat is believed to have capsized off the coast in the Mindarie/Jindalee area this morning, landing two people in the water. Police were notified at 6.45am and St John Ambulance 7.14am. St John Ambulance has confirmed it sent four crews at priority 1 speed to attend two people pulled from the water, ages and genders unknown. Water police, marine rescue staff and the police helicopter are also attending. We’ll bring you more on that soon. Sculpture by the Sea has today announced its popular annual Cottesloe art exhibition will be cancelled in 2025, due to a lack of vital support from the federal government. In a post on their website, the company expressed their dismay at the lack of funding from the federal arts agency Creative Australia. Zadok Ben-David’s ‘Big Boy’, Sculpture By the Sea, Cottesloe 2017. Credit: Richard Watson “Following the end of the Catalyst Fund and the RISE Fund in 2023, Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe has received no federal government arts funding to stage the large-scale exhibition that transforms Cottesloe beach for 230,000 visitors over 18 days in March each year,” the post reads. “One of Perth’s largest, longest running and most beloved public events, it was founded on the idea of providing a major free exhibition to transform Cottesloe beach into a temporary world-class sculpture park for everyone to enjoy. “However, organisers see no other choice but to cancel the 2025 edition due to the significant costs of mounting a free exhibition of this scale.” Many WA artists have signed a letter to the federal arts minister or written their own, asking for funding to resume. Denise Pepper, a Perth-based artist who has exhibited at the Cottesloe event 10 times since 2009, said it had been a “game-changer” in her career. WA artist Dr Jon Tarry said the lack of funding “felt like a funeral.” “We can’t believe it’s happening and how anyone responsible for the public arts in Australia could let this happen. Sculpture by the Sea is what every city in the world would love to have,” he said. This is not the first time the organisers of Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe have been forced to consider pausing the exhibition but, unlike in previous years, no solution has been found. Making headlines today: Kazem Hamad seems out of reach to Australian authorities. Credit: The Age Longtime Neighbours star Ian Smith has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer . The 86-year-old actor, best known for playing Harold Bishop, revealed the news in an interview with Channel 10 last night. Mostly cloudy today, staying cool with a top of 23 degrees. Good morning, and welcome to our live blog for Tuesday, December 3. Would you look at that? Christmas is nearly upon us (did you need another reminder?) and just in time for the festive season is an opening in Leederville that’s sure to spark boundless joy among fans of bound pages. Many people – aforementioned fans chief among them – would say a high street without a bookstore will always lack that certain something special. So it will be good news to those who frequent Oxford Street that a new retailer will be opening its doors to, er, start a new chapter in the heart of the premier precinct. Emma Young’s got the full story. Read it here. Stormie Mills on the river in Perth. Meanwhile, in the latest instalment of our Three Things I Love series, we chat to celebrated artist Stormie Mills about what he loves in his home town. And, as it turns out, Mills’ time spent in Venice (he’s been living there for the past 18 months) has given him a new perspective on our city, and the beautiful river that flows from the hills, through its heart and out to the sea. Read the full article here. Thanks for joining us today, and stay tuned as we bring you all the news you need to know.

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Article content The days of counting ballots manually one by one are becoming a thing of the past in many communities across Ontario. Technology has found its way into elections, accountability and public trust are at the forefront and behind the scenes, and a reduction of complex administration processes are needed. They are the types of improvements the Association of Municipal Managers, Clerks and Treasurers of Ontario (AMCTO), and the Association of Municipalities of Ontario are lobbying for through separate efforts. The Municipal Elections Act is 30 years old and AMCTO charges the legislation has been slow to catch up and modernize. It has launched an effort to have the Ontario government prioritize certain updates in the act for the 2026 municipal election and prior to the 2030 election, complete a full review and rewrite the Municipal Elections Act to include long-term solutions and recommendations. Sault Ste. Marie’s deputy city clerk Madison Zuppa said the goal of the modernization plan is to strengthen public trust and electoral integrity, enhance accountability and transparency awhile making compliance and enforcement easier and ensuring new legislation that reduces administrative complexity. Zuppa, who also serves as a director at large on AMCTO’s board, said the Municipal Election Act also needs to gel with other provincial legislation, like the Education Act, to ensure compliance for municipal and school board elections, especially since municipalities often run the school board trustee elections in conjunction with that of municipal government. One recommendation suggests school boards should be mandated to hold Professional Activity Days on municipal election days to help simplify polling locations for voters. Rachel Tyczinski, city clerk and a member of AMCTO’s municipal election working group, said Sault Ste. Marie-area school boards are very cooperative and the municipality and boards have a good working relationship. “We’ve had great success locally having PA days on voting days, which allows us to use the facilities and set up ahead of time,” she said. “Some municipalities have not been as fortunate.” AMCTO’s priorities for the 2026 election include updating the language and definitions found in the act to provide clarity for administrators, voters and candidates, and include alternate voting methods to incorporate the new technologies that are available to make the voting process more user-friendly, accessible, and frankly, easier on administrative staff who run the municipal election process. While Sault Ste. Marie has not adapted online voting, the need for clear and concise legislation to include modern technologies is necessary, Zuppa said. And while the Municipal Elections Act may provide the framework for municipalities to follow, each municipality must also develop its own policies and procedures that work best for the individual community. “The legislation doesn’t do the nitty gritty work, and each community still needs to decide what works best for them, often based on the size of the election, the number of staff involved and the uniqueness of their own community,” she said. The AMCTO report has already received some form of support from more than 60 municipal councils. Sault Ste. Marie’s city council will receive a report in early 2025 outlining the recommended changes that are on the horizon by AMCTO as well as an AMO Healthy Democracy project that is underway. Mayor Matthew Shoemaker said he personally supports any updates to policies or procedures designed to better the election process, provided they support security and are tried and tested. “This council hasn’t had that discussion, but I believe they’d be willing to support any efforts (to modernize elections). They’ve shown their support to try different things with the aim of progress, and elections are a concern to everyone,” Shoemaker said. Shoemaker said it is important to have the greatest number of participants engaged in the election process in order to increase credibility. Sault Ste. Marie has offered various voting methods for residents including traditional at-the-ballot-box option, electronic voting, advance polls, mail-in voting, and vote-from-home options. AMO’s Healthy Democracy project, still in its infancy, is geared to increase civic engagement in elections, the political system and encourage more diverse candidates to run for municipal government. With voter turnout in decline over the past four elections and candidate acclamations on the rise, it is hoped that by developing a public education campaign, participation will increase on both levels. “This is something we’re looking forward to getting involved in,” Tyczinski said. The project will focus on encouraging diverse representation of municipal councils, especially from underrepresented communities, engage youth, raise local demographic engagement and increase electoral engagement and participation, among other things. Tyczinski and Zuppa believe the modernization of the Municipal Elections Act and AMO’s Healthy Democracy project will help build public trust and create an efficient and effective election system. It will also help candidates understand their roles on municipal council and improve enforcement and compliance. “These things are not going to happen overnight,” Tyczinski said. “There is lots of engagement needed across Ontario to get to where we need to be, but it is certainly a start.” It’s believed the full impact of recommended changes and improvements won’t be seen until the 2030 election. Share this Story : Provincial association push to 'modernize' Municipal Election Act, increase election engagement Copy Link Email X Reddit Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr

Mysuru: Five residents from the city were tricked into travelling to Golden Triangle, an island in Thailand, on the pretext of lucrative jobs. They were forced to deceive people in India into investing in the stock market through fake applications, luring them by chatting in local languages. The city cybercrime, economic offences and narcotics (CEN) police registered an FIR in this regard. IPL 2025 mega auction IPL Auction 2025: Who got whom IPL 2025 Auction: Updated Full Team Squads According to the FIR, these five residents were asked to talk to men above 40 years, pretending to be women, and make them invest in the stock market. A city resident was offered a job in a call centre in Laos with a monthly salary of Rs 60,000, along with his four friends. After an online interview, they were added to a Telegram group. They travelled to Laos along with five other Indian nationals. From Laos, they were taken to the Golden Triangle. According to the victims, they reached Golden Triangle on Feb 4, and after two days' rest, they were given training in opening fake accounts on social media, using fake applications, and chatting with individuals. "They asked us to chat with men above 40 years, pretending to be women, and make them invest in the fake applications. We started doing this under fear and threat. When we declined to do this, saying it is a scam, we were assaulted and forced to continue the same after being locked inside a room. The accused demanded Rs 5 lakhs to free us from the island," they told the cops. An employee working in the same place advised them to lodge a complaint at the Indian embassy to secure their freedom. Based on their complaint, the local Indian embassy officials freed them with the help of police, they stated in the complaint. The CEN police registered a case against unknown accused under IPC Sections 120B, 365, 367, 370, 420, besides the IT Act. Cyber experts and the police advised the public to be cautious while making investments in the stock market using unknown applications, as it may be part of these kinds of scams. They also urged people to be careful while relying on unknown persons to get jobs in foreign countries.

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