15/02/2022 - TOP 3 NEWS OF INDIA

Elections to the legislature | In Uttarkhand and Goa, voter turnout is down.

The Election Commission announced on Monday that peaceful voting with "appropriate COVID protocols" took place in 165 Assembly constituencies in Goa, Uttarakhand, and phase two of Uttar Pradesh elections. The EC reported that voter turnout in the 55 Assembly constituencies in the second phase of the U.P. polls was 60.44 percent as of 5 p.m. According to election officials in Goa, the single-phase polling for the 40-seat Assembly witnessed a voter turnout of 78.94 percent, excluding postal ballots.

Cryptocurrencies are similar to Ponzi schemes, according to the RBI's Deputy Governor.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor remarked on Monday that cryptocurrencies are similar to Ponzi schemes or even worse, and that banning them is the most rational solution for India. In a speech, T. Rabi Sankar said, "We have also seen that cryptocurrencies are not susceptible to definition as a money, asset, or commodity; they have no underlying cash flows, no intrinsic value; that they are analogous to Ponzi schemes, and may be even worse."

Congress is using remote control to manage state administrations, according to Prime Minister Modi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi lashed out at the Congress party on Monday, accusing the party's central leadership of violating the Constitution by governing state governments through "remote control," which he claimed was controlled by a single family. Mr. Modi, speaking at a rally in Jalandhar ahead of the Assembly election, said, "Their [Congress] leaders have openly admitted that they used to manage State governments via remote control."