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NEW DELHI: The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has tasked public sector undertakings, banks and insurance companies with raising awareness against corruption in schools, colleges and gram sabhas across the country. The anti-corruption watchdog, in a recent order, has allotted cities to each PSU, bank and insurance company. “Laying stress for creation of awareness on the ill- effects of corruption amongst school and college students, the Commission desires that  special  effor may be made by each field unit/branch of every central public sector enterprise to reach out to students in at least two schools and three colleges,” the CVC said in the order. A total of 163 cities and 96 organisations have been chosen for the purpose, it said. Activities conducted in schools and colleges need to be sustained over a period of time to ensure that ethical values are ingrained permanently in the minds of young generations, it said. “All organisations may, therefore, encou...

Hyderabad:  Campaign for the Nandyal by- election  came to an end on Monday, as the polling date is two sunsets away on August 23. The EC has banned electioneering of all kinds, though print and broadcast,  bulk Short Message Service  (SMS), social media, including Facebook, WhatsApp and other online community platforms. Highlights: Electioneering on all types of media banned    40 normal, 74 critical and 141 hypersensitive polling stations identified Giving details to the media on the elaborate arrangements made to the polling, Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwar Lal said that 2, 19,108 voters would be using their franchise in 255 polling stations. “So far, 2, 03,155 voter’s slips had been distributed. 15,703 voter slips could not be distributed following death, house shifting, absent and not available at the time of enrolment and duplicate voter registration,” he said. He said that 40 normal, 74 critical and 141 hypersensitive polling sta...