9 Phases Lok Sabha Elections to be Held From April 7 to May 12, Counting on 16th May

CEC Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath announces Lok Sabha polling dates in New Delhi

The Election Commission has announced the dates of 9 days “Lok Sabha polls for 2014”, starts from 7th April and the votes counting on all 543 Lok Sabha constituencies will be over in a single day on 16th May, announced by V S Sampath (Chief election commissioner) at a press conference.

Andhra Pradesh has 42 LK seats, will go to polling on 30th April & 7th May.  Assembly elections will also be organized simultaneously in the states of Andhra Pradesh, including Telangana region, Sikkim and Odisha.

"We have great pleasure in announcing the process of the 16th LS, which is yet another milestone in the Indian history," Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath said.

"With our announcement of the schedule today, Model Code of Conduct comes into force with immediate effect," Sampath added.

On 7th April 2014 the first day of poll, voting will be organized on two states also including the 6 parliamentary constituencies. On 9th April, the second phase of poll will mask the 7 constituencies in five different states.  And the third phase of poll on 10th will cover 92 constituencies in 14 states and on the fourth phase 12th April will be for 5 constituencies to cover in 3 states.

17th April, the fifth phase will cover 13th states and UTs and 122 constituencies and sixth phase will cover 12 states & 117 constituencies on 24th April 2014.

 30th April will be the day of seventh phase of polling and it will cover the 9 states & 89 constituencies. In eighth phase 7th May, 7 states & 64 constituencies will be cover and on 12th May, the last phase of polling will cover 3 states and 41 constituencies.

Lok Sabha Polling Schedule:- 

"Adequate number of observers in different categories will be deployed during the forthcoming elections," he added.

The current Lok Sabha term will be expire on 1st June 2014 and the new house of the current Lok Sabha expires on 1st June and the new House will be constituted by May 31. (ANI)

"I appeal to all stakeholders, parties and candidates to uphold democratic traditions of nation," Sampath said.

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How to Change a Font on Facebook in 6 Easy Steps

Facebook is one of the most famous social networking portal that brings you the best way to communicate with your friends, family & people from all around the world. 

Now Facebook allows anyone to become at least 13 years to claim an account and become a registered user of the website. 

After registration user can create a personal profile through which user can communicate with their friends, add people in friend list, share images/videos and exchange messages via group chat or personal chat.

Facebook have plenty of apps & functions that are specially designed to customize user's experience and it also includes font applications to make your font style attractive and interesting, according to your choice.

  

Follow the following instructions to change the font : 

1. First Log-in to your Facebook account.

2. Left-click on the "Applications" in the bottom-left of the page. Scroll up and then click on "Browse More Applications."

3. Type "Fonts" in the "Search Apps" field in the box in the top left corner of the page.

4. Scroll through the font applications Facebook has to offer.

5. Click on the font application icon. On the next page, hit the blue "Go to Application" button in the top left corner.

6. Hit the "Allow" button on the next page. In the next page, you can start to manipulate your font. Applications vary in how you use them so read the instructions on this page.

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3 Years Ago Today, SEO Changed Forever With Google's Panda Algorithm

Today is a day that'll never forget by any SEO and webmasters, it is the day when Google had launched his First Panda Algorithm. On 24th February 2011, 3 years ago today, the SEO's space was transformed forever by Google by building an algorithm to downgrade the low quality content.

Panda had put a huge impact on Google's search results than most, if not all, search quality related algorithms in the history of Google. So many SEOs argued that Penguin was felt more, and especially after the Panda update it was likely by SEOs. But may be, Panda had a wider imprint.

Since then, we had about 25 Panda refreshes and updates, here are some:

•     Panda #25 on March 15, 2013
•     Panda #24 on January 22, 2013
•     Panda #23 on December 21, 2012
•     Panda #22 on November 21st
•     Panda #22 on November 21st
•     Panda #21 on November 5th
•     Panda #20 on September 27th
•     Panda 3.9.2 on September 18th
•     Panda 3.9.1 on August 20th
•     Panda 3.9 on July 24th
•     Panda 3.8 on June 25th
•     Panda 3.7 on June 9th
•     Panda 3.6 on April 27th
•     Panda 3.5 on April 19th
•     Panda 3.4 on March 23rd
•     Panda 3.3 on about February 26th
•     Panda 3.2 on about January 15th
•     Panda 3.1 on November 18th
•     Panda 2.5.3 on October 19/20th
•     Panda 2.5.2 on October 13th
•     Panda 2.5.1 on October 9th
•     Panda 2.5 on September 28th
•     Panda 2.4 in August
•     Panda 2.3 on around July 22nd.
•     Panda 2.2 on June 18th or so.
•     Panda 2.1 on May 9th or so.
•     Panda 2.0 on April 11th or so.
•     Panda 1.0 on February 24th

Last year, Google had stopped about the confirmation of Panda updates and then again started rolling out updates but that was not mean that they they have not completed his work on fine tuning the algorithm. They softened it recently and monthly there have been new updates or refreshes, some of them larger than others but its not easy to know if it's Panda or something else.

Anyway, Panda is an important update which is still felt today throughout our space.

Contributed by Deepak Rawat

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