New Delhi: Over 60 per cent polling was reported till 5 pm in the second phase of Lok Sabha elections covering 88 seats across 13 states amid complaints of EVM glitches and bogus voting in some booths in Kerala and West Bengal. Voters in some villages of Uttar Pradesh's Mathura, Rajasthan's Banswara and Maharashtra's Parbhani boycotted polls...

New Delhi: The Ministry of Education has asked the CBSE to work out logistics for conducting board exams twice a year from the 2025-26 academic session, according to sources. The plan for introducing a semester system has been ruled out, they said. The ministry and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will hold consultations with school...

New Delhi: A Delhi court Friday dismissed an application by BJP MP and former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, seeking further examination of evidence concerning his whereabouts on the date -- September 7, 2022 -- of an alleged incident. Singh is accused in a sexual harassment case in which several women wrestlers...

Bengaluru: A case was booked against BJP MP and Bangalore South Candidate Tejasvi Surya for allegedly posting a video on a social media platform and soliciting votes on the grounds of religion, the Election Commission said Friday. He is contesting against Congress candidate Sowmya Reddy, daughter of Karnataka Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy. Taking to 'X', the Karnataka...

Bhubaneswar/ Balasore: Weeks after resigning from the ruling BJD, Soro MLA Parshuram Dhada Friday returned to the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in Odisha. Dhada joined the saffron party at an event organised at the BJP's headquarters here in the presence of its state president Manmohan Samal, former president Samir Mohanty and other...

Nabarangpur: A five-member team of the Election Commission of India Friday searched a helicopter used by bureaucrat-turned-politician Kartik Pandian in Odisha's Nabarangpur district, an official said. "No objectionable material was found in the helicopter," he said. The search was conducted when the helicopter carrying Pandian, who is a close aide of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, landed...

Bhubaneswar: The process of filing nomination papers for five Lok Sabha constituencies and 35 Odisha Assembly segments to be held May 20 started Friday with the Election Commission of India and Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) issuing the notification in this regard. The five Lok Sabha constituencies are Bargarh, Sundargarh (ST), Bolangir, Kandhamal and Aska Lok Sabha constituencies...

New Delhi: The country’s leading carmaker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd Friday reported a 48 per cent jump in net profit to Rs 3,878 crore for the January-March quarter of 2023-24 compared to the same quarter of 2022-23. The company declared its highest-ever dividend of Rs 125 per share. The car giant reported its highest revenue of Rs...

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Araria/Munger: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday asserted that the Supreme Court judgment on Electronic Voting Machines was a "tight slap" to the Congress-led opposition which must "apologise" for committing the "sin" of creating distrust against EVMs. The prime minister, who addressed back-to-back election rallies at Araria and Munger Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar, also charged the opposition...