Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police Thursday claimed to have busted an online fake job racket and arrested four persons, including a couple, for allegedly duping a man of `11 lakh over a telegram application. Bhubaneswar DCP Prateek Singh identified the accused as Trupti Ranjan Patra, 31, Banalata Sahoo, 27, Manas Ranjan Suna, 35, and Nihar Ranjan Paikray, 35....

Bhubaneswar: The election season is here and all political parties are extensively tapping social media and influencers - having sizeable fan base on various platforms - to push their messages through subtle campaigns to woo voters. Social media seems to have transformed the very nature of elections and campaigns, offering a place for news, discourse and election...

Chennai: Polling began at 7 AM Friday in all the 39 Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu for the 2024 general election, amid tight security arrangements. People arrived at the polling stations enthusiastically and waited for their turn to vote, with personnel of the state and central police forces standing guard. The fate of 950 candidates will...

Kolkata: Polling for Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal started Friday morning under tight security cover. However, in the first 30 minutes since the polling began, reports of tension had started surfacing from certain pockets in the Cooch Behar constituency, which is under the scanner of the Election Commission of India. Voters...

Dehradun: Polling began Friday morning for the five Lok Sabha seats in Uttarakhand, election officials said. The voting across 11,729 polling stations began at 7 am and will go on till 5 pm, they said. Apart from 40,000 police, home guard and Prantiya Raksha Dal personnel, 65 companies of central paramilitary forces have been deployed to ensure...

Nagpur: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat voted at a polling booth near Reshimbagh, here Friday morning. The RSS chief was among the earliest to arrive at a polling station. He waited for nearly 15 minutes before the polling started, entered to cast his vote and emerged soon thereafter, displaying his inked left-hand forefinger with...

Aries: Your sportsman spirit will find its way into both your professional and personal life. Today may be an important day in your life, and Ganesha says you must not forget your special quality. Taurus: You will put your heart and soul into whatever you do today, says Ganesha. But there may still be dark clouds hovering...

Lucknow: Polling for the first round of Lok Sabha elections in eight constituencies of western Uttar Pradesh began at 7 am Friday. The seats include Saharanpur, Bijnor, Kairana, Muzaffarnagar, Nagina (reserved), Moradabad, Rampur and Pilibhit. These fall in the Jat and sugarcane belt of the state. Among the prominent candidates are BJP's Jitin Prasada from Pilibhit, Union...

New Delhi: Over 16.63 crore voters in 1.87 lakh polling stations across the country will decide the fate of 1,625 candidates in the first phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections Friday. Deploying over 18 lakh polling officials, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said that it has taken a "slew of decisive measures" for the peaceful...

Keonjhar: A court in Odisha's Keonjhar district Thursday sentenced a 29-year-old man to life in jail for raping and impregnating a minor girl, who tragically died after delivering a stillborn. Keonjhar POCSO court judge Bijay Kumar Mishra pronounced the verdict against convict Ansuman Mohapatra after hearing the testimony of 16 witnesses and reviewing medical reports, the public...