New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday orally asked the Election Commission (EC) to look into media reports suggesting that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) erroneously registered votes in favour of the BJP during mock polling in Kerala’s Kasaragod. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta asked senior advocate Maninder Singh, representing EC, to look into the...

Bhubaneswar: The Congress Thursday announced the names of four more candidates for the Odisha assembly polls. Debendra Kumar Sahoo will contest from Mahanga, Manoj Rath (Satyabadi), Prakash Chandra Jena (Bhubaneswar-Central) and Ashok Kumar Das (Bhubaneswar-North), the party said. The Congress has so far announced candidates for 123 assembly seats of 147. The party has left two seats...

New Delhi: Actor-couple Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal Thursday launched their fashion label Ehaab Couture, dedicated to celebrating the art of Chikankari embroidery. According to a press release, Ehaab Couture is inspired by the cultural richness of the city and encapsulates the essence of tradition, nostalgia, and old-world charm. "The name 'Ehaab' means the art of gifting...

New Delhi: Superstar Vikram has announced that his 62nd feature film project has been titled Veera Dheera Sooran. SU Arun Kumar, best known for films such as Sethupathi, Sindhubaadh and Chithha, has written and directed the movie. Vikram, who celebrated his 58th birthday Wednesday, shared the official poster and teaser of the movie on his official social...

Bhubaneswar: Adding another feather to its cap Wednesday, AIIMS Bhubaneswar announced the launch of a cutting-edge healthcare service for the placement of an Artificial Urinary Sphincter (AUS), a significant advancement in urological care. AIIMS-Bhubaneswar executive director Ashutosh Biswas congratulated the team of doctors and said, “The department of Urology at AIIMS-Bhubaneswar has consistently been providing world-class care...

Canberra: Australia's unemployment rate rose slightly to 3.8 per cent in March, official data has revealed. According to figures published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Thursday, the number of employed Australians fell by 6,600 between February and March, driving unemployment up from 3.7 per cent to 3.8 per cent, Xinhua news agency reported. News Corp...

Mumbai: In a major swoop, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has slapped provisional attachment orders on the properties of actress Shilpa Shetty and her husband Ripu Sudan Kundra, alias Raj Kundra, here Thursday. The movable and immovable properties, worth around Rs 97.79 crore, belong to the Kundra couple and the action has been taken under the Prevention of...

Lucknow: An FIR has been registered at the Hazratganj police station in Lucknow against six people, including a woman, who claimed that BJP MP Ravi Kishan is the father of her daughter. The FIR was registered on a complaint by Ravi Kishan's wife Preeti Shukla. Apart from the woman, Aparna Thakur, the FIR also names her husband...

New Delhi: A Delhi court Thursday deferred a hearing concerning the framing of charges against BJP MP and former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, in an alleged sexual harassment case by six women wrestlers. The decision to defer came after Singh submitted an application seeking further examination of evidence concerning his whereabouts...

Mumbai: Days after Hindi film actor Salman Khan's Bandra home was targeted by the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is now under fire from the enraged Bishnoi community. Members of the community have taken to social media, countering CM Shinde and expressed outrage over his purported remarks to "eliminate" the (Bishnoi) gangsters and vowed...