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New Delhi: A staggering 93 per cent of the candidates who won the 2024 Lok Sabha elections are millionaires, up from 88 per cent in 2019, according to an analysis by poll rights body Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR). The top three wealthiest candidates are...

Amaravati: TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu Thursday directed all party MPs to attend NDA's Friday meeting in New Delhi. TDP alone won 16 MP seats in Andhra Pradesh while the NDA alliance of TDP, BJP and Janasena collectively won the lion's share of 21 seats...

Uttarkashi: The bodies of four more trekkers from Bengaluru who died during a trek to Sahastra Tal were recovered Thursday, completing the retrieval of bodies of all nine victims, officials said. Thirteen trekkers have been rescued safely, SDM Brijesh Kumar Tiwari said, adding that the...

Patna: Congress has made some electoral inroads in Bihar after 20 years by winning three Lok Sabha seats. The last time Congress won four seats from Bihar was 20 years ago during the 2004 Lok Sabha polls. In the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress...

Jaipur: An 18-year-old medical aspirant committed suicide by jumping from the ninth floor of a building in Rajasthan's Kota, said police officials Thursday. The deceased was identified as Bagisha Tiwari, a resident of Madhya Pradesh who lived on the fifth floor of a multi-storey building...

New Delhi: As many as 251 (46 per cent) of the 543 newly elected Lok Sabha members have criminal cases registered against them and 27 of them have been convicted, according to an analysis by poll rights body Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR). This is...

New Delhi: The 18th Lok Sabha will see about 280 MPs who have been elected for the first time, an increase from the 2019 elections when 267 members were first-time MPs. A total of 263 newly elected MPs have previously served as members of Lok...

Mumbai: The RBI is expected to leave interest rates unchanged in its monetary policy review as it continues to maintain a balance between pushing for economic growth and keeping inflation in check. The RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting being held from June 5 to...

New Delhi Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu will Thursday evening hand over the list of candidates who won the Lok Sabha elections to President Droupadi Murmu, sources said Thursday. Once the list is handed over to...

Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate, Thursday, issued a fresh summons to the popular actress Rituparna Sengupta for questioning in the ration distribution scam case in West Bengal. In the fresh notice, Sengupta has been asked to be present at ED’s office at CGO Complex at Salt...