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Mumbai: Lipi V Rastogi, daughter of a senior IAS couple, died by suicide from a building at Nariman Point, early Monday morning, officials said. The deceased is the daughter of IAS officer Vikas C Rastogi, attached with the Higher & Technical Education Department, and Radhika...

Kolkata: Fearing post-poll violence, the Election Commission (EC) has decided to retain 400 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) in West Bengal till June 19. Results for the Lok Sabha polls will be announced Tuesday. Initially, it was decided that 400 companies would be...

Kolkata: Repolling was underway in two booths -- one each in Barasat and Mathurapur Lok Sabha constituencies -- in West Bengal Monday under tight security cover. The repolling started at 7am and will continue till 6pm. One of the two booths where the repolling was...

Kolkata: A CRPF jawan was Monday arrested for allegedly molesting two women in Kolkata’s Chitpur area, an officer said. The jawan, who was returning from election duty in Baruipur in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, reached the Kolkata railway station Sunday night...

Sukma: A police head constable was hacked to death by unidentified persons at a village in Chhattisgarh's Naxal-hit Sukma district, an official said Monday. Prima facie, the modus operandi of the attack suggested it was executed by a "small action team of Naxalites," he said....

Amravati: Amravati MLA Ravi Rana has claimed Shiv Sena (UBT) head and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray will join the Modi government in 15 days after the Lok Sabha election results come out Tuesday. Ravi Rana's wife Navneet Rana, the sitting MP from Amravati,...

New Delhi: The Congress and other INDIA bloc parties Sunday trashed the exit polls that have predicted a third consecutive win for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Lok Sabha elections, claiming that these surveys were a work of "fantasy" and asserting that the opposition alliance...

New Delhi: Motorists using expressways will have to shell out more from Monday as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to hike tolls across the country by an average of 5 per cent. The annual revision of highway user fee, which is...

Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam remained unchanged with more than six lakh people in 10 districts reeling under waters, officials said Sunday. Heavy rains in different parts of the state led to the swelling of river water level, forcing affected people in many areas...

New Delhi: A delegation of leaders from the INDIA opposition bloc met the full bench of the Election Commission Sunday and urged it to ensure that all the guidelines are followed June 4, when the votes polled in the Lok Sabha election will be counted,...