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Ranchi: Two empty chairs - one each for jailed Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal former and former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren - were kept on stage as the INDIA bloc organised a mega rally in Ranchi Sunday. The ‘Ulgulan Nyay Mahrally' was organised mainly by...

Tel Aviv: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced the move by the US government to issue sanctions to the Netzah Yehuda battalion of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The sanctions, according to reports, are for alleged human rights violations committed against Palestinians in the...

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) announced candidates for nine more Assembly seats, while the Congress named 16 more MLA and three MP nominees for the upcoming polls in the state, Saturday. BJD also announced the star candidate list which features party president Naveen Patnaik,...

Bhubaneswar: The BJD Saturday nominated nine more candidates, including Odia film actor Varsha Priyadarshini, for the upcoming Odisha Assembly elections. While announcing the sixth list of candidates for the Assembly elections, the ruling party in the state denied nomination to seven sitting MLAs. Priyadarshini, who...

New Delhi: An aggregate 60.03 per cent voter turnout was recorded in phase one of the Lok Sabha polls Friday, the Election Commission (EC) said. While the figures were issued after the conclusion of polls, the commission said people who were in the queue when...

New Delhi: Nearly 60 per cent polling was reported till 5 pm in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections covering 102 seats across 21 states and Union territories amid sporadic incidents of violence in West Bengal while an accidental explosion of a grenade launcher...

New Delhi: Voting was underway on Friday in 102 Lok Sabha seats spread across 21 states and Union territories in the first of the seven phases of the world's largest electoral exercise, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging voters to exercise their franchise in record...

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...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas seeking complete cross-verification of votes cast using EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT). A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta reserved its verdict after hearing the response...