35,000 security personnel deployed for third phase LS, Assembly polls in Odisha
BJP telling lies about my health, I am fine: Odisha CM
Severe cyclone likely to form in Bay of Bengal, expected to make landfall Sunday night
Odisha Matric exam result to be out May 26
Paika community, slum dwellers hold key in Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha constituency
SC refuses to issue EC direction to upload voter turnout data amid LS polls
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday refused an NGO's plea to issue the Election Commission directions to upload polling station-wise voter turnout data on its website during the Lok Sabha polls, saying it would be difficult for the poll panel to mobilise manpower. A vacation bench of Justices Dipankar Datta...
Read moreLS polls: Over 11 crore voters to decide fate of 889 candidates in penultimate phase
New Delhi: Over 11 crore voters will decide the fate of 889 candidates contesting in the penultimate phase of the Lok Sabha elections across 58 seats. Polling for the Anantnag-Rajouri seat in Jammu and Kashmir will also be held Saturday. The election there was postponed from phase three to six due to logistical issues owing to adverse weather conditions. In a statement issued Friday, the poll panel said the India Meteorological...
Read moreBangladesh MP murder: Police arrest butcher; takes his help to locate body parts
Kolkata: The West Bengal CID arrested one person from the state's Bongaon area in North 24 Parganas district for his alleged involvement in the "murder" of Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar, an officer said Friday. The man, a butcher by profession, has admitted during interrogation that he had helped the other accused in chopping the victim's body before disposing the parts in different locations, the officer claimed. Bengal Police confirmed the...
Read moreAttempts were made to show teen was not behind wheel of Porsche: Pune police chief
Pune: Pune police chief Friday said there was an attempt to tamper with evidence to show that the Porsche that ran over two people on a motorcycle was being driven by a family driver and not the 17-year-old who is in custody over their deaths. There were attempts to make it appear as if the adult driver was driving the car, but that bid was foiled, Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar told...
Read moreUS pushes for Ukraine aid, united front against China’s trade practices at G7 finance meeting
Frankfurt (Germany): The US sought to build support for squeezing more money for Ukraine out of frozen Russian assets and for uniting against China's aggressive trade practices as finance ministers from the Group of Seven rich democracies opened a two-day meeting Friday on the shores of northern Italy's scenic Lago Maggiore. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is pushing at the meeting in Stresa for “more ambitious options” to unlock money from...
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Kapil Sibal urges SC to direct EC to preserve EVM logs for 2-3 years, put out voting records before counting
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal Friday urged the Supreme Court to direct the Election Commission to keep the logs of EVMs safe for at least two to three years and declare the records of every phase of voting before counting so that no member is elected "illegally". Sibal also said if the Election Commission cannot...
35,000 security personnel deployed for third phase LS, Assembly polls in Odisha
Bhubaneswar: Around 35,000 security personnel including 121 companies of central armed police force (CAPF) and 106 platoons of Odisha armed police and 19,865 civil police personnel have been deployed for the third phase of Lok Sabha and Assembly elections to be held in Odisha May 25, a senior police officer said. Six parliamentary constituencies - Bhubaneswar, Cuttack,...
Google to buy minority stake in Flipkart in fresh funding round
New Delhi: Internet major Google has proposed an investment in e-commerce major Flipkart to buy a minority stake during the company's fresh funding round, the Walmart group firm said Friday. "As part of the latest funding round led by Walmart, Flipkart today announced that it will be adding Google as a minority investor, subject to receipt of...
BJP telling lies about my health, I am fine: Odisha CM
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik Friday asserted that he is in very good health and campaigning in the elections for the Lok Sabha and Assembly all over the state. His statement followed comments of BJP president JP Nadda and other party leaders that Patnaik should be given rest in the wake of his...
LS polls: Over 11 crore voters to decide fate of 889 candidates in penultimate phase
New Delhi: Over 11 crore voters will decide the fate of 889 candidates contesting in the penultimate phase of the Lok Sabha elections across 58 seats. Polling for the Anantnag-Rajouri seat in Jammu and Kashmir will also be held Saturday. The election there was postponed from phase three to six due to logistical issues owing to adverse...
UK’s July general election: Impact on India FTA, Indo-Pacific tilt
London: The prospect of an India-UK free trade agreement (FTA) has been kicked into the long grass after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak surprised many this week with a snap summer poll July 4, exactly a month after India's election results June 4. While political analysts and strategic experts have expressed confidence that very little should change...
Bodies of three more hostages recovered from Gaza by Israeli army
Tel Aviv (Israel): The bodies of three more hostages killed on October 7 were recovered overnight from Gaza, Israel's army said Friday, as the top United Nations court prepares to rule on whether Israel must halt its military operations and withdraw from the enclave. The bodies of Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum, and Orion Hernandez Radoux were found...
No, video doesn’t show Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann being ‘assaulted by a crowd’
Fact-Check The Verdict: False The man in the clip is Amandeep Singh Boparai, president of Yuva Jatt Sabha, an organization working for welfare of Jatt community in Jammu & Kashmir. Claim ID e5569844 What’s the claim? A video depicting a large crowd chasing and attacking a man in a yellow turban is circulating widely on social media....
21 international organisations write to CJI for speedy resolution of Adani coal imports case in SC
New Delhi: At least 21 international organisations have written to Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and requested the Supreme Court to speedily resolve the pending case filed by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, investigating Adani Group firms for alleged overvaluation of Indonesian coal imports. The letter comes after a report by the London-based Financial Times, citing documents from...
India should impose tax on ultra-wealthy to tackle wealth inequality, says study
New Delhi: India needs to impose a 2 per cent tax on net wealth exceeding Rs 10 crore and a 33 per cent inheritance tax to deal with the problem of rising inequality in the country, a new research paper co-authored by economist Thomas Piketty has suggested. The paper titled 'Proposals For a Wealth Tax Package to...
