Polling for 5 Lok Sabha, 35 assembly seats begins in Odisha amid tight security
Bhubaneswar: Polling for five Lok Sabha constituencies and 35 assembly seats in Odisha began amid tight security Monday, officials said. Voting commenced at 7 am in Aska, Kandhamal, Bolangir, Bargarh, and Sundargarh parliamentary constituencies, along with 35 assembly segments within these Lok Sabha seats. Approximately 79.69 lakh voters are eligible...
Read morePM Modi offers prayers at Jagannath temple in Puri, leads roadshow
Puri (Odisha): Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered prayers at the Jagannath temple in Puri Monday morning, and led a roadshow here to canvass support for candidates of the BJP. He led the roadshow from Marichkote square to Medical square on Grand Road in Puri. The PM was accompanied by state BJP president Manmohan Samal, the party's MP candidate Sambit Patra and Puri MLA nominee Jayanta Sarangi. Thousands of people lined up...
Read moreRBI Governor Das casts vote in Mumbai, urges all electors to exercise democratic right
Mumbai: Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das cast his vote here early Monday morning and urged all electors to exercise their franchise. Polling was underway since 7 am in six Lok Sabha constituencies in Mumbai and seven other seats in Maharashtra. “I urge all the voters to vote…this is a right in our parliamentary democracy and everyone should exercise it,” Das told PTI after casting his vote at a polling centre near...
Read moreVoting underway in 5th phase of LS polls, several bigwigs in fray
New Delhi: Voters in 49 Lok Sabha seats in eight states/UTs, spanning Ladakh to Odisha, and UP's Awadh and Bundelkhand to bustling Mumbai and its surroundings, began heading to polling stations Monday to exercise their franchise in the fifth phase. Union Ministers Rajnath Singh (Lucknow), Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North), and Smriti Irani (Amethi), Congress leader Rahul Gandhi (Raebareli) and National Conference's Omar Abdullah (Baramulla) are among the 695 candidates in the...
Read moreHelicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers ‘hard landing’, state TV says without further details
Dubai: A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without immediately elaborating. Raisi was travelling in Iran's East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometres (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran. Travelling with Raisi were Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran's East...
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PM Modi offers prayers at Jagannath temple in Puri, leads roadshow
Puri (Odisha): Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered prayers at the Jagannath temple in Puri Monday morning, and led a roadshow here to canvass support for candidates of the BJP. He led the roadshow from Marichkote square to Medical square on Grand Road in Puri. The PM was accompanied by state BJP president Manmohan Samal, the party's MP...
Shahid Kapoor says ‘every vote matters’ as he shows his inked finger
Mumbai: Actor Shahid Kapoor was among the early voters Monday morning, joining the likes of Akshay Kumar, Farhan Akhtar, and Janhvi Kapoor to cast his vote. On Monday morning, Shahid took to his Instagram stories and shared a picture of himself sitting in a car, wearing a white T-shirt and sunglasses. The actor posed for a selfie,...
LS Polls: Hindi film actors Akshay Kumar, Janhvi Kapoor among early-bird voters in Mumbai
Mumbai: Voting started peacefully for the fifth and final phase of 2024 Lok Sabha elections for 13 constituencies in Maharashtra, with Hindi film actor Akshay Kumar being among the early voters along with many other celebs and commoners, here Monday. Voting got underway in all six Lok Sabha seats in Mumbai at 7 a.m. with people queuing...
RBI Governor Das casts vote in Mumbai, urges all electors to exercise democratic right
Mumbai: Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das cast his vote here early Monday morning and urged all electors to exercise their franchise. Polling was underway since 7 am in six Lok Sabha constituencies in Mumbai and seven other seats in Maharashtra. “I urge all the voters to vote…this is a right in our parliamentary democracy and everyone should...
Satellite survey reveals huge fraud in paddy cultivation
Sonepur: A satellite survey has exposed ‘fake’ cultivation of paddy on 9,018 plots by some unscrupulous farmers and land owners. The survey has unearthed that in reality paddy was not cultivated during the 2023-24 Rabi season in various areas of Subarnapur district, sources informed Sunday. Sources pointed out that hundreds of farmers including landowners got their names...
Teacher on poll duty dies in Bolangir
Bolangir: In a tragic mishap, a teacher died while discharging poll duty at a polling station in DAV Colle ge of Titilagarh in Bolangir district, Sunday morning. The deceased teacher was identified as Sushil Kumar Acharya, a teacher of Patuapali Upper Primary School under Agalpur block in Bolangir district. According to sources, Sushil who was assigned the...
Youth killed over past enmity
Paralakhemundi: A youth was killed Saturday evening in a group attack by residents of a neighbouring village over past enmity near Saradhapur cremation ground under Gurandi police limits in Gajapati district. The deceased was identified as Prasant Jena, 24, of Bhinnala village. Some youths of Saradhapur village attacked him with sharp-edged weapons and also beat up the...
Tough time ahead for tipplers in Rourkela
Rourkela: With the Sundargarh Lok Sabha constituency and the Assembly segments in it going to polls Monday, the district administration has closed down all liquor shops in this town. The restrictions were imposed Saturday from 4.00 pm onwards and the shops will again open May 21. Officials said that as a precautionary measure, 28 IMFL liquor shops,...
2 more held in BJP worker murder case
Chhatrapur: Police arrested Sunday two more persons for their alleged involvement in the murder of a BJP worker at Srikrushna Saranpur village under Khallikote police limits in Ganjam district. With the new arrests, the total number of persons so far held in the case has gone up to 11, Ganjam SP Jagmohan Meena said at a press...
1 dead, another hurt in Koraput landslide
Koraput: In a tragic incident near Lathiguda village in Dasamantapur block of this district, a man was killed and another was seriously injured Saturday in a landslide. The injured person is currently undergoing treatment at the Koraput Medical College here. The deceased was identified as Madhu Badanayak, 35, and the injured person is Dambarudhara Badanayak, 30. Eye...
