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 moreIran’s president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site, state media says
Dubai: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash Monday after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country's northwest, state media reported. Raisi was 63. The crash comes as the Middle East remains unsettled by the Israel-Hamas war, during which Raisi under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched an unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel...
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 more
Featured
Trending
More Top Stories
Iran’s president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site, state media says
Dubai: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash Monday after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country's northwest, state media reported. Raisi was 63. The crash comes as the Middle East remains unsettled by the Israel-Hamas war, during which...
‘Bad politicians created by people who go on a picnic on Voting Day’: Paresh Rawal
Mumbai: National Award-winning actor Paresh Rawal and filmmakers Nikhil Advani and Kunal Kohli exercised their right to vote in Mumbai Monday morning. Before going to vote, Rawal took to X and urged his followers to "Plz remember and vote." https://twitter.com/SirPareshRawal/status/1792365467698708546 He then had this to say: "Bad politicians are not born… They are created… Created by...
Odisha records 6.99 per cent voter turnout till 9 am
Bhubaneswar: Odisha recorded around 6.99 per cent voter turnout in the first two hours of polling in five Lok Sabha constituencies and 35 Assembly segments Monday, officials said. Voting started at 7 am in Aska, Kandhamal, Bargarh, Bolangir and Sundergarh parliamentary constituencies along with 35 assembly segments within the jurisdiction of these Lok Sabha seats. Lok Sabha...
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...
