23:55
Union minister and BJP candidate from Amethi Lok Sabha seat Smriti Irani Thursday submitted to the Election Commission that she did not complete her graduation from Delhi University.In her affidavit filed during her nomination, Irani, who is contesting against Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, said...
22:31
The Election Commission has barred NaMo TV from broadasting any political content.In a letter to Chief Electoral Officer, Delhi, the poll panel states, It has been confirmed by you that there has not been any pre-certification of the content being displayed on NaMo TV/Content TV, by the MCMC...
22:25
The Election Commission Thursday issued a show cause notice to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for his Ali and Bajrang Bali remarks while addressing a rally in Meerut. Finding him prima facie guilty of violating the model code of conduct, the commission asked him to respond by...
21:42
A Mumbai court on Thursday allowed Peter Mukerjea, an accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, to stay for some more time at a city-based private hospital where he underwent a bypass surgery last month.CBI court judge J C Jagdale allowed the former media baron to continue treatment at the...
21:39
The HRD ministry on Thursday appointed vice chancellors to three universities after the Election Commission gave its nod as the Model Code of Conduct is in place due to the Lok Sabha elections. The three universities are Jamia Millia Islamia, Mahatma Gandhi Central University in Motihari...
20:37
Cash-strapped Jet Airways has cancelled all international flights for Thursday, sources in the airline said. The move comes in the midst of the airline grounding more than three-fourth of its 119-aircraft fleet.All international flights of Jet Airways have been cancelled for Thursday, the...
20:24
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Thursday declared personal assets worth Rs 11.82 crore, according to the affidavit she submitted while filing her nomination papers in Rae Bareli. During the 2014 general elections, she had declared total assets worth Rs 9.28 crore.Gandhi's movable assets...
19:34
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London on a United States warrant charging him over his alleged role in a massive leak of military and diplomatic documents in 2010, the Justice Department said on Thursday.Assange faces up to five years in jail on a federal charge of 'conspiracy...
18:37
Polling for seven Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra and the Naxal-affected Bastar constituency in neighbouring Chhattisgarh came to an end at 5 pm Thursday.Following are the turnouts in various states till 5 pm:Bihar: 50.26%Telangana: 60.57%Meghalaya: 62%Manipur: 78.20% Lakshadweep: 65.9% Assam: 68%...
18:27
At least four persons were hurt on Thursday as supporters of National Conference and Peoples Conference clashed at a polling station in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency, officials said.The incident took place at a polling station in Sumbal area of Bandipora district, they...
17:57
Union Minister Smriti Irani's 'Man Friday' Ravi Dutt Mishra, at whose house she used to stay whenever she visited her constituency, Amethi, joined the Congress party on Thursday.It is said that Mishra had brought BJP leader Smriti Irani to Amethi. Irani used to stay at Mishra's house whenever she...
17:50
A Naxal was killed in a gunbattle with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district on the day of polling for the Bastar Lok Sabha constituency on Thursday, police said. The encounter took place in the restive Orchha area of the district when ultras attacked a team of security...
17:36
A green laser light pointed at Congress president Rahul Gandhi during his roadshow in Amethi on Wednesday created a scare, but the Home Ministry said there was no threat to his life.However, sources said that a security breach was alleged when the laser light was seen pointed at the head of Rahul...
17:18
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, arrested in London on Thursday after Ecuador withdrew his political asylum, will not be extradited to any country where he could face 'torture or the death penalty', Ecuador's president said.'I asked Great Britain the guarantee that Mr Assange will not be...
17:13
Voter turnouts till 3 pm in various states going to polls today:Jammu and Kashmir- 46.17%Maharashtra - 46.13%Andhra Pradesh - 55%Arunachal Pradesh - 50.87% Sikkim - 55%Bihar - 41.73%Uttar Pradesh - 50%Telangana - 48.95%
16:47
Naxals triggered an improvised explosive device blast near a polling booth in Maharashtra's Gadchroli district on Thursday while voting for the Lok Sabha poll was underway, police said.There were no casualties, a police official said.The IED blast took place around 10.30 am in Waghezari area,...
16:35
The heartwarming story of the day and one that UP CM Yogi Adityanath should read. He had said on Tuesday, that if the opposition had faith in Ali, the BJP had faith in Bajrangbali. So, this is the story of Saddam Hussain, a 27-year-old Muslim man, who has been cleaning and taking care...
16:12
UPA chief Sonia Gandhi filed her nomination from Rae Bareli in the afternoon. Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Robert Vadra were also present.
16:07
Maharashtra: Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and his wife Amruta Fadnavis cast their vote at a polling station in Nagpur earlier today. Union minister and sitting MP Nitin Gadkari is facing Congress' Nana Patole in Nagpur constituency. Both Gadkari and Fadnavis hail from Nagpur. The chief...
15:56
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday slammed the Congress for indulging in corruption and said a new scam Tughlaq Road Chunav Ghotala by it has come to the fore. In the new scam crores of rupees meant for nutrition of poor children and expectant mothers have been seized even even as old cases...
15:45
BJP's version of the 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas' promise of 2014, that has never been heard of again in the last couple of years. This tweet is from @BJP4India, the party's official Twitter handle. We will ensure implementation of NRC in the entire country. We will remove every single...
15:42
Some policemen on election duty in Noida were served meals in packets labelled Namo Foods, following which officials clarified that those were procured from Namo Food Shop and not from any political party. The food packets, brought in the boot of a hatchback car, were distributed around 9.30...
15:33
Not a promising start for the Lok Sabha polls. Naxal ambushes, smashed EVM, BSF firing in the air to stop people voting with out an ID and finally, a TDP leader and a YSR Congress leader were killed in Andhra Pradesh.A ruling Telugu Desam partyworker and another belonging to the main opposition...
14:54
In Amethi, Union Minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani files her nomination papers. Irani performed 'puja' ahead of filing her nomination. She is pitted against Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Her husband Zubin Irani was also present at the 'puja'.Rahul Gandhi, a three-time Member of Parliament...
14:43
This is how India voted till 1 pm
14:34
The world's smallest woman, Jyoti Amge, casts her vote at a polling station in Nagpur.
14:27
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who is in Rae Bareli, when asked if she thinks PM Narendra Modi is invincible, said, Not at all. Don't forget 2004. Vajpayeeji was invincible, but we won.Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who accompanied his mother as she is set to file her nomination papers in the...
14:17
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and his wife cast their vote at a polling booth in Siddipet district. Telangana registered 22.84 per cent polling till 11 am as polling in the first of the seven-phased general elections began on Thursday, according to an official...
13:57
TDP leader S Bhaskar Reddy killed in clashes in Tadipatri town of Anantapur. TDP has alleged that YSRCP workers are behind the incident.In Mumbai, the death toll in the 14th March incident of a foot overbridge collapse near Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus railway station rises to 7. A...
13:48
Sonia Gandhi holds a roadshow ahead of filing her nomination papers.
13:36
And the original yogi, Baba Ramdev, casts his vote at a polling station in Haridwar.
13:34
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath holds a roadshow in Amethi for Union minister Smriti Irani. Around 60 km away in Rae Bareli, Sonia Gandhi is holding a road show as well.
13:12
And Mehbooba Mufti says, A voter at a polling booth in Jammu was manhandled by the BSF because he refused to cast his vote for BJP. Using armed forces at polling stations to coerce people to vote for the BJP shows their desperation and hunger to usurp power by hook or crook.
13:09
The District Election Officer in Poonch (J&K) on Omar Abdullah's tweet that the Congress button was not working at Poonch polling stations: There was an issue with the Congress button in Shahpur and our staff replaced the machine. At another polling station the BJP button wasn't working;...
13:00
UPA chief Sonia Gandhi sat down to a 'havan' ahead of filing her nomination from the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency. With her were also Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The havan took place at the Congress party's office in Rae Bareli. She will then go on a 700-metre road show before...
12:37
Andhra Pradesh: Jana Sena Chief Pawan Kalyan at the polling booth set up at Chaitanya School in Vijayawada. His MLA Madhusudhan Gupta, was arrested today after he smashed an EVM at a polling booth in Gooty, in Anantapur district.
12:26
Telangana: Khammam Congress candidate Renuka Choudhary casts her vote. I am hopeful that we will be able to win this race, I am very optimistic.
12:19
The Indo Tibetan Border Police and Chhattisgarh Police joint party on Thursday came under a Naxal ambush in Narayanpur in the early morning hours while on their way to a polling booth. No casualties have been reported so far.Naxals triggered an IED following which they fired on the 60...
12:15
Maharashtra: IED blast by naxals near a polling booth in Etapalli in Gadchiroli district, no injuries reported.
12:15
Maharashtra: IED blast by naxals near a polling booth in Etapalli in Gadchiroli district, no injuries reported.
12:04
24.32 per cent voter turnout recorded till 11 am in 8 parliamentary constituencies.
11:55
In the season of elections, here's some relief. The Uttar Pradesh Police has broken the back of a gang that used to steal bees. Apparently stealing apiaries -- beehives in small boxes -- is widespread in the state and thieves make a lot of money doing this. Ninety boxes of bees have been...
11:52
Lok Sabha candidate of Jana Sena Party (JSP), Madhusudan Gupta, on Wednesday broke an Electronic Voting Machine at a polling booth in Gooty town in Anantapuram alleging that the names of Assembly and Lok Sabha seats had not been properly displayed in the voting chamber.Gupta reached the polling...
11:44
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal casts his vote at a polling station in Dibrugarh. Five seats in Assam will go to polls, with former CM Tarun Gogoi's son Gaurav Gogoi testing poll waters from Kaliabor.
11:25
Meanwhile, in Amethi, Union Minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani and her husband Zubin Irani perform pooja ahead of filing her nomination from the Amethi parliamentary constituency.
11:22
The humble turmeric and red sorghum (a kind of millet like jowar) will decide who who wins the Nizamabad seat. As polling got underway in Telangana for the 17 Lok Sabha constituencies on Thursday, it is Nizamabad that has become the cynosure of all eyes with a large number of candidates in...
11:04
Kashmiri Pandits in Udhampur cast their votes for the Baramulla parliamentary constituency at a special polling station set-up at Municipal Town Hall. A voter says, We are migrants here. It's our duty to vote. We want to return to Baramulla.
10:58
Four Naxals were arrested and three firearms seized from them in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district Thursday while polling was underway in the state's Bastar Lok Sabha constituency, a police official said. The Naxals, belonging to Maad division of Maoists, were apprehended from Bedre area in...
10:51
People turned up in large numbers to cast their vote in the Naxal-affected parliamentary constituency of Bastar. Voters queued up to exercise their franchise in Dantewada and Sukma areas amid heavy security. On Tuesday, Naxals triggered an IED blast in Dantewada, which killed sitting BJP...
10:31
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari votes at polling booth number 220 in Nagpur parliamentary constituency.
10:29
Union Minister and Muzaffarnagar BJP candidate Dr. Sanjiv Balyan: Faces of women in burkhas are not being checked and I allege that fake voting is being done. If not looked into, I will demand a repoll.Baliyan, who is a minister in the Yogi Adityanath government, is an accused in the...
10:18
Voting began on a peaceful note Thursday in Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency in Jammu and Kashmir, with voters in Kupwara, Handwara and Uri turning out early morning to exercise their franchise, officials said. Amid tight security, polling began across the constituency at 7 am and has...
10:06
Polling is underway in 17 Lok Sabha constituencies in Telangana on Thursday, where former Union minister Renuka Chowdary and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi are among the prominent candidates who are in the fray. Polling in 16 constituencies began at 7 am, while voting process in Nizamabad...
09:58
Ambrose D'Mello, the Independent candidate from Bengaluru South, has been on maun vrat for 15 years. He does not own a house, does not wear footwear and sells books to earn a living. Rediff.com's Archana Masih met the activist who could perhaps be the poorest candidate in this election, but has...
09:55
In Bandipora, Kashmir, Ghulam Mohammed (pictured alongside), standing in the queue to vote says, This time we want to vote for someone who will raise our specific issues in Parliament. We want harmony in the region and as you can see voting is underway smoothly and in a peaceful...
09:43
The great festival of democracy - the Lok Sabha elections - has begun with 91 seats across 20 states going to vote in the first of the seven phase elections to elect the 17th Lok Sabha.While many states will witness elections in multiple phases, states such as Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh,...
09:27
>> 11% voter turn out recorded in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh in 2 hours between 7 am - 9 am.>> 15% voter turn out recorded in Gautam Buddh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh in 2 hours between 7 am - 9 am.>> 11% voter turn out recorded in Gaya, Bihar in 2 hours between 7 am - 9 am.>> 21%...
09:14
Voting has begun for Phase 1 of Lok Sabha election 2019, which will see ninety-one Lok Sabha constituencies spread across 18 states and two Union Territories, including all seats in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, choose their representatives today. News18 reports that an IED blast took place...
08:51
IMAGE: 95-year-old Shanti Devi casts her vote in Jammu-Kashmir's Samba. Photograph: @DDNewsLive/Twitter
08:38
IMAGE: Senior citizen voters cast their vote at a polling booth in Coochbehar during the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections. Photograph: ANI/Twitter
08:31
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday appealed to those casting their votes in the first phase of the 2019 general elections to turn out in large numbers. 2019 Lok Sabha elections commence today. I call upon all those whose constituencies are voting in the first phase today to turn out in...
08:06
Any guesses who he voted for?The media throngs Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat after he cast his vote for the Nagpur parliamentary constituency in the Lok Sabha elections. Speaking to the media, the RSS head said, Voting is our duty, everyone should vote.
07:47
Polling began this morning in 91 constituencies spread across 18 states and two union territories in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections. Voting is also underway in 175 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, 32 in Sikkim and 28 seats in Odisha. Polling in all the Lok Sabha...
00:14
The Election Commission Wednesday ordered the producers of 'Laxmi's NTR' and 'Udyama Simham', the two biopics based on the lives of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N T Rama Rao and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao respectively, not to release the movies till further orders. ...
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