Patna: Bihar Congress chief Rajesh Ram on Friday raised doubts over the “integrity” of the counting process even as Election Commission trends placed the NDA comfortably ahead of the Mahagathbandhan. The Election Commission’s numbers delivered a sweeping early advantage to the ruling alliance. By late morning, the NDA had crossed the 166-seat mark, while the…
Patna: The ruling NDA was leading in 166 seats, surpassing the majority mark of 122, in early trends as counting was underway for the Bihar assembly polls on Friday morning, according to the Election Commission. The opposition INDIA bloc was way behind, leading in 59 of the 243 seats in the assembly. The tally is…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday offered tributes to India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary. “Tributes to former Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Ji on the occasion of his birth anniversary,” Modi said in a post on X. Nehru was born on this date in 1889 in Allahabad in…
Srinagar: The house of Dr Umar Nabi, who drove the explosive-laden car involved in the Delhi blast, has been demolished by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, officials said on Friday. The demolition was carried out during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, they said. The car blast near the Red Fort…
Patna: The ruling NDA was ahead in 111 assembly seats, as compared to 33 of the opposition INDIA bloc, according to trends available on the Election Commission’s website. The BJP was leading in 48 seats, the JD(U) in 44, LJP (Ram Vilas) in 13 and HAM in three. The RJD was leading in 23 seats,…
Patna: Elaborate security arrangements have been made for Friday’s counting of votes polled in the Bihar assembly elections, across 46 centres in 38 districts of the state, officials said. Schools in Patna will remain closed on Friday in view of the counting exercise, they said. Bihar had registered a historic voter turnout of 67.13 per…
Jammu: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday called for the strictest punishment against those responsible for the deadly Delhi blast, but cautioned against branding people of Jammu and Kashmir as sympathisers of terrorism. Talking to reporters, Abdullah said the actions of a “handful of people” should not define the vast majority of peace-loving residents of…
Kolkata: The TMC on Thursday tore into the EC and the BJP after UIDAI disclosed that around 32-34 lakh Aadhaar numbers have been deactivated in West Bengal, and alleged the figures point to a “silent invisible rigging” designed to erase living voters from the rolls ahead of the assembly elections due next year. The party…
Patna: Women outdid men by 14 percentage points and more in voter turnout in seven districts of Bihar, where assembly elections were recently held, as per the Election Commission. In 10 other districts, the gap was over 10 percentage points. Patna, however, was the only district in the state to have recorded more turnout of…
New Delhi: Fresh CCTV footage from the day of the Delhi blast shows prime suspect Dr Umar Nabi walking near a mosque close to the Ramlila Maidan, police said on Thursday. In the footage, Umar can be seen walking straight along a narrow lane before turning his head to the right — the moment when…
