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New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday said the Election Commission was “egregiously wrong” in directing his party not to ‘politicise’ the Agnipath scheme, asserting that it is the right of an Opposition party to criticise a policy of the government. The Election Commission Wednesday came down heavily on the ruling BJP and…

Kolkata: Barely two days ahead of the parliamentary polls, a woman BJP worker was killed in Nandigram in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district, triggering large-scale protests by the saffron party activists there on Thursday, police said. The region, which falls under the Tamluk Lok Sabha seat and is considered to be the backyard of Bengal’s…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown during the poll campaign that he is always “3X” the next person, including much younger rivals like Rahul Gandhi, Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai has said, asserting that one can discuss “what after Modi” only when someone better in hard work and popularity comes along. “He…

New Delhi: About 121 candidates contesting in the Lok Sabha elections have declared themselves illiterate, and 359 have stated that they have studied up to the 5th grade, according to an analysis of the reports shared by the poll rights body ADR. The data shows that 647 candidates have reported their education level up to…

Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) supremo HD Deve Gowda issued a warning on Thursday to his grandson, Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who has been accused of multiple sexual abuse allegations, to “return immediately from wherever he is” and face the legal process. In an official statement posted on social media platform X,…

 Mumbai: At least five workers were killed and more than 100 others injured in a deafening boiler explosion that rocked a chemical company at the MIDC industrial estate at Dombivli in the neighbouring Thane district, on Thursday. The fire and other rescue officials, who had arrived on the scene soon after the explosion took place…