Bengaluru: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, software industry icon N R Narayana Murthy, his wife and Rajya Sabha member Sudha Murty, former cricketer Rahul Dravid and actor Prakash Raj were among the early voters as polling began in 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka on Friday. Many booths reported brisk voting in the first hour of…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people on Friday to cast their votes in record numbers in the second phase of the Lok Sabha polls and said a high voter turnout strengthens democracy. Asserting that their vote is their voice, Modi especially told the young voters and women voters to turn up at the…
Bengaluru: Voting was underway on Friday in the first phase of Lok Sabha polls in 14 constituencies in Karnataka. Polling began at 7 am and will end at 6 pm. A total of 247 candidates — 226 men and 21 women — are in the fray for the first phase covering most of the southern…
Islamabad: An anti-corruption court in Pakistan on Thursday barred former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi from issuing provocative statements against state institutions, including the army, and officials. During the hearing of a petition seeking a fair trial, Judge Basir Javed Rana of the Accountability Court in Islamabad also said the media…
Hyderabad: Rajat Patidar’s explosive fifty and a collective effort from the spinners set up Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s 35-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL here on Thursday, bringing an end to their six-match losing streak. Patidar’s 50 off 20 balls stood in stark contrast to Virat Kohli’s measured 51 off 43 balls as RCB…
Shahjahanpur (UP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hit out at the alliance of Samajwadi Party and Congress in Uttar Pradesh and alleged that “do shehzade” (two princes) have come together for the politics of appeasement. Without taking any names but in an apparent attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh…
Surat: The controversy surrounding Nilesh Kumbhani, the Congress party’s Surat constituency candidate who gave a walkover to the BJP, refuses to die down even after five days. On Thursday, his wife Nita Kumbhani appeared before the media and claimed that her husband Nilesh Kumbhani has been missing since the last five days. Nita, speaking to…
Hyderabad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah made a bold assertion, declaring that if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) regains power in the Centre following the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, they would terminate the 4% job reservations designated for Muslims in Telangana. Shah emphasized that instead, these reservations would be allocated to Backward Classes (BC), Scheduled…
New Delhi: Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Shashi Tharoor, and actor-turned-politician Arun Govil are among the key candidates in the fray for the second phase of the Lok Sabha polls with BJP’s Hema Malini, Om Birla and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat seeking a hat-trick of wins from their respective constituencies. Staggered over seven stages, the first…
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is the “kingpin and key conspirator” of the excise policy scam and the arrest of a person for an offence based on material can never violate the “concept of free and fair elections”, the ED has told the Supreme Court. The Enforcement Directorate claimed that Kejriwal worked in…
