Kolkata, May 7 (UNI) Bengal witnessed an estimated 49.27 per cent turnout in the first till 1 PM on Tuesday in the third phase election to four Lok Sabha seats. While Murshidabad recorded 50.58 per cent polling, Jangipur recorded 49.91 per cent, Malda (North) 47.89 per cent and Malda (South) 48.65 per cent.Bypoll is also…
Srinagar, May 7 (UNI) Two militants were killed in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Tuesday, police said. One of the slain is suspected to be most wanted local “The Resistance Front” commander. Official confirmation on the identity of the slain militants is still awaited The militants were killed in an overnight…
Patna, May 7 (UNI) RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday vouched that the Muslims should definitely be extended reservation facilities. Strongly targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his allegation that INDIA bloc would extend reservation to Muslims from the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) quota in government services at national level if voted to power, Prasad…
New Delhi, May 7 (UNI) Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said on Tuesday, in a letter to the leaders of INDIA block parties, while expressing concern over the ‘discrepancies in the voting data’ released by the Election Commission of India, that the ‘credibility of the constitutional body was at an all-time low’. “It is in the…
New Delhi, May 7 (UNI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah appealed to the people voting for the third phase of Lok Sabha election on Tuesday, to vote for a corruption-free, caste-free, and dynasticism-free system. While voting, Shah urged the people to elect a government that has experience in public welfare and a blueprint for a…
Chhatrapati Sambhaijnagar (Maharashtra), May 7 (UNI) AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has condemned Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his repeated “unsavoury” attacks on the Muslims and branding the community as “intruders” and alleging that in future Hindu women will be robbed of their “mangalsutras” to benefit Muslims. The Prime Minister Modi has tried to create grave…
Cairo, May 7 (UNI) Egypt has informed the Palestinian side that Israel’s security operation in the vicinity of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing will end on Tuesday morning, a high-rank official has said. “Egypt has inquired about the Israeli incursion in the vicinity of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, the only…
Lima, May 7 (UNI) At least 10 people were killed when a passenger bus veered off the road and overturned in the predawn hours of Monday in southern Peru’s Puno region, local media reported. The interprovincial bus, operated by a company called Transportes Turismo Universal, was traveling along the Puno-Cusco route when the accident occurred…
Ahmedabad, May 7 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi cast his vote on Tuesday in the third phase of Lok Sabha election here in his home state. Union Minister Amit Shah, who is in the fray from Gandhinagar, also exercised his franchise. The prime minister cast his vote at the Nishan Higher Secondary School in Ranip,…
Gandhinagar, May 7 (UNI) Voting started simultaneously for all 25 parliamentary seats and five assembly by-elections in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state Gujarat at 7 am on Tuesday. PM Narendra Modi casts his vote at Nishan Higher Secondary School in Ranip, Ahmedabad. The BJP has fielded home minister Amit Shah from the Gandhinagar constituency….
