Bhubaneswar, March 22 : Senior BJD leader and Cuttack MP Bhartruhari Mahtab (66) resigned from the primary membership of the party on Friday. Announcing his decision during a press meet...

New Delhi, March 22 : The Supreme Court on Friday denied any interim relief to BRS leader K.Kavitha, who moved a plea challenging her arrest by the ED in the...

Mumbai, March 22 : Climate action ranks as the second-most crucial factor influencing the choice of political candidates or parties among first-time voters in Maharashtra, according to a recent survey....

Mumbai, March 22 : The BJP has filed a complaint with the Election Commission of India (ECI) against Shiv Sena (UBT) MP and chief spokesman Sanjay Raut for allegedly making...

Kolkata, March 22 : The Trinamool Congress on Friday approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) accusing West Bengal Governor C.V.Ananda Bose of “acting beyond his constitutional jurisdiction” and “running...

New Delhi, March 22 : The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed the Congress’ petition challenging the tax-assessment proceedings initiated against it by the Income Tax (I-T) Department. Pronouncing the...

Mumbai, March 22 : As the clock ticks away for the polls, at least two descendants of the legendary Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj are likely to contest from Kolhapur and Satara,...

Bengaluru, March 22 : Senior JD(S) leader and sitting MLC, Marithibbegowda, joined the Congress party on Friday in Bengaluru in the presence of Karnataka Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah, Deputy CM, DK...

Mumbai, March 22 : Bollywood actor and former MP Govinda is likely to join the Eknath Shinde-led faction of the Shiv Sena. Sources said that the Bollywood actor would be...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 22 : Union Minister and NDA candidate for Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday said that the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is as...

Srinagar, March 22 : Election Commission (EC) on Friday allotted ‘bucket’ as the election symbol to former senior Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad’s political party. A spokesman of Azad’s Democratic...

Chandigarh, March 22 : Aiming to achieve a minimum of 75 per cent voter turnout in Haryana, an increase of five per cent higher than the 2019 Lok Sabha polls,...

Mumbai, March 22 : Two days after his transfer as the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation Commissioner, Iqbal Chahal on Friday was appointed as the additional chief secretary in the Chief Minister’s...

Bhubaneswar, March 22 : Ending all speculations of an alliance with Odisha’s ruling BJD, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s state President Manmohan Samal on Friday announced that his party will fight...

Islamabad, March 22 : Following the recent remarks by US Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asian Affairs, Donald Lu, regarding the US ‘hand’ in toppling former PM...

Thimphu, March 22 : In recognition of his efforts to strengthen India-Bhutan ties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Friday conferred the kingdom’s highest civilian award, the Order of the...

Kolkata, March 22 : The Calcutta High Court on Friday issued a notice to West Bengal Chief Secretary B.P.Gopalika, directing him to specify the deadline by which the state government...

New Delhi, March 22 : Arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is the kingpin of the alleged excise policy scam and is directly involved in its implementation and giving favours...

New Delhi, March 22 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Bhutan Premier Tshering Tobgay in Thimphu on Friday as the two leaders witnessed the exchange of several MoUs and agreements...

Hyderabad, March 22 : The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Friday announced two more candidates for Lok Sabha elections. Former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer R.S.Praveen Kumar, who quit Bahujan...

Chennai, March 22 : The Central Election Committee of the BJP on Friday released the fourth list of 14 candidates for Tamil Nadu and to the lone seat in Puducherry....

Bengaluru, March 22 : As BJP’s National Yuva Morcha chief Tejasvi Surya prepares to repeat his victory in the Bengaluru South Lok Sabha seat, the Congress is hoping that its...

New Delhi, March 22 : Bhutan conferred its highest civilian award, the Order of the Druk Gyalpo, on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, making him the first foreign head...

Lucknow, March 22 : Social media has replaced the traditional poll advertisement methods in Uttar Pradesh (UP) as many of the people associated with the selling of advertising material find...

Bengaluru, March 22 : A snack shop owner selling the popular snack ‘churmuri’ gifted Rs 25,000 for the expenses of the BJP candidate, Kota Srinivas Poojari, contesting election from Udupi-Chikkamagaluru...

Chennai, March 22 : Central Election Committee of the BJP on Friday released the fourth list of 14 candidates for Tamil Nadu and for the single seat in Puducherry, besides...

Hyderabad, March 22 : Telangana’s senior Congress leader, G Niranjan has termed fielding of three defectors from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in the Lok Sabha polls as an insult...

Lucknow, March 22 : The Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) leader, Pallavi Patel, indicated on Friday that her party was ready to ally with the BJP-led NDA if they made such an...

Sitapur, March 22 : Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday met senior party leader Azam Khan, who is lodged in Sitapur jail in Uttar Pradesh. Azam Khan, a former...

Kolkata, March 22 : The sole Lok Sabha constituency in India-Bangladesh bordering Cooch Behar district in Bengal will be an interesting contest for multiple reasons. While BJP’s sitting Lok Sabha...

Panaji, March 22 : Both National Parties, BJP and Congress, for whom winning the South Goa seat has become a prestige issue, are dependent on regional party MGP and AAP...

Mysuru, (Karnataka) March 22 : Karnataka Congress candidate for Mysuru-Kodagu Parliamentary constituency M.Laxman on Friday said that if he gets defeated again in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, it will...

Panaji, March 22 : Both National Parties, BJP and Congress, for whom winning the South Goa seat has become a prestige issue, are dependent on regional party MGP and AAP...

Tokyo, March 22 : The Japanese government on Friday finalised the support measures for areas affected by liquefaction induced by the New Year’s Day earthquake in Japan. The 2024 Noto...

Amaravati, March 22 : Sons of at least six former Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh will be in the fray for May 13 simultaneous polls to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly...

Jaipur, March 22 : Jalore-Sirohi Lok Sabha constituency of Rajasthan has become one of the most talked-about seats in the political corridors of Rajasthan as Congress has fielded former Chief...

New Delhi, March 22 : India and Mauritania held their first Foreign Office Consultations in Nouakchott, during which a wide range of issues from bilateral, regional, to global issues of...

New Delhi, March 22 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visionary production linked incentive (PLI) scheme is scaling new heights everyday on production, exports and jobs, Union Minister of State for...

New Delhi, March 22 : Feelings of warmth and bonhomie overflowed the streets of Bhutan on Friday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi was accorded a rousing welcome from the people...

Amaravati, March 22 : The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Friday announced candidates for 13 Lok Sabha seats and 11 more Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh. With the third list...

Kochi, March 22 : The Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency is dear to the CPI(M) in more ways than one, as it’s the only seat of the 20 in Kerala that...

Lucknow, March 22 : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is popularly known as ‘Bulldozer Baba’ for his justice policy against criminals, has managed to drive most mafia candidates...

New Delhi, March 22 : The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to urgently hear the plea filed by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has been taken into custody by...

New Delhi, March 22 : Bhutan rolled out the red carpet for Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, as the leader landed in the Himalayan kingdom and was accorded a...

New Delhi, March 22 : In anticipation of a planned protest by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders and workers at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in the national...

New Delhi, March 22 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi left on a two-day visit to Bhutan on Friday to cement bilateral ties and hold talks with King Jigme Khesar Namgyel...

New Delhi, March 22 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi left on a two-day visit to Bhutan on Friday to cement bilateral ties and hold talks with King Jigme Khesar Namgyel...

Srinagar, March 22 : Former J&K Chief Minister and National Conference (NC), vice president, Omar Abdullah has said that the party would announce its candidates for three Lok Sabha seats...

Jerusalem, March 22 : Israel’s army continued its raid on Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, claiming that its forces killed more than 140 people and arrested “senior Hamas officials”. Nearly...

Gaza, March 22 : The death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 31,988, the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza said. The Ministry said on...

Jerusalem, March 22 : Israel is set to send a delegation to Qatar for negotiations on a Gaza ceasefire deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement....

Moscow, March 22 : Russia will use all available legal mechanisms and will retaliate if the EU moves forward with plans to use profits from frozen Russian assets to arm...

Nicosia, March 22 : Officials from 36 countries and organisations met to discuss ways of maximising aid to Gaza through the Cyprus sea corridor. Representatives from the UN, the European...

Kiev, March 22 : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Robert Bauer, chair of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Military Committee, discussed support for Kiev during a bilateral meeting, the...

Gaza, March 22 : An average of at least 37 mothers are killed per day due to the ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society...

Lucknow, March 22 : The Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Navdeep Rinwa, has instructed all the district magistrates to ensure that no new fund was released from the MP...

Cairo, March 22 : Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi met with visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss the escalating situation in Gaza, the Egyptian presidency said. The talks,...

Kiev, March 22 : Ukraine received a concessional loan from Canada worth 2 billion Canadian dollars ($1.5 billion), the Ukrainian Finance Ministry said. The 10-year credit, which carries an annual...

Itanagar, March 22 : The Congress on Thursday nominated former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki from the Arunachal West Lok Sabha seat, where he will face sitting MP and...

Puducherry, March 22 : Congress MP from Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency, V.Vaithilingam, will seek re-election from the same seat in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, as the third list of...

Ahmedabad, March 22 : The Congress on Thursday unveiled its list of candidates for 11 Lok Sabha constituencies in Gujarat for the upcoming general elections. Chandanji Thakor, the former Sidhpur...

Kolkata, March 22 : Unaccounted cash worth over Rs 3 crore has been seized by different Central and state agencies from March 1 till date, a senior official in the...

Ahmedabad, March 22 : The Congress on Thursday unveiled its list of candidates for 11 Lok Sabha constituencies in Gujarat for the upcoming general elections. Chandanji Thakor, the former Sidhpur...

Kolkata, March 22 : The All India Secular Front (AISF) on Thursday announced its candidates for eight out of the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal. The eight constituencies...

Ahmedabad, March 22 : Ahmedabad District Election Officer (DEO) and Collector, Praveena D.K, conducted a meeting on Thursday to finalise preparations for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in the state....

Bengaluru, March 22 : The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for 17 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka for the upcoming general elections. Priyanka Jarkiholi, daughter of Karnataka Minister for PWD...

Jaipur, March 21 : The Congress on Thursday released its third list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, including five names for Rajasthan, which will vote in two...

Hyderabad, March 21 : Telangana Chief Minister A.Revanth Reddy, who was elected to the Lok Sabha from Malkajgiri constituency in 2019, on Thursday asked the party leaders to ensure that...

Kolkata, March 21 : The Congress on Thursday named the party candidates for eight out of 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal in its third list for the upcoming...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 21 : The office of the Chief Electoral Officer in Kerala on Thursday released a handbook on the ‘green protocol’ to be followed strictly by campaigners and election...

Mumbai, March 21 : The Congress has fielded Chhatrapati Shrimant Shahu Maharaj from Kolhapur and Praniti Sushilkumar Shinde from Solapur (SC) Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra of the 8 candidates...

Noida, March 21 : BJP MP Mahesh Sharma, who has been fielded from Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Budh Nagar constituency for the third consecutive time, sees no leader in the opposition...

New Delhi, March 21 : The Congress on Thursday released its third list for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, naming 56 candidates from eight states, including its leader in the...

Mumbai, March 21 : The Congress has fielded Chhatrapati Shrimant Shahu Maharaj from Kolhapur and Praniti Sushilkumar Shinde from Solapur (SC) Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra of the 7 candidates...

New Delhi, March 21 : In a high-stakes legal battle, Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal finds himself embroiled in a fierce confrontation with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over a series of...

New Delhi, March 21 : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was taken into custody on Thursday evening by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the liquor policy case after being questioned...

Hyderabad, March 21 : Mahabubnagar Lok Sabha constituency in Telangana is set to witness an interesting three-cornered contest in the May 13 election. The fight will be a repeat of...

Itanagar, March 21 : The Central Election Committee (CEC) of the BJP on Thursday changed its candidate for the Tezu Assembly seat in Arunachal Pradesh, replacing Badang Tayang with Mohesh...

New Delhi, March 21 : In another setback to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was arrested by the ED on Thursday evening, the Supreme Court is not holding any...

Patna March 21 : The Hindustani Awam Morcha-Secular (HAM-S) on Thursday fielded former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi as its candidate for the Lok Sabha elections from Gaya. As...

Mumbai, March 21 : Indicating an internal tussle, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is expected to announce the list of its Maharashtra Lok Sabha candidates by the weekend, Congress state...

Srinagar, March 21 : Sama Shabir, the daughter of jailed separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah, on Thursday distanced herself from her father’s ideology and declared allegiance to India as a...

Itanagar, March 21 : The Congress on Thursday announced its first list of 34 candidates for the 60-member Arunachal Pradesh assembly elections, scheduled on April 19. Arunachal Pradesh Congress president...

Mumbai, March 21 : To ensure free and fair polling during the Lok Sabha elections, the Income Tax Department in Mumbai has set up an election expenditure monitoring mechanism consisting...

New Delhi, March 21 : In a bid to advance the vision of digital inclusion, the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology...

Aizawl, March 21 : The Congress on Thursday nominated former Mizoram Police official Lalbiakzama as the party’s candidate for the state’s lone Lok Sabha seat. State Congress chief, Lal Thanzara,...

New Delhi, March 21 : An ED team reached Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence on Thursday evening, hours after the Delhi High Court denied him protection against “coercive action”...

Kolhapur (Maharashtra), March 21 : Saroj Patil, the elderly sister of Nationalist Congress Party (SP) President Sharad Pawar, asserted on Thursday that “only the party has split, not the Pawar...

Mumbai, March 21 : Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, on Thursday exhorted the party MPs, ministers, legislators and office-bearers to work 24×7 for achieving the MahaYuti’s 45 plus target in Maharashtra...

Moga, March 21 : Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal said on Thursday that the hooch tragedy in Sangrur, which is the home district of Chief Minister Bhagwant...

Agartala, March 21 : For the first time in the 72-year electoral history of Tripura, the Left parties and the Congress are contesting together in the parliamentary polls to take...

Chennai, March 21 : Former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan will be the BJP candidate from the Chennai South Lok Sabha seat, as per the party’s third list released on Thursday....

Colombo, March 21 : The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced on Thursday that it has reached a staff-level agreement with Sri Lanka to release the next tranche of the promised...

Colombo, March 21 : To meet the sharp rise in the cost of construction in Sri Lanka due to the ongoing financial crisis, India would provide up to 50 per...

New Delhi, March 21 : The Delhi High Court recently disposed off former India cricketer and BJP MP Gautam Gambhir’s defamation lawsuit against Hindi daily Punjab Kesari seeking damages of...

New Delhi, March 21 : The Delhi High Court has issued notices on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the Delhi government’s utilisation of the state’s consolidated fund to disburse...

Kolhapur (Maharashtra), March 21 : Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) President, Uddhav Thackeray paid a courtesy call on Chhatrapati Shrimant Shahu Maharaj at his Kolhapur palace on...

Bengaluru, March 21 : Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K.Shivakumar on Thursday said that everything has been finalised by the Congress in connection with candidates for the remaining Lok Saba constituencies...

New Delhi, March 21 : The Supreme Court on Thursday took strong exception to Tamil Nadu Governor’s refusal to administer the oath to K Ponmudi as a minister in the...

Chennai, March 21 : Tamil Nadu’s opposition AIADMK on Thursday released its second and final list of 17 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in the state as well as...

Amritsar, March 21 : After witnessing the embarrassing defeats of party stalwarts Arun Jaitley and Hardeep Singh Puri from the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat, which is traditionally a Congress bastion,...

Bhopal, March 21 : Former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who is BJP’s candidate from the Vidisha Lok Sabha seat, on Thursday boarded sleeper coach of a train from Bhopal...

Amaravati, March 21 : Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national president N.Chandrababu Naidu has dismissed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy’s claims of fulfilling 99 per cent of his election...

Kolkata, March 21 : The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the West Bengal government to file an action taken report (ATR) on the collapse of a five-storey under-construction building...

Kolkata, March 21 : The Election Commission of India’s (ECI) directive on Thursday to remove four District Magistrates (DMs) in West Bengal could have been avoided, had the state government...

Islamabad, March 21 : Two soldiers were killed and 15 others injured in a suicide attack in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday, official sources confirmed. The incident...

New Delhi, March 21 : In a latest affidavit filed on Wednesday, the State Bank of India (SBI) told the Supreme Court that it has disclosed all the details of...

Kochi, Mar 21 : A day after speculation surfaced that three-time former Kerala CPI-M legislator S.Rajendran might join the BJP, things appeared to have cooled down on Thursday with the...

Kolkata, March 21 : This is probably for the first time that Balurghat, the sole Lok Sabha constituency on the Indo-Bangladesh bordering South Dinajpur district of West Bengal, is so...

New Delhi, March 21 : Expressing strong dissatisfaction with the US remarks on Arunachal Pradesh, China on Thursday said that the border issues between Beijing and New Delhi have nothing...

Jaipur, March 21 : Veteran BJP leader Prahlad Gunjal on Thursday joined the Congress in the presence of former Rajasthan Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot and PCC chief Govind Singh Dotasra,...

Gonda (UP), March 21 : BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s sprawling home ‘Shakti Bhawan’ in Gonda, is bustling with activity even in his absence. Singh’s ticket has not yet...

Gonda (UP), March 21 : BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s sprawling home ‘Shakti Bhawan’ in Gonda, is bustling with activity even in his absence. Singh’s ticket has not yet...

Patna, March 21 : Even as the INDIA bloc’s seat sharing formula has not been finalised in Bihar, the RJD has given tickets to three candidates for the Lok Sabha...

New Delhi, March 21 : The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a notification issued by the Centre establishing Fact Checking Unit (FCU) under the Press Information Bureau (PIB) to prevent...

Lucknow, March 21 : They had toiled day and night to build the party.They were handpicked by late Kanshi Ram for the Bahujan Samaj movement that he converted into a...

Gonda (UP), March 21 : BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s sprawling home ‘Shakti Bhawan’ in Gonda, is bustling with activity even in his absence. Singh’s ticket has not yet...

Bengaluru, March 21 : Former Karnataka Chief Minister and sitting BJP MP, DV Sadananda Gowda, who had hinted at raising the banner of revolt after denial of ticket to contest...

Ahmedabad, March 21 : The Ahmedabad District Collectorate is making efforts to promote inclusivity for the 30,730 registered People with Disabilities (PwDs) or Divyang voters for the forthcoming Lok Sabha...

Bengaluru, March 21 : Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot has returned the controversial Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments (Amendment) Bill, 2024 proposing tax for temples, and asked if the state...

New Delhi, March 21 : The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed pleas seeking to stay fresh appointments to the Election Commission of India (ECI), made under the legislation which excludes...

Lucknow, March 21 : Pokemon, Doraemon, Chhota Bheem and Barbie are no longer on the shelves.They have been replaced with sprinklers, shaped like bulldozers, and a double engine one that...

Mumbai, March 21 : Even as the process for nomination filing has begun in five Lok Sabha constituencies from the Vidarbha region, MahaYuti and Maha Vikas Aghadi have swung into...

Chennai, March 21 : The main Opposition party of Tamil Nadu, the AIADMK has reworked its poll strategy and is trying to woo the minority Muslim community to its fold....

Kochi, March 21 : A tough Lok Sabha poll battle has returned to Chalakudy constituency in Kerala after nearly a decade. While the Congress has decided to retain Benny Behanan...

Patna, March 21 : The alliance politics has not yielded dividends for the Congress in Bihar where it has been in partnership for the last 26 years. The party has...

Seoul, March 21 : South Korea’s health ministry on Thursday said it would begin suspending the medical licences of trainee doctors who have defied a return-to-work order from next week,...

Washington, March 21 : Recognising Arunachal Pradesh as Indian territory, the US has said that it “strongly opposes” any unilateral attempts to advance territorial claims across the Line of Actual...

New Delhi, March 21 : The beating of drums, motivated speeches and sound of sloganeering reverberated throughout the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus here on Wednesday evening as the eight...

Lucknow, March 21 : The ODOP Scheme has immensely benefited the handicraft traders and is also enhancing the innovative skills of the artisans in Uttar Pradesh, said a government spokesman....

Lucknow, March 21 : Uttar Pradesh Chief electoral officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa has asked all candidates contesting the Lok Sabha elections to have separate bank accounts which will help in...

Chennai, March 21 : The DMK announced its candidate list on Wednesday by fielding sitting MP D.M.Kathir Anand from Vellore Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu in the upcoming Lok...

Tel Aviv, March 21 : US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will visit Israel on Friday and meet the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior leaders. Blinken will...

Tel Aviv, March 21 : US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will visit Israel on Friday and meet the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior leaders. Blinken will...

Tel Aviv, March 21 : US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will visit Israel on Friday and meet the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior leaders. Blinken will...

Lucknow, March 21 : School children in Uttar Pradesh will soon be writing to their parents saying, “My future is linked with a strong democracy of the country and for...

Gaza, March 21 : The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has risen to 31,923, with 74,096 others wounded, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said....

Ahmedabad, March 20 : Gujarat BJP Chief C.R.Paatil on Wednesday set a target for the party to win each Lok Sabha seat in the state by a margin of more...

Bengaluru, March 21 : Karnataka Leader of the Opposition R.Ashoka said on Wednesday that the BJP and the JD-S workers will work and face the Lok Sabha election like “brothers”....

New Delhi, March 21 : Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and State Congress President, D.K.Shivakumar, said on Wednesday that the second list of 17 candidates in the state for the Lok...

Bengaluru, March 21 : Independent MP from Mandya seat in Karnataka, Sumalatha Ambareesh, who is keen to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls from her constituency on a BJP ticket,...

Jaipur, March 20 : Two candidates in Rajasthan filed their nominations for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections on Day 1 of the process for the first phase of elections to...

New Delhi, March 20 : The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea seeking action against politicians Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal, and Akhilesh Yadav for purportedly making false and...

Bengaluru, March 20 : Karnataka BJP MLA S.R.Vishwanath said on Wednesday that if the BJP ticket to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Chikkaballapur is not given to his son,...

Agartala, March 20 : Eight parties of the opposition INDIA bloc in Tripura announced on Wednesday to undertake a joint campaign for the Lok Sabha elections to take on the...

New Delhi, March 20 : The Delhi Police, following the announcement of the Lok Sabha election schedule and the Model Code of Conduct coming into effect, has ramped up its...

Jaipur, March 20 : The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Wednesday named three candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan, who will be contesting from Bharatpur, Kota, and Jalore-Sirohi...

New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, March 20 : Speculations of former Kerala CPI-M legislator S.Rajendran joining the BJP got strengthened as he met senior party leader Prakash Javadekar in the national capital on...

Chennai, March 20 : The DMK is repeating sitting MP Kalanidhi Veeraswamy from the Chennai North Lok Sabha constituency in the 2024 polls. Veeraswamy, 54, a plastic surgeon by profession,...

Mumbai, March 20 : The Maharashtra unit of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday got a severe jolt as its state Women’s Wing President Seema S.Gutte joined the Congress here....

Srinagar, March 20 : After 30 days of closure due to heavy snowfall and avalanches, the Srinagar-Leh highway was made traffic-worthy on Wednesday, officials said. The over 400-km long highway...

Mumbai, march 20 : The ruling MahaYuti partners in Maharashtra — the BJP, Shiv Sena, and the NCP — will hold a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah on...

Kolkata, March 20 : The office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) in West Bengal has received as many as 1,27,726 complaints in the first four days since the Model...

New Delhi, March 20 : A Delhi court has allowed Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K.Kavitha, arrested in a money laundering case related to the alleged Delhi liquor policy scam,...

New Delhi, March 20 : Emerging entrepreneurs supported by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) funding programme on Wednesday interacted with established investors and explored potential collaboration opportunities....

Lucknow, March 20 : The Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh has released another list of six candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Accordingly, the party has fielded Ziaur-Rehman Barq...

Aizawl/Imphal, March 20 : Uncertainty persists over voting by the refugees, who took shelter in Mizoram after the ethnic violence in neighbouring Manipur. Around 10,000 men, women and children belonging...

New Delhi, March 20 : The Centre has defended the fresh appointments to the Election Commission of India, made under the legislation which excludes the Chief Justice of India from...

Mumbai, March 20 : The BJP and the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra have decided to work together for the victory of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s son — Shrikant Shinde, for...

Mumbai, March 20 : The BJP and the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra have decided to work together for the victory of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s son — Shrikant Shinde, for...

Panaji, March 20 : Goa Congress on Wednesday attacked BJP over its alleged misuse of government machinery for political campaigning, saying that they have written a complaint to the Election...

Kolkata, March 20 : The leader of the opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, filed a complaint with the state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Wednesday accusing Trinamool Congress...

Patna, March 20 : Lok Janshakti Party Ram Vilas (LJPR) President Chirag Paswan on Wednesday announced that he will contest the Lok Sabha election from the Hajipur constituency. He said...

New Delhi, March 20 : Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) chief Pappu Yadav’s induction into the Congress has created deep fissures in the party and also left the party’s Bihar chief...

Bhopal, March 20 : The Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Sidhi Lok Sabha seat in the Vindhya region of Madhya Pradesh, Rajesh Mishra, filed his nomination papers on Wednesday.The BJP...

Mumbai, March 20 : A day after the Supreme Court’s directives, the NCP(SP) slammed the rival NCP President, Ajit Pawar, in Mumbai on Wednesday, challenging him to give up the...

Chandigarh, March 20 : Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday termed the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) the “twin dangers” that Punjab faces and appealed...

New Delhi, March 20 : In what is being seen as the outcome of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s massive popularity on the global stage, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev’s expression of...

New Delhi/Guwahati, March 20 : Member of Parliament from Assam’s Barpeta constituency Abdul Khaleque, who quit the Congress on March 15, withdrew his resignation on Wednesday after holding a meeting...

New Delhi, March 20 : The Delhi High Court has issued summons to Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra in a defamation suit filed by lawyer and former partner Jai Anant...

New Delhi, March 20 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday spoke to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and conveyed India’s consistent support for all efforts for peace and bringing an...

Bengaluru, March 20 : Former Karnataka Chief Minister, Jagadish Shettar, is worried over the turn of events in connection with the issue of a ticket to contest the Lok Sabha...

Srinagar, March 20 : Engineer Rashid, the former J&K legislator presently lodged in jail under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, commonly known as UAPA, has decided to fight the Lok...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 20 : Kerala’s Chief Electoral Officer Sanjay Kaul said on Wednesday that as of March 18, the state has 2,72,80,160 voters, including 1,40,95,250 women and 1,31,84,573 men. The...

Chennai, March 20 : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President, MK Stalin said on Wednesday, that if the INDIA bloc was voted to power in the Lok Sabha polls,...

New Delhi, March 20 : CAG institution and IIT Delhi signed an MoU on Wednesday for a partnership in four key areas for use of AI in audit, audit of...

Canberra, March 20 : Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday said differences and disagreements should not define the Australia-China relations, and both countries should seek common interests as far...

New Delhi, March 20 : The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the interim bail plea of Hyderabad-based businessman Abhishek Boinpally, arrested in a money laundering case linked to the alleged...

Lucknow, March 20 : In a significant development, the Apna Dal (K) has announced that it will field its candidates in Phulpur, Mirzapur, and Kaushambhi for the upcoming Lok Sabha...

New Delhi, March 20 : Bulgarian President Rumen Radev expressed his gratitude to President Doupadi Murmu in a phone call on Wednesday after the Indian Navy’s successful rescue operation on...

Hyderabad, March 20 : Ahead of by-election to Secunderabad Cantonment Assembly constituency, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader N.Sri Ganesh, who had unsuccessfully contested the recent polls, joined the Congress party....

New Delhi, March 20 : In the run-up to 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) chief Pappu Yadav joined the Congress at its headquarters in the capital on...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar, March 20 : Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday that no decision has been taken yet on the issue of an alliance between the Bharatiya Janata...

Bhubaneswar, March 20 : A day after tendering his resignation from the Congress, Adhiraj Mohan Panigrahi, the MLA from Odisha’s Khariar Assembly constituency, joined the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) along...

Shimla, March 20 : Fissures within the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh surfaced once again on Wednesday as state party chief Pratibha Singh on Wednesday refused to re-contest from the...

New Delhi, March 20 : The Delhi government on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to urgently hear its plea seeking the release of Delhi Jal Board funds before the current...

Chennai, March 20 : Tamil superstar and former Opposition leader of Tamil Nadu, late Vijayakanth’s son filed his nomination papers from Virudhunagar constituency on a Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK)...

Pune (Maharashtra), March 20 : In a new twist to the ongoing battle for Baramati, a NCP leader on Wednesday threatened to ‘confine’ a Shiv Sena leader if he insists...

New Delhi, March 20 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his landslide victory in the presidential elections on Sunday, and expressed his sincere...

New Delhi, March 20 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold talks with Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay as he lands in the Himalayan...

Lucknow, March 20 : Along with the Lok Sabha elections, Uttar Pradesh will also witness bypolls to four Assembly seats — Lucknow East, Dadraul in Shahjahanpur district, Gainsari in Balrampur...

Jaipur, March 20 : The process for home voting has been initiated in the Lok Sabha elections for the first time in the state as per the instructions of the...

New Delhi, March 20 : External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar said on Wednesday that India’s commitment to conducting free, fair, and inclusive elections underscores the resilience and adaptability of its democratic...

Shivamogga, (Karnataka) March 20 : Senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka, KS Eshwarappa, who has raised the banner of revolt against the party and is contesting...

Jaipur, March 20 : Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Wednesday played ‘Phoolon Ki Holi’ during the ‘Holi Sneh Milan’ ceremony in Jodhpur, Rajasthan on Wednesday. While playing...

Kolkata, March 20 : The poll battle at Bishnupur (SC), once a Red bastion in Bankura District of West Bengal will be an interesting watch this time, not merely for...

New Delhi, March 20 : Former Chief Minister and BJP Central Election Committee Member B.S.Yediyurappa on Wednesday said that the BJP will announce the list for five constituencies of Karnataka...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 20 : The Kollam Lok Sabha seat in Kerala will see a fight between two-time sitting MP, who is aiming for a hat-trick and film star-turned-politician Mukesh. Mukesh...

New Delhi, March 20 : The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the ED to reply on maintainability of Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal’s plea challenging the agency’s nine summonses...

Mumbai, March 20 : In a unique move, major bank unions shall initiate a ‘voter awareness’ campaign next month among the masses and question Lok Sabha candidates of all political...