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In Jammu and Kashmir, in an unprecedented move to ensure inclusive participation in the electoral process, the District Election Authorities of frontier district Poonch have commenced home voting for 1100 voters across the district.105 dedicated teams have been deployed across the district to facilitate this process, which are tasked with reaching out to the voters

In Uttar Pradesh, polling parties are reaching at the polling booths of the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies where elections will be held tomorrow.   These 14 seats are spread over Oadh and Bundelkhand areas of Uttar Pradesh. These are Raebareli, Amethi, Lucknow, Mohanlalganj, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Jhansi, Banda, Fatehpur, Kaushambhi, Faizabad, Barabanki, Kaiserganj and Gonda. In

All arrangements are in place for the fifth phase of polling tomorrow. In this phase, voting will be held in 49 Lok Sabha constituencies spread over six States and two Union Territories. 14 seats of Uttar Pradesh, 13 seats of Maharashtra, seven seats of West Bengal, five seats each of Odisha and Bihar, three seats

In Maharashtra, a large hoarding collapsed injuring three men and a horse due to heavy rain yesterday, and damaging two vehicles near Kavdipat Bridge in Loni Kalbhor, 30 kms from Pune. Two of the injured were discharged after receiving treatment, while condition of the third is reported stable.   Police said, the hoarding collapsed due

In Jammu and Kashmir, a former sarpanch was killed while a tourist couple from Jaipur was injured yesterday in two separate terror attacks in Shopian and Anantnag districts. In the first incident, terrorists opened fire at a former sarpanch Aijaz Sheikh, in Shopian’s Hirpora area who later succumbed to injuries at a hospital. In another

Heavy rain continues to lash across Kerala. The Meteorological department has predicted heavy rains to continue till Tuesday.   Red alert is issued in Pathanamthitta, Kottayam and Idukki districts for today and tomorrow; orange alert in Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alappuzha and Ernakulam districts; and yellow alert in Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode and Wayanad districts. Quarrying and

In Maharashtra, all arrangements are in place for the polling in 13 constituencies of the state namely Dhule, Dindori, Nashik, Palghar, Bhiwandi, Kalyan, Thane and six parliamentary constituencies in Mumbai. A total of 264 candidates are in the fray for the fifth and final phase of Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra. Voting will take place

A District Court in Delhi has sent Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s close aide, Bibhav Kumar, to five-day police custody after he was arrested in connection with AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal’s assault case.   Bibhav Kumar was produced before the Tis Hazari court late on last night. Metropolitan Magistrate Gaurav Goyal remanded Kumar to

In Manipur, unknown armed miscreants shot at three labourers of a construction company, as one among them succumbed to bullet injury.   According to the Police report, the incident occurred last night at Naoremthong area under Lamphel Police Station of Imphal West district. Armed miscreants dragged out the three labourers and shot them on the

Senior BJP leader and BJP national president, Jagat Prakash Nadda emphasized that a strong government has set new benchmarks for development over the past 10 years under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership. He addressed at Fatehpur and the historic Chaugan Ground in Chamba under the Kangra parliamentary seat, urging people to vote for the party’s