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Six states and two UTs vote in fifth phaseBihar: 5 seatsJammu and Kashmir: 1 seatJharkhand: 3 seatsLadakh: 1 seatMaharashtra: 13 seatsOdisha: 5 seatsUttar Pradesh: 14 seatsWest Bengal: 7 seatsThe fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections takes place today, with 49 constituencies from six states and two union territories voting, including India's […]

LUCKNOW: Taking cognizance of an incident related to alleged fake voting flagged by Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, a formal first information report (FIR) was lodged in Farrukhabad on Sunday.A video of the incident had gone viral on social media. In the video, a youth is seen casting his vote eight times by pressing a button in front of BJP […]

NEW DELHI: The Delhi BJP on Sunday claimed Chief Minister Kejriwal wanted to send a senior lawyer to the Rajya Sabha and the alleged assault on Swati Maliwal, an AAP member of the Upper House, was connected to it.The BJP's Delhi unit chief Virendra Sachdeva also asked how AAP came to the conclusion about the saffron party's involvement in the […]

NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday claimed the BJP is rattled since the INDIA bloc would come to power at the Centre after Lok Sabha polls and the AAP, a constituent of the alliance, would ensure full statehood for the national capital.Addressing a street meeting in Kalkaji in support of the party's South Delhi Lok Sabha […]

NEW DELHI: Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Sunday wrote to the Election Commission alleging poll code violations by BJP leaders, and claimed more and more leaders of the saffron party are now "resorting to inciting hatred using anti-Muslim tropes".Yechury, in a post on X, shared a copy of his complaint to […]

HAMIRPUR: The nation will be doomed and become a "colony of foreign forces" if the Congress-led INDIA bloc is allowed to rule, Union Minister Anurag Thakur said on Sunday.He addressed several election meetings in the Hamirpur parliamentary constituency."The nation will be doomed and become a colony of foreign forces who are busy destabilising the […]

PRAYAGRAJ/JAUNPUR: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) belongs to India and "we will take it back".Addressing rallies in Prayagraj and Jaunpur districts of Uttar Pradesh to seek votes for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates, he also said "we need a strong prime minister who can give a […]

AYODHYA: As Ayodhya gears up to vote for the first time after the Ram temple consecration, Muslim voters in the pilgrim town say "mandir-masjid" (temple-mosque) is not an issue for them and employment and development are their primary concerns.Some, including Iqbal Ansari, who was a litigant in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case, give the BJP […]

LUCKNOW: Voting for the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, which will decide the fate of five Union ministers, including Rajnath Singh and Smriti Irani, and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, will be held on Monday.The seats going to polls in the fifth phase are Mohanlalganj (SC), Rae Bareli, Amethi, Jalaun (SC), Jhansi, Hamirpur, […]

KOLKATA: A day after he snubbed West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for questioning TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee's loyalty to the INDIA bloc, several posters and hoardings of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge were defaced with ink in front of the party's state headquarters here on Sunday.Unidentified persons also wrote 'agent of […]