Patna, May 7 (IANS) Polling began Wednesday in Bihar for seven Lok Sabha seats, officials said. By-polls for two assembly seats are also being held. As many as 118 candidates are in the fray for the Lok Sabha seats of Sheohar, Sitamarhi, Muzaffarpur, Maharajganj, Saran, Hajipur and Ujiarpur. Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate and former chief minister […]
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected the plea by Sahara chief Subrata Roy challenging its March 4 order sending him to judicial custody for not complying the order to return investors money by routing it through SEBI. Roy and two directors were sent to judicial custody for the failure of group’s […]
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) It was a cloudy, pleasant morning in the national capital Tuesday, a day after rain drenched the city. Light rain is expected in some areas, said the Met Office. “The sky will remain cloudy throughout the day and light rain is expected in some parts of the city,” said an […]
Shimla, May 6 (IANS) Cultivators want that opium growing should be legalised and they have found support from a BJP candidate who wonders “what is wrong” if farmers are able to meet the market demand. A section of growers has been saying cultivation of opium as an alternative crop should be allowed as the apple […]
Jaipur, May 6 (IANS) Lalit Modi is back on the Indian cricket scene as elected president of the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) after the Supreme Court (SC) appointed observers announced the poll results here Tuesday. The Supreme Court last week asked its observers, former apex court judges Justice N.M. Kasliwal and Justice S.P.Pathak to release […]
Lucknow, May 6 (IANS) The Election Commission (EC) has ordered the deployment of more security personnel for the fifth phase of polling in 15 parliamentary constituencies of Uttar Pradesh May 7, officials said Tuesday. With several incidents of booth capturing in the third and fourth rounds of balloting in the state and apprehensions about further […]
Lucknow, May 6 (IANS) Kumar Vishwas, who is Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate from Amethi, Tuesday alleged that his family had been asked to leave the constituency or face forceful eviction. According to sources, district police officials late Monday reached the rented accommodation of the AAP leader and asked his wife and other relatives along […]
Jammu, May 5 (IANS) Timely detection of a landmine by Border Security Force (BSF) troopers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district near the international border averted a major tragedy in the area Monday. BSF sources told IANS that troopers of the 9th battalion detected an anti-personnel mine at Regal in Rajpura area of Kathua Monday morning. […]
Hyderabad, May 5 (IANS) Campaigning came to an end Monday evening for the second and final phase of Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Seemandhra of Andhra Pradesh scheduled Wednesday. Loudspeakers fell silent, door-to-door canvassing by all political parties and their candidates came to a halt and the poll advertisements on television channels were taken off […]
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Should you be more careful about fellow women commuters in Delhi Metro as figures furnished by the CISF, in charge of guarding the metro, show that an overwhelming majority of pickpockets nabbed this year are women? But, if Delhi Police are to be believed, the figures provided by CISF “are grossly […]