Ranchi, April 17 (IANS) Jharkhand witnessed around 14 percent polling in the first two hours for six Lok Sabha seats Thursday amid a boycott call given by Maoist guerrillas. The highest 18 percent polling was registered in Jamshedpur, while the lowest voter turnout was 12 percent in Khuti constituency. The six seats where polling is taking […]
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) Admiral R.K. Dhowan, a navigation and direction specialist, was Thursday named the new chief of the Indian Navy. He succeeds Admiral D.K. Joshi, who resigned in February following a string of accidents of submarines. Commissioned in the navy Jan 1, 1975, Admiral Dhowan is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy […]
Bhopal, April 17 (IANS) Some voters turned up early to cast their ballot for the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh Thursday, officials said. The state recorded 11.46 percent voting during the morning hours. Voters at nine polling stations decided to boycott over some local issues, including land acquisition. Officials tried to persuade them to […]
Lucknow, April 16 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Narayan Dutt Tiwari will not contest from Uttarakhand’s Nainital Lok Sabha constituency seat, his close aides said Wednesday. Sources said the former chief minister of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh wanted to contest one last time and had also pleaded with the party leadership to field his son Rohit Shekhar […]
Politics has been integral to the Indian business milieu as building political connections is part of doing business in the country. But it is for the first time some of India’s corporate tycoons are being named openly in a charged election campaign and their close links have become part of the popular conversation, stuff of […]
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Delhiites woke up to light drizzle Wednesday morning and the Met Office has forecast a cloudy day with spells of rain. “The sky will remain cloudy and some parts of the city will experience light rain and thundershower later in the day,” said an official of the India Meteorological Department. The […]
Dubai, April 16 (IANS) The Middle East is more dependent than ever on Asia’s energy demand, but a one-way road to ever rising revenues is not always expected for the oil-rich region, market, an expert said Tuesday. Asia’s share of Middle Eastern exports grew from 57 percent in 1999 to 78 percent in 2011, as Asian […]
New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal left Monday evening by train for Varanasi to contest against BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, with hundreds of supporters wishing him the best. Kejriwal boarded the Shiv Ganga Express along with his parents and select party activists as well as a couple of Delhi Police personnel. […]
Asansol (West Bengal), April 14 (IANS) He left a lucrative job at a multinational bank to pursue his first love – singing. And after ruling the charts with his mesmerising voice, Babul Supriyo, who is the BJP’a Lok Sabha candidate from West Bengal’s Asansol, is now determined to repay his admirers. The Bollywood singer who has […]
Hyderabad, April 14 (IANS) YSR Congress party’s president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy will contest the assembly election from Pulivendula while his mother and honorary president Y.S. Vijayamma will fight for the Lok Sabha from Visakhapatnam. Jaganmohan Reddy’s uncle and cousin also figure in the list of candidates announced by the party for parliamentary elections in Seemandhra or […]