NEW DELHI: Phase one of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls ended on Friday, with 62.37 per cent being the total voter turnout. The voters turned up to exercise their franchise in sweltering heat in 21 states and Union territories, including the big ones like Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar and Tamil Nadu.The election, which kicked…
Reprising the old classic ‘bees saal baad’, Congress is gearing up to contest its lowest tally of seats ever in Lok Sabha elections. Announcing the fight plan on Monday, the grand old party drew parallels with 2004, when it had cut down on poll contests in favour of allies and gone on to remove the…
MUMBAI: The Mumbai police’s crime branch told the local court on Tuesday that the two arrested accused opened fire outside Bollywood superstar Salman Khan‘s house with the intention to kill him. The accused, Vicky Gupta (24) and Sagar Pal (21), both residents of Bihar, were on the run after the firing incident outside Khan’s house…
MUMBAI: Within 24 hours of the firing on Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s house, the city crime branch late Monday evening arrested two persons. The two accused were arrested from Gujarat’s Bhuj and both hail from Bihar, police said.The Unit 9 of the crime branch led by inspector Daya Nayak arrested Vikas alias Vicky Gupta and…
NEW DELHI: “Idhar udhar ki baat na karein, muddey ki baat karein Pradhanmantri,” former Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav on Friday responded to PM Modi‘s attack of consuming non-veg in the month of Sawan earlier.Yadav further said that PM Modi doesn’t talk about jobs, employment and inflation. “He can say anything he wants but public…
RAIPUR: Stepping up action in the alleged liquor scam, economic offences wing (EOW) on Wednesday arrested in Bihar former excise department special secretary Arun Pati Tripathi, an Indian Telecom Service officer on deputation to Chhattisgarh govt. He is being brought to Raipur, officials said. Tripathi, who was managing director of state marketing corporation, was granted…
NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday committed a faux pas after making an erroneous prediction that the NDA would secure “more than 4,000 seats” in the Lok Sabha, a number far exceeding the actual strength of the lower house.Kumar, who leads the JD(U) and recently rejoined the BJP-led alliance, committed the gaffe…
The NIA conducted raids in UP and Bihar to investigate a CPI (Maoist) conspiracy to expand in northern India. The group aims to revive influence in states like UP, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh. NIA seized digital devices and incriminating materials in Ballia and Kaimur. Four accused were named in a chargesheet filed…
NEW DELHI: Robust wheat procurement during this year riding on a good harvest may put more ‘rotis’ on the plates of beneficiaries covered under free foodgrain scheme—PM Garib Kalyan Ann Yojna (PMGKAY). Govt would review the mix of rice and wheat allocated to states for distribution to the 80 crore poor under the scheme depending…
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu conferred the Bharat Ratna award to five eminent personalities on Saturday, including two former Prime Ministers. The country’s highest civilian honour was awarded to former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh, agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan and two-time former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur, posthumously at…
