SHIMLA: The Himachal assembly speaker accepted on Monday the resignation of three independent MLAs, a day before the declaration of results for the state’s four LS seats and 6 assembly bypolls.These three, along with six Cong MLAs, had voted for the BJP candidate in RS polls. Speaker K S Pathania had disqualified the six rebels…
SHIMLA: The Himachal assembly speaker accepted on Monday the resignation of three independent MLAs, a day before the declaration of results for the state’s four LS seats and 6 assembly bypolls.These three, along with six Cong MLAs, had voted for the BJP candidate in RS polls. Speaker K S Pathania had disqualified the six rebels…
NEW DELHI: A day after Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal asserted that all exit polls that predicted a third term for BJP-led NDA were “fake”, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Monday demanded a ban on exit polls, claiming they have been proven wrong several times.Singh highlighted reports from different states to claim that…
BHUBANESWAR/ JAIPUR: The countrywide toll of suspected heatstroke deaths touched 219 with Odisha reporting six fresh casualties and Rajasthan two in the last 24 hours even as the southwest monsoon advanced to some more parts of south India on Monday.The toll so far in Odisha has reached 147, though only 30 are confirmed sunstroke casualties,…
BHUBANESWAR: An exit poll by Times Now-ETG predicted on Monday a near-repeat of the 2019 landslide for Naveen Patnaik’s BJD in the Odisha assembly polls, differing from other projections that show the party either neck and neck with challenger BJP or not ahead by much.BJD is likely to win 100 to 115 seats in the…
Bengaluru: Intense thundershowers lit up the skies over Bengaluru on Sunday evening and the downpour broke a 133-year-old record in the state capital. The city received 111.6mm of rain in 24 hours till 8am on Monday, making it the city’s wettest day in June till date.The record for the highest single-day rainfall for the month…
NEW DELHI: “We are very hopeful that our results will be completely opposite of what exit polls are showing,” Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi said on Monday when asked about her expectations. Gandhi made the remarks after attending an event here to pay tribute to DMK stalwart M Karunanidhi on his 100th birth anniversary.On…
NAGPUR: A sessions court in Maharashtra’s Nagpur pronounced on Monday triple death sentences to a man convicted on three counts of abduction, rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in 2019.Additional sessions judge S R Padwal’s verdict against Sanjay Puri under Sections 302 (murder) and 376AB (rape of a minor) of IPC and Section 6…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Monday rejected the INDIA bloc’s demand to revert to the old system of counting of postal ballots prior to the last round of EVM counting, saying that counting rules could not be changed mid-course.As per rules, postal ballot counting must start first. After half an hour, EVM counting can start….
NEW DELHI: Hours before the announcement of the Lok Sabha election 2024 results, Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has suggested new careers for Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Shashi Tharoor, his rival in Thiruvananthapuram seat. On Congress rejecting the exit poll results which predict a comfortable majority for the BJP-led NDA, “The Congress party has many…
