NEW DELHI: Google on Monday marked the ongoing exercise of India’s democratic franchise with a special Doodle celebrating the fifth phase of voting in the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. The Doodle featured an uplifted index finger marked with ink, a widely recognized symbol of voting in India, replacing Google’s iconic logo on its homepage.Upon clicking…
PM Narendra Modi expressed solidarity with the people of Iran as he said he was deeply concerned by reports regarding Iran Prez Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter flight that crashed in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. “We stand in solidarity with the Iranian people in this hour of distress, and pray for the well-being of the president and…
LUCKNOW: A viral video showing the 17-year-old son of a gram pradhan purportedly voting eight times at a polling station in UP’s Farrukhabad constituency on May 13 led the authorities to file an FIR and detain him Sunday, initiate disciplinary proceedings against officials managing the booth, and recommend a repoll.SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, Wayanad MP…
KOLKATA/PURULIA/KHARAGPUR: A fortnight after the first of the purported Sandeshkhali videos emerged to give Trinamool ammo to accuse BJP of engineering the unrest there, PM Modi broke his silence on the row Sunday by accusing CM Mamata Banerjee‘s party of “questioning the character of the women of Sandeshkhali to save their (Sheikh) Shahjahan“. Modi also…
JAMMU: Security forces launched Sunday a widespread search near the India-Pakistan border in Kathua district of J&K to track down three armed men spotted in the hilly and wooded terrain late Saturday night, raising suspicion that those could be Pakistani terrorists on the run following a fatal ambush on a two-truck IAF convoy in Poonch…
NEW DELHI: A government school teacher in Bihar, Harendra Rajak, was sent to jail for allegedly telling children in his class “nobody should vote for Modi“. A written complaint was filed against him by family members of several students. Muzaffarpur SSP Rakesh Kumar said that Rajak was arrested for violating the election model code of…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday criticised Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal over the Sandeshkhali issue during a rally in Purulia. PM Modi alleged that TMC members were questioning the character of the women of Sandeshkhali to protect a local strongman, Shahjahan Sheikh.He said that the TMC, which once championed the slogan…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police, late Saturday evening, submitted a remand paper seeking seven days of custody for Bibhav Kumar, an aide to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in connection with the alleged assault on AAP Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal. Metropolitan Magistrate Gaurav Goyal, who presided over the hearing, granted five-day police custody based…
NEW DELHI: Signalling that Congress and AAP will be putting up a united front to strongly counter BJP, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday at a public meeting here said that on May 25 when Delhi goes to polls he will be voting for AAP and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will be voting for Congress. This assertion…
HAJIPUR: At the height of a bitter political rivalry between the two Paswans, BJP sided with Chirag, whose Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) was allotted five seats for LS elections under a seat-sharing arrangement, while the rival LJP faction led by his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, then a Union minister, was allotted none.Now that Chirag…
