The fourth phase of Lok Sabha polls in Bihar recorded the highest voter turnout of 69.2%. More women voted than men in the second, third, and fourth phases. TOI’s data excluded Srinagar due to delimitation. The turnout calculation includes all registered voters, including those using postal ballots. Source link
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday sought Election Commission‘s response to the application by an NGO, Association for Democratic Reforms, expressing apprehension about possible replacement of electronic voting machines citing the big increase in final voting percentage figures days after polling.A bench of CJI D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from ministries of health, agriculture, and the food safety standards authority of India (FSSAI) on a PIL that alleged that govt have failed to stop overuse of pesticides in cultivation of food crops and that it posed a serious health hazard for people.Arguing for petitioner Akash Vashistha,…
BJP will form govt in Odisha with a majority in assembly polls & also win all 21 Lok Sabha seats, Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan tells TOI’s Manash Pratim Gohain. Excerpts from the interview:Why is everyone in BJP – from the PM, HM, JP Nadda and you – talking about Odia Asmita on the campaign trail?That’s…
CHHAPRA (SARAN): Defying the midsummer sun, all of Khalpura, a Rajput-dominated village, poured out on the streets on Monday (May 13) to welcome Rohini Acharya, daughter of RJD chief and former CM Lalu Prasad and the party’s candidate from Saran. For most people in Bihar, she’s the “kidney girl”.One would think that a political greenhorn…
PUNE: Colonel Waibhav Kale (retd), who was killed in Gaza while on United Nations (UN) duty, was cremated with the state honour at the crematorium in Pune cantonment limit on Friday evening. Kale, 46, was killed, and another staffer from the UN Department of Safety and Security (DSS) from Jordan was injured when their UN-marked…
NEW DELHI: In a twist to the AAP MP Swati Maliwal’s assault case, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar, who has been accused by Maliwal of assaulting her, filed a counter complaint against the MP on Friday.The development came hours after AAP held a press conference on the matter and accused Swati Maliwal of…
NEW DELHI: An Air India flight, AI-807 from Delhi was forced to return to the airport due to a suspected fire in the plane’s air conditioning system. The aircraft was carrying 175 passengers at the time of the incident.According to a Delhi airport official, “The flight landed safely at 6.38 PM.”(More details to follow) Source…
NEW DELHI: Drawing a clear battle line, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday hit out at its party MP Swati Maliwal for being hand-in-glove with the BJP, while strongly refuting allegations that chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar either verbally or physically assaulted her on May 13 at the CM’s residence.In the first…
NEW DELHI: Bhavesh Bhinde, has been remanded in police custody by a Mumbai court till May 26 in the hoarding collapse incident which claimed the life of 16 people and injured 75.Bhinde, the owner of Ego Media and the main accused in the Ghatkopar billboard collapse case, was arrested by the Mumbai Police in a…
