KOLKATA: An angry mob entered a polling station at booth numbers 40 and 41 in Kultali, South 24 Parganas of West Bengal, and threw an EVM machine into a pond on Saturday morning during the Lok Sabha elections, news agency PTI reported.The incident occurred after some polling agents were denied permission to be present inside…
NEW DELHI: The Congress has decided not to participate in Lok Sabha election exit poll debates on the television channels which are scheduled for Saturday. Announcing the decision Congress leader Pawan Khera on Friday said the party does not wish to “indulge in speculation and slugfest for TRP”.Taking to X, Khera announced party’s decision and…
Stock market today: BSE Sensex and Nifty50, the Indian equity benchmark indices, surged in trade on Friday. While BSE Sensex moved up over 300 points, Nifty50 was above 22,550. At 9:18 AM, BSE Sensex was trading at 74,234.07, up 348 points or 0.47%. Nifty50 was at 22,587.65, up 99 points or 0.44%.The equity markets continued…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s whirlwind Lok Sabha election campaign, which included a total of 206 public outreach programmes – some laced with a lot of acrimony and aggression, ended on Thursday with a rally in Punjab’s Hoshiyarpur. The Prime Minister also gave a total of 80 media interviews, averaging more than one daily…
NEW DELHI: Upping the ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday accused the leader of using divisive language during the Lok Sabha Elections campaign. Kharge alleged that PM Modi mentioned ‘mandir-masjid‘ and other divisive topics 421 times during his election campaign, despite the Election Commission’s guidelines prohibiting appeals for votes…
Stock market today: Indian equity benchmark indices, BSE Sensex and Nifty50, dipped in opening trade on Thursday. While BSE Sensex dropped over 200 points, Nifty50 was near 22,650. At 9:22 AM, BSE Sensex was trading at 74,398.62, down 104 points or 0.14%. Nifty50 was at 22,675.70, down 29 points or 0.13%.The Indian equity markets experienced…
NEW DELHI: BJP leader Ravi Kishan on Tuesday called Congress leader Shashi Tharoor “angrez aadmi” for suggesting that the BJP would struggle to exceed 300 seats in the Lok Sabha elections.Responding to Tharoor’s allegations, BJP MP from Gorakhpur said, “Shashi Tharoor is ‘angrez aadmi’. We go to Manali and Shimla on vacations; they come to…
NEW DELHI: The Anantnag-Rajouri parliamentary constituency has set a new record, with a voter turnout of 51.35 per cent as of 5 pm, the highest in the past 35 years, according to the Election Commission of India. This achievement follows the record-breaking voter turnouts in Srinagar and Baramulla, making all three parliamentary constituencies in the…
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi shared a selfie showing their inked fingers after casting their votes in the New Delhi constituency during the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections on Saturday. They arrived at the polling station at Nirman Bhawan around 9:30 am. After casting his vote in Delhi,…
PATNA: Voting began for eight Lok Sabha seats in Bihar amid tight security on Saturday morning, an official from the office of the state’s chief electoral officer (CEO) said.The polling began at 7 am in Valmikinagar, Pashchim Champaran, Purvi Champaran, Sheohar, Siwan, Gopalganj, Maharajganj and Vaishali constituencies. It would continue till 6 pm, he said.Over…
