KOLKATA: An airline boarding pass bearing the name “Celesty Rahman” and the arrest of a butcher allegedly hired to mutilate the body of murdered Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar on Friday gave investigators clues to a sinister plot that possibly involved honey-trapping the victim into visiting an apartment in Kolkata’s New Town on May 13…
Less than 24 hours before the sixth phase of polls, West Bengal police seized Rs 24 lakh cash from the car of a BJP functionary in West Midnapore on Friday. Prasanta Bera, who had contested 2021 assembly polls from Daspur in West Midnapore, was detained after he failed to provide any valid document for carrying…
NEW DELHI: A day before all 7 Lok Sabha seats of Delhi go to the polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday levelled serious allegations against Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, stating that he has ordered police to slow down voting in areas that have a large number of INDIA bloc supporters. “Information has been…
NEW DELHI: As the Supreme Court refused to direct the Election Commission of India (EC) to release voter turnout of each polling station on its website during Lok Sabha elections, it also said the poll body’s idea to launch voter turnout app was an “aa bail mujhe maar” (Come bull, hit me) move. The Hindi…
NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court on Friday ordered a stay on the ongoing probe against a Raj Bhavan staff for wrongfully restraining a women who accused West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose of molestation.A single bench of justice Amrita Sinha ordered a temporary stay on the investigation till June 17.The order comes after Officer…
NEW DELHI: Two officials from the Yerawada police station in Pune have been suspended on Friday for neglecting their duties related to the Porsche car crash incident, officials said. The crash, which involved a minor driving the vehicle resulted in the death of two software professionals on May 19 in the Kalyani Nagar area of…
NEW DELHI: Delhi court on Friday convicted Medha Patkar leader of Narmada Bachao Andolan leader in defamation case filed by Delhi LG VK Saxena. The verdict was delivered by Metropolitan Magistrate Raghav Sharma.According to the provisions of the law, Patkar could face a prison sentence of up to two years, a monetary fine, or both…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday refuted the allegations of shielding Janata Dal Secular MP Prajwal Revanna and revealed that the ministry of external affairs received a request to impound the passport of Revanna from the Karnataka government only on May 21.“To impound a passport is governed by an act called the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain plea by an NGO to direct the Election Commission to upload voter turnout data for each polling station on its website during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. The vacation bench, comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma, stated that it would be challenging for…
After five rounds of polling, an analysis of turnout shows that of the 409 seats where data can be compared with 2019, nearly two-thirds, or 258, have witnessed a lower percentage turnout this year and 88 (more than one in five) have seen even the absolute number of votes drop from five years ago.Seats with…
