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TRS polling agent arrested for clicking photo inside EVM strong room in Telangana

A local Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader Nayakapu Venkatesh was on Saturday arrested for unauthorisedly clicking a picture inside an EVM strong room in Telangana's Bogaram area. A case has been registered against him and he would be sent to judicial remand. Malkajgiri:Telangana Rashtra S

"Did you vote for me?": Gujarat Minister to women facing water woes

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat water supply minister Kunvarji Bavaliya was caught on camera Saturday telling a group of women who complained about drinking water woes in their village that they should have voted for him. After the video, shot on mobile camera, went viral, the minister said the question came

Hyderabad professor held for demanding bribe from students

Hyderabad: Sleuths of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday apprehended a professor of the state-run Osmania Medical College here for allegedly demanding a bribe from students to pass them in the examination. Based on a complaint lodged by students, a case was registered and on Thursday, s

Fellow BJP MP Hema Malini hits out at Maneka Gandhi over 'vote for me or else…' remark on Muslims

BJP MP Hema Malini lashed out at Union Minister Maneka Gandhi over her recent comment on Muslim voters. “On triple talaq issue many minority community women support us but even if they don't, and who did not. This kind of feeling doesn't come to me. Everybody is different,” the veteran actor-turn

Congress accuses Smriti Irani of ‘falsifying’ educational records

The Congress on Friday called Union Minister and BJP candidate from the Amethi Lok Sabha seat Smriti Irani a “serial liar”, and said that she should be disqualified from contesting the polls. The party alleged that she had falsified records of her educational qualification and submitted contradictor

Will commit suicide before PM Modi if Citizenship Bill is implemented, says BJP candidate; demands amendment

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from the Shillong parliamentary seat Sanbor Shullai said that he will commit suicide before PM Narendra Modi but will not let Citizenship (Amendment) Bill to be implemented in Meghalaya and other northeastern states and added that the Bill needs to be amen

AP CM Naidu wants repoll in some booths, writes to Election Commission

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday expressed his unhappiness over Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) not functioning at several polling booths in the state. He wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner saying that EVMs were not working in 30% of the polling

Laser, possibly from sniper gun, aimed at Rahul Gandhi in Amethi: Congress

The Congress has alleged breach in party president Rahul Gandhi’s security in Uttar Pradesh during his visit to Amethi in Uttar Pradesh to file his nominations this week. In a letter addressed to Home Minister Rajnath Singh, three senior Congress leaders have asked the centre to “probe and neutraliz

PM Modi biopic stopped by election commission till end of elections

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has stopped the release of "PM Narendra Modi", a biopic on the Prime Minister, till the end of national elections on May 19. The commission said that any biopic "which has the potential to disturb the level playing field during the elections should not be displayed

Don't worry Modiji, Rafale deal probe a certainty now: Congress

Opposition parties today praised the Supreme Court's decision allowing leaked documents to be relied upon by petitioners seeking review of its Rafale judgement, saying the Modi government now has "no official secrets act" to hide behind and a probe into the "scam" will take place. In a setback to

Accused of selling beef, Assam muslim man allegedly forced to eat pork

Assam: A Muslim man was abused and heckled for allegedly selling beef in Assam's Biswanath district on Sunday. Police detained one person after a video of the the man on his knees in deep slush, begging to let him go, was widely shared on social media. Shaukat Ali, 68, was beaten on the road and

RSS leader shot at by suspected militants in J&K’s Kishtwar, personal security officer killed

Suspected militants on Tuesday shot at and wounded an RSS leader, Chandrakant Singh, and killed his personal security officer in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar. The PSO of the RSS leader was a police constable. Curfew has been imposed in the area following the attack and security forces have lau

Gurugram: Hindu Sena members held for forcefully shutting over 250 meat shops during navratri

Gurugram: In a case reported, Hindu Sena members were held for forcefully shutting meat shops in the view of the Navratri festival. The police confirmed the incident on Sunday. According to a report by the news agency PTI, the incident was captured in CCTV footage, where the accused were seen pul

Delhi Police arrests two SC officials for allegedly posting wrong order in Anil Ambani-Ericsson case

Delhi Police Monday arrested two officials of the Supreme Court for allegedly posting an order on the court’s website that said Reliance Communications chief Anil Ambani’s presence in the case had been dispensed with, instead of stating that it had not been dispensed with. The arrested men identi

Plea filed in SC to bring political parties under RTI

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to declare all registered and recognized political parties as “public authority” under the Right to Information Act. The plea, filed by BJP leader and advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, said, “As per section 29C of the Representation of Pe

After losing 32 elections, 84-year-old Odisha man preps to fight again

ODISHA: Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, Assembly. Shyam Babu Subudhi from Odisha's Berhampu has contested them all as an independent since 1962. Failure, however, hasn't been a deterrence. In fact, he lost 32 times. Mr Subudhi is now once again eyeing a win in the national elections that will start on April

Congress asks EC to disqualify Amit Shah from contesting Lok Sabha elections for filing 'false affidavit'

New Delhi: Accusing the BJP president Amit Shah of filing a false affidavit of his income declaration, the Congress party on Friday asked the Election Commission to disqualify him from contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Gandhinagar. Demanding action against Shah for allegedly not disclosing

UPSC toppers Kanishak Kataria, Akshat Jain and Junaid Ahmad 'surprised' with results, credit family for success

Kanishak Kataria, Akshat Jain, and Junaid Ahmad, the top rankers of this year`s Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination, expressed gratitude to their respective families while confessing that they were taken aback by their achievements. Speaking to ANI, Kanishak, who hails from Rajasthan