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Puducherry, April 9 Puducherry witnessed brisk polling on Thursday, with 72.4% of the electorate casting their votes by 3 pm, according to the Election Commission.As the NDA is striving to retain power, the opposition Congress-led alliance is pushing to wrest control from the AINRC-led front...

Kolkata, April 9 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that the BJP had deleted over 90 lakh names from voter lists during the SIR exercise to gain power in the state and asserted that her party would still win the upcoming Assembly elections.Addressing a public rally...

Asansol, April 9 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Trinamool Congress government, claiming that the ruling party-linked syndicate and mafia were looting the state's resources and also warned that all those involved would be held accountable after the...

Kolkata, April 9 Ratna Debnath, the mother of the raped and murdered doctor at RG Kar hospital and the BJP candidate from Panihati, filed her nomination papers on Thursday.She was accompanied by senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Smriti Irani and district party leaders.Speaking to...

Mumbai, April 9 Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis spoke to state Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal on Thursday and requested him to withdraw the party's candidate from the Baramati by-election.Deputy Chief Minister and NCP president Sunetra Pawar is contesting the Baramati...

Haldia, April 9 Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced six guarantees for Bengal if the BJP wins the Assembly polls and sought the ouster of the "'nirmam'" (cruel) TMC government, accusing it of "setting new parameters of development debacle and pulling the state back".Addressing a rally at...

Puducherry, April 9 Puducherry witnessed brisk polling on Thursday, with 37.06 per cent of the electorate casting their votes by 11 am.As the NDA is striving to retain power, the opposition Congress-led alliance is aiming to wrest control from the AINRC-led front in the union territory...

Guwahati, April 9 Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma cast his vote in Guwahati on Thursday.He was accompanied by his wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sarma, and their two children.Sarma, who is leading the NDA in the state and seeking a third consecutive term, is contesting from Jalukbari, a seat...

New Delhi, April 9 – Congress MP Shashi Tharoor stated on Thursday that the BJP-led NDA has "no credibility" in Kerala, describing it as a "zero-seat party," even as voting began across the state with a promising turnout."I certainly don't believe that the NDA is a zero-seat party in Kerala...

Puducherry, April 9 Puducherry witnessed brisk polling on Thursday, with 37.06 per cent of the electorate casting their votes by 11 am.As the NDA is striving to retain power, the opposition Congress-led alliance is pushing to wrest control from the AINRC-led front in the union territory...

Sivasagar, Apr 9 Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi on Thursday claimed that the people of Assam were voting to save democracy from the "fascist BJP government".Gogoi, who is seeking re-election from the Sibsagar seat, claimed that people of the state were turning up at polling booths in large...

Haldia (West Bengal), April 9 Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on Thursday, after a two-hour delay due to inclement weather, to address his first of three election rallies in West Bengal.Several parts of southern Bengal, including Kolkata, have been experiencing rain since morning...

New Delhi, April 9 BJP national president Nitin Nabin urged the people of Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry to come out in large numbers and vote for progress and development.Addressing the people of Assam, Nabin, in a post on X, said, "Your votes will be decisive, not only in ensuring the...

Kolkata, April 9 Amid the intense campaigning for the two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold three consecutive rallies in three districts on Thursday.Union Home Minister Amit Shah will also arrive in Kolkata on Thursday, with a packed campaign...

Thiruvananthapuram, April 9 – After 23 days of intense campaigning and a similarly intense period of quiet outreach, Kerala entered the final day on Thursday, with around 2.71 crore voters set to decide who will govern the state.Even before dawn, the electoral machinery was in full swing. By...

Thiruvananthapuram, April 9 Polling in all 140 Assembly constituencies in Kerala began at 7 am on Thursday.Voting commenced after mock polling was completed.People started arriving early in the morning at the 30,495 polling stations across the state to avoid the hot weather, which was...

Varanasi (UP), April 8 Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati has allegedly received death threats via text messages and voice mail, his media spokesperson said on Wednesday.Sanjay Pandey, the spokesperson, said that several threatening text messages were sent from an unknown phone number on the...

Palakkad (Kerala), April 8 Police on Wednesday registered a case against representatives of the BJP-led NDA in the Palakkad constituency, alleging that they bribed a voter ahead of the Kerala Assembly elections.The First Information Report (FIR) was registered by the Palakkad Town South police...

New Delhi, April 8 Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday that the Congress is committed to ensuring statehood for Puducherry, as it should not be run from Delhi, while appealing to the people of the Union Territory to give his party an overwhelming majority.A day before the polling for the Puducherry...

New Delhi, April 8 A day before the Assam Assembly elections, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi appealed to the people of the state on Wednesday to vote for change, asserting that the polls are not just about changing the government, but also about eradicating violence, corruption, and hatred.In a...