Thane (Maharashtra), April 24 (IANS) A woman returning officer died while on election duty Thursday at a polling station in Thane. According to an election department official, 35-year-old Vaishali Bhave was on duty at the Khoppat polling station when she complained of chest pain around 1.30 p.m. She was rushed to the Thane Civil Hospital where […]
Varanasi, April 24 (IANS) BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Thursday filed his nomination papers for the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency, and paid tribute to the “Ganga Yamuna tehzeeb (composite culture)” of the city. Accompanied by close aide Amit Shah, and party leaders Ravi Shankar Prasad and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Modi promised to improve the lot […]
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday entrusted the administration of the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala to a five-member committee headed by the district judge of Thiruvananthapuram. The bench of Justice R.M. Lodha and Justice A.K. Patnaik said former comptroller and auditor general (CAG) Vinod Rai would undertake the audit of the temple […]
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) All India Football Federation (AIFF) Thursday launched the ‘AIFF Academy Certification’ which aims to set a standard of youth development in the country through a certification model. AIFF has developed a set of criteria on which the academies will be assessed and certified and they will be given a rating as […]
Dhaka, April 24 (IANS) The Bangladesh government has revoked the licences of eight Haj agencies and withheld the licences of 43 others for alleged irregularities. Action has been taken against 208 agencies after a probe committee formed by the country’s ministry of religious affairs found that they were responsible for irregularities, Chowdhury Md. Babul Hassan, secretary […]
Kolkata, April 24 (IANS) Notwithstanding the oppressive heat, enthusiastic voters stood in long queues, as around 70 percent of the electorate exercised their franchise by Thursday afternoon in six Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal. The authorities said the polling process in the second phase of elections in the state – after four constituencies voted a […]
Rome, April 24 (IANS) Italy opened a new phase Thursday by replacing its special envoy Staffan de Mistura, handling the case of its two marines held in India, and sending its ambassador back to New Delhi to help steer the case towards arbitration. Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone were arrested for killing two Indian fishermen off […]
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Barring the Kashmir Valley, millions voted Thursday across a dozen states in India to elect 117 MPs even as the BJP’s prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi filed his nomination in Varanasi, turning the Hindu holy city into a sea of saffron. About 40 percent of the 180 million eligible to vote […]
Guwahati, April 24 (IANS) A mob attacked a polling station in Assam’s Kokrajhar district killing a policeman even as over 50 percent balloting was recorded in the last six Lok Sabha constituencies in the state that went to the polls Thursday. Election officials said 52.78 percent polling was recorded till 1 p.m. in Guwahati, Barpeta, Dhubri, […]
Amethi, April 24 (IANS) Amethi, seen as the Gandhi family’s pocket borough, is seething with anger. This Lok Sabha constituency in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh has since 1977 never been as angry with a Gandhi as it is with Rahul, the scion of the family and the incumbent MP. Amethi voted his father Rajiv […]