Baghdad, At least three people were killed and 34 others injured in four car bomb explosions across Iraq’s capital Baghdad Wednesday, the country’s interior ministry said. One of the blasts early Wednesday morning hit a busy intersection in the Shiite district of Sadr City in the eastern part of Baghdad, leaving a civilian dead and […]
Bhubaneswar, Over 13 million electors will cast their ballots in the first phase of polling Thursday for 10 Lok Sabha and 70 assembly seats in Odisha. Security has been tightened, and 60 companies of paramilitary forces – each comprising about 100 troopers – have been deployed in vulnerable areas to ensure trouble-free polling, Director General […]
Los Angeles, US actor Johnny Depp, who admits that he is “an old-school guy,” transforms himself into a tech semi-god in the new sci-fi film “Transcendence,” the first project by Wally Pfister, the regular cinematography director for Christopher Nolan. “Bad things happen between technology and me all the time,” the 50-year-old actor said during the […]
Chennai, April 10 (IANS) Chennai-based independent filmmaker Lokesh, currently working on a crowd-funded gay-themed Hindi film titled “My Son Is Gay”, says the city is still “conservative” and that is why “I didn’t make the film in Tamil”. “Since it’s a gay-themed film, I don’t think everybody would accept it. Except for places like Bombay and […]
Jagdalpur, April 10 (IANS) Voting was sluggish in Bastar Lok Sabha constituency’s Maoist-dominated forested areas, but the urban centres reported brisk polling. Balloting was peaceful. A Chhattisgarh election commission official said that till 10 a.m., 18-20 percent votes had been cast and polling was peaceful. There was a healthy turnout of voters in urban areas like […]
Lucknow, April 10 (IANS) After a slow pace of voting in the morning, polling picked up across the 10 Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh Thursday, officials said. Long queues of voters formed at polling stations in all places including Muzaffarnagar, which has remained tense ever since communal riots last year left over 60 people dead. […]
New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath Thursday hoped that voting percentage will keep improving with every round of the Lok Sabha election. “We hope for better voter participation in every phase,” he told journalists here. He said Thursday’s voting in 14 states was “critical … because some of the sensitive areas in […]
Hyderabad, April 10 (IANS) Senior Congress leader and union Minister Jairam Ramesh will start campaigning for the party in Telangana Thursday. On the first day of his three-day visit, he will address a meeting of party workers at Nirmal town in Adilabad district. He will address similar meetings in Khammam and Nalgonda districts Friday and will […]
New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi voted here Thursday in the Lok Sabha election. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal also voted in separate polling centres. Sonia Gandhi was accompanied by Congress leaders Ajay Maken, Arvinder Singh Lovely and Haroon Yusuf when she reached the Nirman Bhawan […]
Gurgaon, April 10 (IANS) Voters gave the thumbs up for polling stations here in Haryana, and for the clock-work precision with which they operated Thursday. Queues began forming in polling centres since almost the time they opened at 7 a.m. In Gurgaon, long queues of voters were seen in what is called New Gurgaon, dominated by […]