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Bihar goes to polls in 1st Phase of General Elections-2019. Four Parliamentary Constituencies (PCs) of Aurangabad, Gaya, Nawada and Jamui will vote on 11th April. Thirty-six more Lok Sabha seats will be contested in 6 more Phases. 7440324 voters are eligible to vote in Phase 1, with 3894024 males, 3546001 females and 299 voters in Third Gender category. 44 candidates ...

Two drug peddlers were arrested and 210 kgs of poppy was recovered from them in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, police said Friday. Acting on a tip-off, a Punjab-bound truck was intercepted on the link road at Sallan in Hiranagar and the poppy, concealed in six bags, was recovered, they said. The truck driver Jorawar Singh and his helper Dheeraj ...

A civil car exploded near a CRPF convoy in Banihal town of Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Saturday, officials said, adding that there were no casualties among the security personnel. The incident occurred around 10.30 am, triggering memories of the February 14 vehicle-borne suicide attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy in Pulwama in Kashmir that claimed ...

A soldier was killed Sunday when Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire by targeting forward posts and villages with heavy caliber weapons and rockets along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch and Rajouri districts, a defence spokesperson said. The Indian Army retaliated in strong measure, inflicting adequate damage and casualties to Pakistani troops, Jammu-based Public Relations Officer (defence) ...

The three NDA constituents in Bihar — BJP, JD(U) and LJP — Sunday announced the names of candidates for the 40 Lok Sabha constituencies for the coming general elections. As per the announcement made at a joint press conference of the three parties here, the BJP and the JD(U) will contest 17 seats each and the LJP in six. An ...

The peak power demand in the national capital is likely to cross the 7,400 MW mark this summer, a power discom spokesperson said on Friday. The peak power demand last summer breached the 7,000 MW mark for the first time and reached 7,016 MW in July 2018. Noting that Delhi’s peak power demand is substantially higher than that of other ...

A man was arrested and arms and ammunition, including grenades, were seized by security forces from a militant hideout in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, police said Wednesday. “On credible input, a joint party of police and other security forces busted a hideout in a residential house at Kulgam district’s Yaripora area, and recovered arms and ammunition, including grenades and ...

A woman in Delhi, Sonia gave one lakh rupees ransom to goons in return for killing her parents. Sonia and her lover Prince had killed the couple with the help of the goons of them and threw dead bodies in a briefcase. Sonia and Prince are currently lodged in Tihar jail and the police are searching for absconding accused. Senior ...

The mastermind of the February 14 Pulwama terror attack, in which 40 CRPF personnel had died, has been killed in an encounter in south Kashmir’s Tral area, officials said Monday. Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist Mudasir Ahmed Khan alias ‘Mohd Bhai’ was among two militants killed in the encounter in Tral’s Pinglish area in Pulwama district, they said. The encounter lasted past ...

Bihar will witness a seven-phase polling for its 40 Lok Sabha seats, state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) H R Srinivasan said Sunday. The polls will start with the first phase on April 11 and will end on May 19 when the seventh and last phase will be held. The decision to carry out elections in seven phases has been made ...