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Raipur, Apr 10: Of the 1,797 booths in Bastar, 1,407 booths have been marked as ‘critical’ and all steps have been taken to ensure free and fair polling there. Naxals opened fire on security forces near ten polling booths in Chhattisgarh’s Maoist-hit Bastar Parliamentary seat, where around 30 per cent of the electorate cast their votes till noon. Besides, a huge haul of explosives, including 15

Ranchi, Apr 10: An estimated 14 per cent voters exercised their franchise till 10 a.m. in four Lok Sabha seats of Jharkhand where Maoists exploded a series of landmines before polling began. Barring an incident of a voter attacking a polling official with a knife in Lohardaga, polling in Palamau (SC), Chatra, Koderma and Lohardaga (ST) seats is going on peacefully, police said. Hours before

New Delhi, Apr 10: Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and her husband Robert Vadra voted here Thursday in the Lok Sabha election. Priyanka was casually dressed in a brown kurta, with a white salwar, while Vadra wore pink trousers with a black blazer, which instantly started trending on twitter. Someone tweeted: "Robert Vadra goes to vote in pink pants! Where is the

Ranchi, April 10: A constable allegedly shot dead three policeman in Jharkhand's Gumla district, police said Thursday. Vikas Tiwari, a constable with the India Reserve Battalion (IRB), had a heated argument with his colleagues on some issues Wednesday night. He picked his automatic rifle and shot three policemen dead - assistant sub-inspector Ratan Kumar Kushwaha, head constable Shambhu Kumar and

Patna, Apr 10: Polling for six Lok Sabha seats in Bihar today started under the shadow of violence as Maoists killed two CRPF jawans and injured seven others when they were on their way to polling stations of Jamui constituency in Munger district. Deputy Superintendent of Police, Khargpur, Ranjan Kumar said that the security personnel belonging to 131 CRPF battalion were travelling in two jeeps to

New Delhi, Apr 10: Polling began today for the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in the country's capital where BJP, Congress and newbie AAP are engaged in a three-cornered electoral battle. The voting began at 7 AM at over 11,500 polling stations out of which 327 have been declared critical and 90 hyper critical. A total of 1.27 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise which include

New Delhi, Apr 9: The stage is now set for the first substantial round of polling in the Lok Sabha elections tomorrow involving nearly 11 crore voters in 92 seats spread across 11 states, including Delhi and the national capital region and the riot-hit Muzaffarnagar. This will be the third round in the nine-phased elections which began on April 7 and will conclude on May 12. Tomorrow's round will

New Delhi, Apr 9: The Election Commission on Wednesday sought report from UP poll authorities on controversial remarks made by Azam Khan. The controversial Samajwadi Party leader and UP minister Azam Khan on Wednesday took a defiant stand over his ‘Kargil remarks’ as he said that he has said nothing wrong and that his “statement on the Kargil should be welcomed”. Talking to the reporters, Khan

Raipur, Apr 9: Launching a frontal attack ahead of polls in Chhattisgarh, Naxals on Wednesday killed two commandos of CRPF’s CoBRA battalion and injured five other troopers in ambush attacks in two districts of the state. In the first incident that occurred in Sukma district of the state, Naxals opened heavy fire on a patrol of the specialised anti-Naxal operations force CoBRA that was coming back

Itanagar, Apr 9: Balloting in simultaneous elections to Arunachal Pradesh's two Lok Sabha seats and the state assembly was sluggish in the first three hours, with reports of some political workers snatching voting machines. "An estimated 11% electorate cast their votes till 10 am for the two Lok Sabha seats - Arunachal West and Arunachal East - and 49 out of the 60 assembly seats. We expect the