In Pics: Top Leaders, Candidates, Actors Vote In Final Phase Of Lok Sabha Polls
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BJP President JP Nadda said he cast his vote to make India even stronger and self-reliant.
Top politicians, candidates and Bollywood actors voted in the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha Elections today. Polling was held in 57 constituencies across seven states and one Union Territory.
Thirteen seats in both Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, nine in West Bengal, eight in Bihar, six in Odisha, four in Himachal Pradesh, three in Jharkhand and the lone Lok Sabha seat in Chandigarh go to polls today.
At 1pm, 40% voter turnout was recorded across seven states and Chandigarh. Bihar recorded the lowest voter turnout of over 35% while Himachal Pradesh recorded the highest at 48.6%.
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath shows his inked finger after casting his vote.
The BJP, Vishnu Deo Sai said, has shown huge respect to Ambedkar, no matter who headed the government -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee or Narendra Modi.
Shyam Benegal, who burst on the scene with his first film "Ankur" in 1974, was a chronicler of India's times and politics.
A second-cousin brother of the late legend, actor-film-maker Guru Dutt, Shyam Benegal was 90 and breathed his last at a private hospital in Mumbai. He is survived by his wife Nira and their daughter Pia.
The union government has scrapped the 'no-detention policy' for classes 5 and 8 in schools governed by it allowing them to fail students who do not clear the year-end exams, according to officials.
"Adani Defence Systems & Technologies Ltd (ADSTL) has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire 85.8 per cent shareholding in Air Works India (Engineering) Private Ltd," a company statement said.
Several domestic carriers, between October and November, received hundreds of "hoax" messages or calls on their official communication channels including on social media.
Former Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's BJD has made it clear that they are not against Electronic Voting Machines, questioning instead the integrity of the election process.
Lavi Pal alias Rahul Saini was arrested after an encounter in which he was injured on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday.
Seven Indians were injured in the deadly car-ramming attack in the eastern German city of Magdeburg.
The man, identified as Zakir, gesticulated to a biker to help him, even as the truck kept accelerating, showed the 36-second clip.
All the accused were arrested in November and December after reviewing data from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center (I4C), said Priyanshu Dewan, ACP (cyber).