Apart from West Bengal, the bypolls will also be held in Uttar Pradesh and all other states where MLA posts have become vacant after incumbent lawmakers contested in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.
The incessant rainfall has not just impacted Nepal but caused landslide in India's Sikkim also. Several people were reported dead while many tourists are stranded.
Local media reports said that a female Indian student, who waded out from the beach on the river Volkhov, got into trouble and four of her companions tried to save her.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on his first foreign visit in his third term and attended G7 Summit in Italy on the invitation of his counterpart Giorgia Meloni. He met several world leaders on the sidelines of the Summit.
Railway officials said the technical fault occurred in the signalling system on the UP (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus-bound) fast line around 7 am, due to which some local trains were held up for about an hour.
A NEET-UG cheating racket has been busted in Gujarat's Godhra involving three people including a person who runs coaching centre, a teacher and one another. As per reports, the accused had received lakhs of rupees from students to fill their answer sheets.
Sunetra Pawar lost against sister-in-law and daughter of Sharad Pawar, Supriya Sule from Baramati parliamentary constituency in Maharashtra by a margin of over 1.5 lakh votes.
Pema Khandu, whose political career intensed after his father's death, has become Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh for the third time consecutive time after the BJP comfortably won the Assembly election with 45 seats in a House of 60.
All the four gates of the Jagannath temple in Puri were closed since the Covid pandemic. The newly formed Odisha government will also set up a corpus fund for immediate requirement of the 12th-century shrine.
The Education Ministry had last week set up a four-member panel to review the grace marks awarded to 1,563 students to compensate them for loss of time due to delay in starting examination at certain centres.
BJP's Pema Khandu took take oath for the third consecutive time as the chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday. Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP chief JP Nadda among other senior party leaders graced the occassion.
A Chandigarh police official said they were searching the premises of the mental health institute but nothing has been found so far. Besides police personnel, bomb disposal squad and fire department officials have been deputed at the site.
Chandrababu Naidu has become the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh for the fourth time in a grand ceremony graced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and big leaders after Telugu Desam Party's mamoth victory in 2024 Assembly elections, held simultaneously with Lok Sabha polls.
Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha has approved an ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh each for the next of kin of those killed in the terror attack on a bus in Reasi district, an official spokesman said.
The BJP stormed to power in Odisha, bagging 78 of the 147 assembly seats, bringing an end to the 24-year rule of the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD. The swearing-in ceremony of the new government is scheduled to be held today at Janata Maidan in Bhubaneswar.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers Amit Shah, JP Nadda and Nitin Gadkari, former Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, NCP leader Praful Patel and several other leaders attended the oath-taking ceremony.
The fire broke out at around 10 pm on Tuesday night. Several fire engines were rushed to the spot to douse the flames. Fire incidents have witnessed a huge rise in the past few weeks amid a severe heatwaves.
Chandrababu Naidu became Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister for the first time in 1995. His second and third stint started in 1999 and 2014. In 2019, he lost to YSRCP's Jagan Mohan Reddy but returned to power with a brut majority in 2024 in alliance with JSP and BJP.
The terror attack in Doda took place when the security forces were conducting a massive operation to flush out holed-up terrorists who had attacked a village near the International Border (IB) in Kathua district on Tuesday evening and injured a civilian.
Speaking on the recently concluded Lok Sabha election results, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said that negative politics has ended and the people's issues and concerns have triumphed.
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