Shashwat Bhandari

PM Modi will be contesting from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat for the third time in the ongoing general elections. He contested from Kashi for the first time in 2014 against Arvind Kejriwal and won the seat with a massive margin.

The Congress had kept the suspense going over whether or not Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra would contest from Amethi and Raebareli, till the early morning of the last day of nomination filing. The declaration came with a twist, Rahul Gandhi opted out from Amethi.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the designated National Central Bureau of India and also known as Interpol India, is responsible for all the communication and coordination with the Interpol, they added.

Smriti Irani, in an exclusive conversation with India TV, exuberated confidence that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will win all the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, to achieve NDA's target of 400-plus seats in the Lok Sabha elections.

Dr. Mallika Nadda has been working in the field of disability for more than 30 years. She will now represent 35 countries of the Asia Pacific region.

Shatrusalyasinhji is a former first-class cricketer and the last person to hold the title of Maharaja of Nawanagar. According to PM Modi, Shatrusalyasinhji is affectionate towards him as an elder.

While Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh may have been denied the ticket, the fact that the seat's contest remains within the family shows how influential the Thakur leader and six-time MP is in the region and the party.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday addressed his first election rallies in Gujarat after the announcement of the schedule for the Lok Sabha elections 2024. The Prime Minister addressed people in two regions including Banaskantha and Sabarkantha. He attacked Congress party over fake video row.

Around 100 schools in Delhi received bomb threat emails on Wednesday. The Crime Branch and IFSO unit of Delhi Police’s Special Cell have been roped in to trace the origin of the emails and their IP addresses and nothing suspicious has been found after the searches in the school.

Several schools said they were able to carry out a swift evacuation of the students and staff, but dealing with the parents was a challenge. Some schools said they plan to issue a circular for parents, outlining the standard operating procedure to guide them on how to react in adverse situations.

In his first election rally in Gujarat after the poll announcement, PM Modi said as long as he and the Bharatiya Janata Party were around, reservation in jobs and education granted to SCs/STs/OBCs, and economically weaker sections will be safeguarded.

Police in BJP-ruled Gujarat arrested a Congress leader and an AAP functionary, and Delhi Police issued notices to 12 more people from different opposition parties as the probe into the doctored video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's speech widened.

Isolated regions in Rajasthan's Bhilwara and Kota are facing drought-like conditions due to the rise in temperature. People are forced to install water pumps in well while farm labourers are walking several kilometres to get access to drinking water.

According to the poll panel, out of 21 states and union territories which went to polls in the first phase, 11 recorded a higher turnout of women voters. These are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Lakshadweep, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and Bengal.

Maria Alam Khan appealed the voters to practice 'vote-jihad' with intelligence, without being sentimental and in silence. Polling in the first two phases has already concluded on April 19 and April 26. Five more phases are yet to vote. Results will be declared on June 4.

Polling in Rae Bareli is scheduled to take place in the fifth phase on May 20. It's one of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. Congress patriarch is the incumbent MP from Rae Bareli, however, she is not contesting Lok Sabha elections.

Polling in first phase of Lok Sabha elections was held in April 19 and second on April 26. While voting in the first two phases have been completed, five more phases are yet to go for polls. Results will be declared on June 4.

Speaking in Kaimganj in support of I.N.D.I.A bloc candidate Naval Kishore Shakya, Maria Alam Khan said, "Together do vote jihad -- with intelligence, without being sentimental and with silence. As we can only do vote jihad to drive away this Sanghi government."

Maharashtra is voting in the first five phases during the Lok Sabha elections. Polling on 13 Lok Sabha seats has already concluded in the first two phases.