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Garima Saikia Garg said she used to go to vote along with Zubeen
Wife of late singer Zubeen Garg, Garima Saikia Garg, and his sister Palmee Borthakur cast their votes at polling booth 116 in Dispur as voting is underway for the state assembly election. Despite being recently discharged from the hospital, Garg said she came to vote in Dispur, stressing it is...
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Pic of the chart. @isna_farsi
Semiofficial Iranian news agencies on Thursday released a chart indicating that the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard may have deployed sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz during the war. The move appears intended to pressure the United States, as uncertainty continues around a fragile,...
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Voter turnout in Assam was recorded at 38.92 per cent, as of 11 am on Thursday, while in Keralam it was at 33.28 per cent, the data shared by the Election Commission of India (ECI) for the ongoing 2026 Assembly elections said. The polling trends in the Union Territory of Puducherry showed a...
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Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri, will be on an official visit to the State of Qatar on 9-10 April. India heavily imports LPG and LNG from Qatar, which serves as one of its largest suppliers.As of early 2026, Qatar provided a significant portion of India's...
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A woman grieves by graves of Hezbollah members in Lebanon. Stringer/Reuters
Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia in Lebanon, said early Thursday that it launched rockets toward northern Israel in response to alleged Israeli violations of a ceasefire agreement. This marks its first reported attack since the deal was reached, according to Reuters. Meanwhile, Israel...
11:33
Iran's envoy in Pakistan Reza Moghadam
Reza Amiri Moghadam, the Iranian envoy to Pakistan tweets this message on X: Despite skepticism of Iranian public opinion due to repeated ceasefire violations by Israeli regime to sabotage the diplomatic initiative, invited by Hon. PM Shehbaz Sharif, Iranian delegation arrives tonight in...
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has set up a special body to deal with the effects of the West Asia conflict on the economy and security of the country. The National Coordination and Management Council (NCMC) was constituted hours ahead of the two-week ceasefire achieved between the US and...
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A bombed building in southern Lebanon. Yara Nardi/Reuters
US Vice President JD Vance firmly discarded the claims of Lebanon being a part of the truce talks between Washington and Tehran, as the precarious two-week ceasefire comes into place. Speaking to reporters ahead of his departure from Hungary, on whether Lebanon was included in the peace...
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Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi on Thursday appealed to all voters of the state to come out in large numbers and exercise their Constitutional rights to secure their future.Polling for all 126 Assam assembly constituencies began at 7 am to decide the electoral fate of 722 candidates. In...
10:32
Union minister Sures Gopi votes
Polling in the Kerala Assembly elections saw a turnout of over 16 per cent after the first two hours of voting on Thursday. According to Election Commission (EC) figures, polling till 9 am recorded a turnout of 16.23 per cent with the highest being in Ernakulam district with 17.8 per cent....
10:29
Al Jazeera's Mubasher correspondent Mohammed Wishah was killed in a drone strike west of Gaza City on Wednesday.Mohammed is at least the 12th Al Jazeera journalist Israel has killed in Gaza since launching its assault on the Palestinian territory in October 2023.Read more here.
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Over 15 per cent of the total electorate turned out to vote in the byelection to Tripura's Dharmanagar Assembly constituency in the first two hours of polling on Thursday. A little over 46,000 voters of the constituency in North Tripura will decide the fate of six candidates in the bypoll...
10:22
Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Thursday asserted that the United Democratic Front (UDF) would cross the 100-mark in the Keralam assembly polls, for which voting is being held today. He said that people were fed up with Pinarayi Vijayan as the Chief Minister and calling for...
10:01
Stock market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty tumbled in early trade on Thursday after an impressive rally in the previous session amid fresh tensions in West Asia, igniting concerns over a potential ceasefire breach. The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 243.57 points to 77,319.33 in opening...
09:59
Actor Mohanlal votes
As voting begins for single-phase Assembly polls, Keralam Minister V Sivankutty on Thursday cast his vote at a polling station in Thiruvananthapuram's Mudavanmugal. The voting percentage is 16.23% as of 9 am.Apart from Sivankutty, renowned Malyalam actor Mohanlal also stood in the queue and cast...
09:57
Keralam BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Thursday cast his vote in the Assembly elections being held today and described the contest as important while urging voters to make their vote about change.Chandrasekhar, who is contesting from the high-profile Nemom Assembly constituency, voted at a...
09:49
US President Donald Trump posts on Truth Social -- All U.S. Ships, Aircraft, and Military Personnel, with additional Ammunition, Weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded Enemy, will remain in...
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Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority on Thursday said it received an India-flagged vessel carrying 15,400 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) that successfully crossed the Strait of Hormuz amid the West Asia conflict. JNPA described the development as notable in the backdrop of the war involving...
09:27
A 75-year-old doctor from Pune was cheated out of Rs 12.31 crore in an online share trading scam, with fraudsters allegedly coercing him into making multiple investments, police have said.According to police, the senior citizen received a message from an unidentified number in the last week...
09:26
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday appealed to the people of Assam, Kerala and Puducherry to exercise their franchise in large numbers in the assembly elections in the two states and the Union Territory. In separate messages in English, besides Assamese, Malayalam and Tamil -- the regional...
08:41
Voting for high-stakes Assembly elections in Kerala, Assam and Puducherry started at 7am and will continue till 6pm. In Kerala, around 2.71 crore voters will decide the fate of the 883 candidates who are contesting from the 140 assembly constituencies.The electorate comprises 1.32 crore men,...
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A fire broke out in a 20-storey residential building in the Goregaon (East) area of Mumbai on Wednesday evening, officials said, adding that nobody was injured.The blaze was confined to part of the eighth floor of Emerald No. 1, Royal Palms Estate, on Aarey Road, officials stated.Five people were...
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The Union Cabinet is learnt to have cleared on Wednesday draft bills which seek to implement the Women's Reservation Act before the 2029 parliamentary polls and increase the number of Lok Sabha seats to 816 with 273 reserved for women.Sources privy to the development said a meeting of the...
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