About 2.34 crore voters, spread across 78 assembly segments of the 243-strong assembly, will decide the fates of 1,204 candidates, including the Speaker and 12 members of the state cabinet.
The state polls are due in October-November.
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A round-up of Day 3 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday.
Bill Clinton's address had lessons for both Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi, says T N Ninan
The Congress, which had fought nine, lost all but managed to retain Kishanganj.
The 39-year-old Congress lawmaker from Bihar's Supaul rode in in a blue salwar kameez and dark sunglasses with a white helmet strapped on.
A seven-year-old girl was raped by two men in Khuteta Kala village in Rajasthan's Alwar district, following which enraged family members of the victim badly beat up the accused, the police said on Monday. Jagdish and Pappu had allegedly raped the child in a house in an isolated area on Friday night when the girl had gone to a nearby bus stand in search of her father.
The wife of a serial offender, who allegedly raped and murdered a minor girl following release from jail after serving sentence in similar offences, says her husband should be "hanged for the heinous crime."
However, as the region with the state's highest concentration of Muslims readies for polls on November 7 in the last phase of the elections, it is the Rashtriya Janata Dal-Congress-Left alliance that draws considerable support from the community amid sporadic voices in Owaisi's support as they weigh their choices.
The 1978 Malyalam film Rathinirvedam will be remade by T K Rajeev Kumar.
The ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh on Friday expelled its three leaders in Etah, including a former member of Legislative Assembly, for their involvement in anti-party activities.
The film tries very hard to critique Bollywood cliches but ends up being one.
If Uddhav continues in this mode as a serious-minded, capable leader with his hands firmly on the steering wheel, and succeeds in enabling Maharashtra weather the current storm, there is every possibility of his emergence as a leader who will be seen as someone who is ready to play a larger role, observes Amulya Ganguli.
While the assembly elections are being seen as largely a contest between the NDA and the Grand Alliance, the state has been witness to mushrooming of "morchas" (fronts) which may queer the pitch for the lead players in a tight contest.
The film launches Fahadh Faasil's younger brother, Farhan Faasil.
The marital dispute between Prasad's elder son Tej Pratap Yadav and Aishwarya Rai, a daughter of Chandrika Roy, has its shadow in the poll battle on this seat which votes on November 3.
In all the time he has spent in bank and ATM queues, these are the 10 arguments that were being thrown at him constantly by those supporting the demonetisation, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
A city court on Thursday directed framing of abetment to suicide charge against industrialist Ashok Todi and three others in the case of mysterious death of computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rahman.
Get your lowdown on what's going on in the Malyalam film industry.
The police, which had initially claimed that it was a case of suicide, later arrested the five accused and started a probe.
Twelve people were today killed when the jeep in which they were travelling rammed into a bus that was carrying foreign tourists, police said here. According to the police, the Tata Max jeep was carrying 13 pilgrims who had gone to the Prabhunath temple in Nepal.
Ahead of Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi's floor test, Assembly Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary on Thursday granted the status of principal opposition party to the Janata Dal-United in place of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which slammed the move as "arbitrary".
'In mocking him, Modi and Shah went horribly wrong.'
'It made Gandhi determined to fight to the finish, which now has the entire Sangh Parivar rattled,' says a Congress leader, privy to the repeated RSS outreach for a rapproachment.
Just once in a while comes along a film where the characters have the strangest names.
Hindol Sengupta will talk about things that matter -- or should matter -- to most of us as citizens, from financial scams to climate change, women's rights to parliamentary spends.
The 1978 Malayalam classic is being remade with Swetha Menon and Sreejith Vijay in the lead.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist on Friday demanded a judicial probe into the Purulia arms drop case alleging "gross negligence" of the then central government in handling the same which was meant to destabilise the the Jyoti Basu government in West Bengal.
An Indian businessman was shot dead in the heart of the capital, sparking a protest by the business community in Nepal today. Anjani Kumar Chachan 'Pappu', who was from the Marwari community hailing from Rajasthan, was gunned down in Ganabahal market around 7.30 pm yesterday.
The title Koothara has been derived from the names of the three young actors, Koubrin (Bharath), Tharun (Tovino Thomas) and Ram (Sunny Wayne).
The government on Wednesday named nine out of 15 members of the 'Shri Ram Janambhoomi Teertha Kshetra' trust constituted for the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya as mandated by the Supreme Court. Here's all you need to know about the members of the trust who have been named so far.
Additional Sessions Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar charged Ahmed, alias Pappu, for the offences of murder (Section 302) and attempt to murder (Section 307) of the Indian Penal Code, besides other penal offences for his role in the encounter.
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Renuka Shahane celebrates the movie's silver anniversary.
The composers of Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon know its audience well, says Aelina Kapoor.
The cast includes Fahadh Faasil, Jayasurya, Asif Ali, Unni Mukundan, Anoop Menon, Samuthirakani, Ananya, Bhama and Tanusree Ghosh
This is the first full-scale review of VIP protectees by the Union home ministry after the Modi 2.0 government took charge.
The RJD is yet to complete its seat-sharing talks with smaller allies and the Left parties.
Seven youths have been arrested here for allegedly putting up a banner with an image of Pakistani flag on it, police said on Tuesday.
"If you are so bent on giving suggestions, you should elect a new Speaker," an angry Speaker Sumitra Mahajan remarked on Friday as she pulled up Jyotiraditya Scindia and Pappu Yadav for causing repeated disruptions and unruly scenes in the Lok Sabha, including tearing of papers.
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