Polling in 70 constituencies began at 8 am and will conclude at 5 pm, except in nine polling booths in the Maoist-affected Bindranawagarh seat in Gariaband district, where voting began at 7 for security reasons, a poll official said.
Army troops thwarted a terrorist attack on a security post and house of a village defence guard (VDG) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district early Monday morning, officials said.
The Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards were held at Mumbai's Taj Lands End hotel on February 20.
'It was a war-like situation, but instead of enemy fire, we fought against the vagaries of nature,' says Major Seeta Shelke.
And possibly in all of Asia, going by his reported fee of Rs 275 crore for Thalapathy 69, his coming movie.
Chattopadhyay was seen being taken out of his residence at Subhasgram in South 24 Parganas district around 2 pm by ED officials, who previously conducted search operations at the premises for over seven hours.
'Till 10 pm last night, we rescued 70 people, after which we had to stop because of bad weather and rain.'
The ministry of home affairs has held multiple meetings, the latest being early this month, to thrash out the issues delaying the implementation of the policy.
A BSF jawan allegedly shot himself dead after killing his colleague at a camp in West Bengal's border town of Murshidabad on Monday, officials said.
In Nashik, around 200km from Mumbai, two groups clashed during a bandh called by the Sakal Hindu Samaj in protest against atrocities on minority community members in the neighbouring country, leading to tension in the Bhadrakali area, where police lobbed tear gas shells to disperse the crowd.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday defended the Agnipath scheme underlining that the future of youths joining as Agniveers would not be impacted, even as he said the government was 'open' to bring any change in it 'if required'.
'I am a spontaneous actor. I follow what works for the character.'
The Sainik Group Centre in Ranikhet on Sunday identified the body as that of Chandrashekhar Harbola of 19 Kumaon Regiment. Harbola was part of a 20-member troop that was dispatched to the world's highest battlefield for 'Operation Meghdoot' to fight Pakistan in 1984.
'Unlike in the sporting arena, where sports federations moved from partisan to impartial referees, in Indian democracy's biggest festival, it appears we are moving backward from unbiased and objective to one-sided and partisan,' observes Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
In a suspected case of food poisoning, 26 personnel of the Indo Tibetan Border Police fell ill with after consuming meal at their camp in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district, officials said on Friday.
'If the country felt very strongly about the BJP, then why did the country not put money where the mouth is?'
The troops of these two units are expected to be based in Samba and near the Jammu-Punjab border, the sources said.
Sukanya Verma compares yesteryear stars and the contemporary ones at about approximately the same age and the results are glaring.
The shootout occurred at a place between Haraothel and Kobsha villages though the police are not yet sure about how it began.
The movie star took a break from a film shoot in Amritsar to visit a BSF campus.
'The lack of a majority isn't the issue. He has enough in 240, especially as none of his allies can pull down his coalition.' 'That's why he's started as if this were just another, normal term. That pretence is vital for him.' 'The change for Modi 3.0 comes not from numbers, but from the new environment of contestation,' points out Shekhar Gupta.
"The prime minister asked them to deploy the full spectrum of our counter-terror capabilities," an official source said.
The DGP, along with additional director general of police (law and order) Vijay Kumar and Jammu zone additional director general of police Anand Jain, visited Jammu-based White Knight Corps and interacted with General Officer Commanding Lt Gen Navin Sachdeva, the army said.
As she reached Ayodhya, she said, she felt a new sense of energy.
For the first time, jawans from armed forces would be taking part in the Combined Commanders' Conference to be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this week.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met Kirti Chakra recipient Captain Anshuman Singh's mother, who later spoke against the Agnipath scheme and urged the government not to divide the Army into two categories.
Ranbir Kapoor's Animal has entered the Rs 500 Crore Club (Rs 5 billion) in its third weekend itself.
With the death of the three JeM terrorists in Anantnag, the number of terrorists killed in two gunfights, which broke out in South Kashmir on Wednesday night, has risen to six.
A land-owning class, the Jats are a powerful community and account for 28 per cent of Haryana's population. The time, they believe, has now come for them to take revenge.
A suspected Pakistani terrorist and a Central Reserve Police Force jawan were killed following the terrorist attack on the village near the International Border (IB) on Tuesday evening, which also left a civilian injured.
'Instead of Samaiya Madvi, his mortal remains have reached the new house'
There was no traditional exchange of sweets and pleasantries between the two sides along the International Border, the officials said, attributing it to the tense situation following the recent ceasefire violations by Pakistan Rangers that left a Border Security Force jawan dead.
In this photograph, which is being circulated on social media, Manhas, a commando with the 210th CoBRA battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), is seen sitting in a hut alone without any Naxal in the frame.
Deva recently replaced Hidma as commander of the Maoists' battalion no. 1, the IG added.
The home minister will also review the preparation for the annual Amarnath pilgrimage set to start on June 29.
2023 is the year of records. So many have been broken and so many more milestones achieved.
Film folk have been celebrating these last few days. Here's looking at just how.
In a major joint offensive, separate joint teams of security forces, comprising over 2,000 personnel, had launched an anti-Naxal operation from Bijapur and Sukma districts in the South Bastar forests, considered as the Maoist stronghold, on Friday night.
Stars lit up the evening with their gorgeous avatars on Day 2 of Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani's pre-wedding celebrations.
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