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May 20, 2024 4:48 PM IST
India News Live Updates: Jharkhand Lok Sabha polls phase 5: Nearly 54% voter turnout recorded till 3pm
- Jharkhand Lok Sabha polls phase 5: Till 3 pm, Chatra recorded a voter turnout of 54.74%, Hazaribag 52.82%, and Koderma 54.19 %.
May 20, 2024 4:43 PM IST
India News Live Updates: West Bengal Lok Sabha polls phase 5: 62.72% voter turnout recorded till 3pm amid incidents of violence
- West Bengal Lok Sabha polls phase 5: The Arambag (SC) parliamentary constituency registered the highest polling at 67.12%.
May 20, 2024 4:39 PM IST
India News Live Updates: Black flags shown to Kangana Ranaut in Himachal’s Kaza, BJP blames Congress
- Condemning the incident, former Himachal Pradesh CM Jairam Thakur accused the Congress of attacking their convoy.
May 20, 2024 4:24 PM IST
India News Live Updates: 4 Sri Lankan nationals with suspected ISIS links arrested from Ahmedabad airport
- According to people aware of the development in ATS, the four Sri Lankan men were taken into custody as soon as they arrived at the airport on Monday morning and a probe is underway
May 20, 2024 4:22 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Chhattisgarh: 18 tendu leaf collectors killed as their vehicle plunges into gorge
- The victims, mostly women, were returning to their village after plucking tendu leaves from a forest in Chhattisgarh’s Kabirdham district
May 20, 2024 4:19 PM IST
India News Live Updates: Supreme Court denies bail to former Samajwadi Party legislator
- A bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Satish C Sharma cited Pathak’s criminal antecedents, saying his prayer for release on bail seemed “unreasonable”
May 20, 2024 4:18 PM IST
India News Live Updates: PM Narendra Modi shares 1000-year vision, Congress takes ‘Goebbels’ dig
- PM Narendra Modi stressed the need for bureaucratic reform, asserting that “promotion should not be the sole objective.”
May 20, 2024 4:17 PM IST
World News Live Updates: June 2024 US Visa Bulletin: Minimal movement in EB Green Card categories despite advancement for family-based visas
- Once again, the 2024 June US Visa Bulletin reflects a lack of signifcant advancement for employment-based categories, while most family options progress.
May 20, 2024 4:15 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Indian Coast Guard rescues 26 people from tourist boat stranded off Goa coast
- The boat had departed for a dolphin sighting trip on Sunday morning. However, the weather turned windy with high waves later in the day
May 20, 2024 4:11 PM IST
World News Live Updates: Trump’s 35 second long freeze during speech sparks concerns & rebuke, netizens debate ‘long glitch’ or ‘unfit to serve’
- Donald Trump paused for 30 seconds during a speech in Texas. His supporters call it dramatic effect, critics say he’s not fit.
May 20, 2024 4:02 PM IST
World News Live Updates: Ebrahim Raisi death: 5 politicians who died in plane crash
- Iran President Ebrahim Raisi, along with his foreign minister, died in a helicopter crash on Sunday evening.
May 20, 2024 4:01 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: 15 dead, 8 injured as pick-up vehicle overturns in Chhattisgarh’s Kawardha
May 20, 2024 3:58 PM IST
India News Live Updates: SC flags importance of allowing junior lawyers to argue before vacation benches
- A bench of justices PS Narasimha and Sanjay Karol highlighted the issue of providing junior lawyers with the platform they need to develop their legal skills
May 20, 2024 3:50 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Rajasthan: 2 brothers sentenced to death for burning alive minor girl after rape
- The judge also noted the case is one of the “rarest of the rare category” and therefore the accused does not deserve any leniency for the heinous crime
May 20, 2024 3:32 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Mixed bag of achievements for CM Siddaramaiah on completing one year in office
May 20, 2024 3:31 PM IST
India News Live Updates: ‘Poor methodology’: ICMR dissociates itself from Covaxin safety study
- ICMR accused the authors of the study of erroneously adding acknowledgment of ICMR’s support on findings.
May 20, 2024 3:30 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Odisha CM surrounded by mafia, BJP will break its backbone: PM Modi
- PM Modi asked can a person, who does not know the culture and tradition of Odisha, run the state and said development of Odisha can only be done by sons of Odisha soil
May 20, 2024 3:24 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Kerala HC upholds death sentence for Assam man for rape, murder of Dalit law student
- The Ernakulam Principal District and Sessions Court had in December 2017 found Ameer-ul-Islam guilty of various offences
May 20, 2024 3:14 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Low voter turnout amid head wave mars daytime polling in Maharashtra
- Six Mumbai constituencies are witnessing neck-and-neck battles between ruling and opposition alliances; the ruling alliance has an edge in 4 remaining MMR seats
May 20, 2024 3:11 PM IST
India News Live Updates: ED moves Delhi court against Arvind Kejriwal, seeks extension of his judicial custody
May 20, 2024 3:07 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: 2 sentenced to death for raping, burning alive minor girl in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara
May 20, 2024 3:02 PM IST
India News Live Updates: 4 ISIS terrorists hailing from Sri Lankan arrested at Ahmedabad airport
May 20, 2024 2:50 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Heat wave: Punjab declares summer vacation in schools from May 21 to June 30
- State education department decided to advance the holidays in schools due to heat wave conditions in districts.
May 20, 2024 2:37 PM IST
India News Live Updates: Chennai woman, blamed for baby falling from 4th floor, dies by suicide: Police
- A police officer at Coimbatore’s Karamadai police station said her family told investigators that the woman had been depressed after the incident
May 20, 2024 2:36 PM IST
World News Live Updates: France heist: Armed men rob ‘several million euros’ from luxury Paris boutique
- The robbers entered the Paris jewellery store, located on Tony Avenue Montaigne, using a two-wheeler and stole valuables from several windows.