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Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Phase-3: 60.6% total turnout recorded across 94 parliamentary constituencies

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Phase-3 voting: 1,331 candidates including at least four Union ministers are in the fray in this phase of the ongoing general election.

Karnataka, Maharashtra—Why Phase 3 could mean BJP falling short of the magic number 272

As in the second phase, the BJP-led NDA’s problem in the third phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha election is that it has an awful lot of seats to defend — 80 out of the 93 seats that go to polls.

Congress cites Modi’s backing of Gujarat OBC quota for Muslims to blunt attack on Karnataka matrix

In a public meeting last month, Modi accused Congress govt in Karnataka of giving ‘reservation based on religion through backdoor’ by putting all Muslim castes along with OBCs.

For Congress’s Sonal Patel, facing Amit Shah in Gandhinagar is ‘challenge, not political suicide’

62-yr-old architect who joined Congress in 1992 says party wanted to field someone 'with integrity' from seat that Shah won by margin of 5 lakh votes in 2019 & has been with BJP since 1989.

‘Played gully cricket, fed us pani puri’ — how Naranpura residents remember once neighbour Amit Shah

His ascent as leader & administrator was ‘full of hurdles, but always inevitable’, says former BJP MP Surendra Patel who worked closely with Shah in latter’s early years in politics.

86kg drugs worth Rs 600 cr seized from Pakistani boat off Gujarat coast; 14 arrested

Coast Guard is yet to disclose what kind of narcotic substances were recovered. The overnight operation in Arabian Sea was carried out in coordination with Gujarat ATS and NCB.

Karnataka, Gujarat best in renewable energy transition, Jharkhand, Bihar lag—think tank report

Study by Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and Ember finds most states have renewable energy infra but lag in decarbonising electricity sector.

BJP’s Surat pick Mukesh Dalal elected unopposed to Lok Sabha after 8 nominations withdrawn, 2 rejected

BJP hails 'historic moment', while Congress accuses it of 'match-fixing'. Surat has been a BJP bastion since 1989.

2 shooters arrested from Gujarat for opening fire outside actor Salman Khan’s residence

The two persons, Vicky Gupta, 24 and Sagar Pal, 21 are both residents of Bihar. A preliminary probe suggested that they were hired by Lawrence Bishnoi's gang.

Former IPS Sanjiv Bhatt’s 20-yr jail term will start after life sentence. Here’s what it means

Ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was Thursday sentenced to 20-year jail in 1996 drug planting case, while he had been handed life imprisonment in 2019 in custodial death case.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?