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NEW DELHI: The final voter turnout in the first phase of the Bihar legislative election was recorded to be 65.08 per cent, announced the Chief Electoral Officer. This turned out to be 0.42 per cent more than the tentative voter turnout of 64.66 per cent.A total of 3.75 crore voters were eligible in the polls,…

Parliament of India (Image credit: DD news) NEW DELHI: The winter session of Parliament is scheduled to commence on December 1 and will continue until December 19, parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju announced on Saturday.Rijiju in a post on X said, “The President of India, Droupadi Murmu ji, has approved the proposal of the Government…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor has claimed that the unusually high voter turnout in the Bihar assembly elections is a direct sign that “winds of change” are blowing in the state. Kishor further claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is attempting to “instil fear” to retain power because the NDA has “nothing…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday mocked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s recent fishing attempt while addressing a public rally in Sitamarhi, taking a swipe at the opposition and claiming that Bihar’s fishery sector has grown under the NDA government.“The fishery sector saw huge growth in Bihar, but now some people are practising…

[ad_1] PM Modi with L.K. Advani on his birthday in 2024 (source: X/@narendramodi) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday extended greetings to veteran BJP leader and former deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani, lauding his contributions to the nation and the party on his 98th birthday.In a post on X , PM Modi…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Congress MP Sashi Tharoor on Saturday took a swipe at the depleting air quality of Delhi-NCR, sharing a social media post from six years back.Tharoor shared an image which said, “Kab tak zindagi kaatoge cigarette bidi aur Cigar mein? Kuch din to guzaro Delh_NCR mein. (How long will you spend your life…

[ad_1] NEW DELIH: Delhi airport on Saturday said that the operations are returning back to normal a day after a glitch in Air Traffic Control flight planning process caused over 300 flight delays.While issuing a advisory, Indira Gandhi International Airport asked the passengers to stay in touch with their airlines for the latest flight update….

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Terming Congress the “proud flagbearer” of the national song, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge Friday said ‘Vande Mataram‘, which was first publicly sung by Rabindranath Tagore at Congress session in 1896, awakened the collective soul of the nation and became the rallying cry for the freedom struggle. He alleged RSS never accepted the…

[ad_1] Thiruvananthapuram: Government Railway Police has launched a drive to screen drunk passengers at railway stations and on trains in Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam, Palakkad and Kozhikode zones, days after a drunk man allegedly pushed a teen girl off a moving train near Varkala town in Kerala. The authorities hope the exercise may act as a deterrent…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Delhi airport’s aging air traffic control (ATC) software crashed Friday after a glitch the previous evening remained unresolved, delaying 800-odd departures and arrivals at India’s busiest civil aviation facility by up to two hours. The ripple effect forced carriers to cancel around 100 flights across routes through the day. Airports Authority of…