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It is a two horse race and the BJP and Congress are gaining vote share from BSP and Others category which is seeing a negative swing of 9 per cent. This is where the vote share gains for BJP and Congress are accruing from.

As per the poll, 35.8 per cent respondents said Vasundhara Raje is the most popular BJP leader in Rajasthan followed by Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat who got 9 per cent of the vote.

About 58 per cent of the people in Rajasthan feel that the removal of Rajendra Gudha as a minister by the Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot will hamper the Congress party in the upcoming Assembly elections in the state.

Amid total chaos and bedlam in Lok Sabha on Friday, three bills were passed within minutes, which included the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2023, which will allow private sector to bid for mining critical minerals like Lithium.

The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned to July 31 a plea filed by Hyderabad University's professor Kham Khan Suan Hausing challenging summons issued by a Manipur Court in a criminal complaint lodged against him for allegedly defaming the Meitei community during an interview.   

In the wake of a blistering attack by Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh against his Mizoram counterpart Zoramthanga, sources in Aizawl have revealed that the Mizo National Front (MNF) government’s offer to help bring peace in the violence-hit neighboring state was turned down by authorities in Imphal.

The Supreme Court on Friday could not take up for hearing pleas related to the ethnic clashes in Manipur, including the suo moto case where the Central and state governments were directed to take immediate steps on the viral video of two young tribal women being paraded naked.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted searches and raids at the residences and business premises of a few leaders of the banned Islamist organisation, Popular Front of India (PFI).

Political observers see this statement as a note of caution for BJP considering that the saffron camp managed to get its candidates elected from Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency thrice in 2009, 2014 and 2019 entirely because of the backing from GJM.

Former Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot has questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Manipur issue and accused the Centre of "miserably" failing to check the violence.

The Central government has informed the Supreme Court that investigation has been transferred to the CBI in relation to the disturbing incident where two young tribal women were paraded naked on a road by a large mob in Manipur.

With just one official working day left (July 31), a consumer organisation has called upon the Centre to extend the last date for filing of Income Tax Returns for the financial year (2022-2023) to bring relief to the people, here on Friday.

"The second revolution was the metro revolution. The third revolution is in the making, which is the high-speed rail. When we complete that project, people will see in India what an enormous ripple impact it has made."

In a virtual address at the inaugural session of the G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Ministerial meeting in Chennai, Modi said, "I call on the G20 to work constructively to work on an effective international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution." 

Lucknow witnessed a midnight drama at the Gautam Palli police station after the police detained Ankush Sharma, the Personal Secretary of Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Shivpal Yadav, a police official said.

The Delhi High Court has given a final chance to the Federation of Hotels and Restaurant Associations of India and the National Restaurant Association of India to file their affidavits, as per the order issued on April 12 regarding levy of service charge by their members.

A total of 8,381 weavers and artisans were benefitted from several initiatives undertaken by the North Eastern Handicrafts and Handlooms Development Corporation (NEHHDC) from 2020-23, Union Minister for Development of North-East Region (DoNER) G Kishan Reddy informed on Thursday.

Days before when a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court is slated to hear the batch of pleas challenging abrogation of Article 370, intervention applications have been filed by Kashmiri Pandits supporting the Centre’s 2019 move stripping special status accorded to erstwhile state of J&K.

As the ongoing anti-drug campaign, Punjab Police on Thursday achieved major success after at least 67 villages and 20 wards of Sangrur district have passed a resolution to oppose and socially boycott drug sellers and make their villages drug-free.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday attacked the Opposition alliance 'INDIA', alleging that India name is also there in East India Company and Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) as well.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his silence on Manipur violence, saying that he knows that his ideology has "burned" the northeastern state.

Launching a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party, Shiv Sena (UBT) President and former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said that the time has come to check the ruling party’s brand of ‘Hindutva’, here on Thursday.

A postgraduate student of rural management programme, has been suspended by the university authorities, allegedly for taking the side of Nobel Laureate economist Dr Amartya Sen in the latter's tiff with the university authorities and making social media posts on this count.

In the list of top 10 companies on the basis of total admitted claims resolution plan approved till March 2023, Essar Steel resolution in 2017 and concluded in 2019 remains the highest at Rs 42,231 crore or 77.40 per cent in terms of total realisation of the admitted claim, as per a compilation by IBC Laws.

According to police, 14-year-old Amulya, a resident of Narve village in Koppa taluk,  was found hanging from the washroom door in the government-run Morarji hostel.