April  

Weeks after Tamil Nadu went to polls on April 18; the Election Commission (EC) has stated that repolling will take place in 13 polling stations.

 
 

The opposition political parties including Congress and the CPI (M) alleged the presence of massive rigging, booth capturing, irregularities in the constituency at the time when voting was held on April 11

NCP national spokesperson Nawab Malik made the comment after the Supreme Court dismissed the plea of 21 opposition parties seeking a review of its April 8 order directing the EC to increase random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs to five polling booths per Assembly segment
 

Election to 542 Lok Sabha seats is being conducted in seven phases between April 11 and May 19. Election in Vellore constituency in Tamil Nadu has been cancelled following excess use of money power. Results will be declared on May 23.

 Telangana BJP president Laxman was shifted to the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences by police, hours after he began an indefinite fast outside the state BJP headquarters on April 29. He continued his fast in the hospital.

NCB Karnataka, Andhra and Telangana teams busted an interstate and international drug trafficking racket as part of an investigation between April 30 and May 2.
 

The film, on the life of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was stopped just a night before its worldwide release on April 11 when the parliamentary polls kicked off.

 Rimi Tomy and Royce Kizhakoodan, reportedly, filed a joint petition for divorce before the Ernakulam Family Court on April 16 this year.

The BJP leaders reportedly claimed that more than 20 students ended their lives after the intermediate exam results were out on April 18 in Telangana

The I-T officer Chandra Sekhar Reddy had directed the complainant to pay an amount of Rs 2 lakh out of Rs 7.5 lakh on April 29 and the balance in two instalments before May 3
 

Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker Dhanapal issued notices to Dhinakaran’s loyalists and AIADMK MLAs Kallakurichi legislator Prabhu, Kalaiselvan (Vriddhachalam) and Rathinasabapathy (Aranthangi) based on a petition filed by chief government whip S Rajendran on April 26

Since April 25, tension had gripped the tiny village of Sihai in Manipur’s Ukhrul district as NSCN (IM) had violated the ceasefire by setting up an unauthorised camp there.

Mayawati had filed that affidavit on April 2 in response to the Supreme Court’s decision on spending money on statues. She said that her statues represented the wishes of the people. Statues were constructed after an allotment of budget after adequate discussion in the state Assembly

 On April 29, celebs like Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Priyanka Chopra cast their votes. Among them was Twinkle Khanna. However, Akshay Kumar was conspicuous by his absence.
 

Pressure mines and ammunition were recovered near a restaurant in Kanagarayankulam, Vavuniya in Sri Lanka on April 29. Sri Lanka Army through its seven formations encompassing the entire country is carrying out search operations to apprehend terrorists