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The election flying squad has seized over Rs 50 lakh from vehicles in Vellore during routine checks, ahead of elections. 

The 13-year-old student of a school in Ramannapet, Telangana had contested in a class representative election in which he lost to his classmate, a girl.

An estimated 12% of the over 2.44 lakh electorate exercised their franchise during the first two hours of polling, an official report said

The Lok Sabha debacle for the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) may prove costly as the Election Commission sends a show cause notice

 

Mishra, 78, had resigned from the Narendra Modi-led government as minister for micro, small and medium enterprises in 2017. The Uttar Pradesh leader did not contest the last Lok Sabha election

For the six vacancies from Tamil Nadu, there were seven valid nominations. One of them, DMK's backup candidate, NR Elango had withdrawn, which left six nominees in the fray for the biennial elections to Rajya Sabha

Jannayak Janta Patry leader Digvijay Chautala had commented that BJP leader Sapna Choudhary's art was vulgar after the dancer joined BJP in Haryana two days ago. He is being slammed by the BJP for his comment ‘degrading women’.

Speaking to reporters in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, the BJP president said that several leaders from the TDP, Jana Sena and the ruling YSRCP are all set to quit their party and jump ship to the BJP.

Rahul Gandhi is appearing in the defamation case of derogatory comments made against Amit Shah during a Lok Sabha election rally. The Karnataka coalition partners should not blame the BJP for trying to destabilise the government when there are hints of their own lawmaker (JDS) scripting the resignation and threat drama. Watch MyNation in 100 seconds for the top headlines of the day.

Rahul Gandhi is appearing in the defamation case of derogatory comments made against Amit Shah during a Lok Sabha election rally  in Madhya Pradesh in April, calling him a "murder accused"
 

Former soldier Tej Bahadur was featured in the news in 2017 after he released a video claiming the army men were being served substandard food. He was eventually dismissed from service.

Though it could win only one of the total 119 seats in the Assembly elections held in December last year, the BJP is upbeat about its prospects in Telangana after bagging four of the 17 constituencies in recent Lok Sabha election
 

In the Lok Sabha election, the BJP managed to bag eight out of 21 Lok Sabha seats, up from one in 2014, while the Patnaik-led party secured 12 seats.
 

The Supreme Court bench was hearing a petition filed by Satish Ukey who is seeking the annulment of Fadnavis' election to the Maharashtra Assembly on the ground of alleged non-disclosure of all pending criminal cases against him

Earlier, the Lok Sabha election to the Vellore constituency was cancelled by the Election Commission (EC) two days ahead of the polling (earlier scheduled on April 18), following recovery of huge amount of cash