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Maharashtra, Haryana Assembly election results. Counting to begin at 8am. Exit polls for Maharashtra's 288-seat House and Haryana's 90-member Assembly have predicted a comfortable win for the ruling BJP-led NDA.

A day after Congress general secretary lashed out at Uttar Pradesh government for topping in the number of crimes against women, state deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya termed her as "Twitter Waali Neta"

India has issued an advisory to its citizens asking them to exercise ‘utmost caution’ while visiting Turkey. Helpline numbers of the Indian Embassy and Consulate General of Istanbul have been mentioned for those requiring assistance. Relations between India and Turkey strained lately after their President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the 73rd UN General Assembly session, made statements against abrogation of Article 370 by New Delhi.

An official communique from the chief minister's office stated that people with two children would not be eligible for government jobs in Assam from January 1, 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday (October 22) took to Twitter and announced that he would interact with the party workers in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi today. His interaction with the BJP workers comes ahead of state chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s participation during Deepotsav celebrations in Ayodhya.

Hours after Congress leader Akhilesh Singh made a controversial statement relating surgical strikes to elections, BJP MoS Nityanand Rai condemned his claims and said that there is no place for any "party politics".

BJP is set to score a victory in both Maharashtra and Haryana as per Jan Ki Baat exit poll

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded the police officers for performing their duties with the utmost diligence, Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy celebrated the Police Commemoration Day with state police officers

The relatives of the deceased BSF soldier demanded that a government school and a park be named after him in the village in Uttar Pradesh 

President Ram Nath Kovind in Philippines's Manila stated both the countries, India and Philippines, have been a victim of terrorism and are committed to working closely to eliminate terrorism

Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong has stated that China wants India and Pakistan to join hands. China stressed that it sincerely look forward to good relations between China and India, China and Pakistan as well as India and Pakistan, he added. India has consistently maintained that talks and terror cannot go hand in hand.

Here is a list of key candidates from both the BJP and the Congress in the states of Haryana and Maharashtra which are going to poll on October 21 

Watch the exclusive interview with Vikram Sampath, author-historian, who speaks on Veer Savarkar's Hindutva, Amit Shah's statement on re-writing history, Bharat Ratna for the Hindu activist, Congress' travesty and more
 

With just a few days left for the two states of Haryana and Maharashtra to go for polls, it looks like Congress has already accepted defeat and is only fighting for a lost cause.