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With the Congress emerging a distant second, incumbent CM Siddaramaiah has decided to submit his resignation at 4 pm.
Bengal rural polls 2018: Elections underway for 621 zilla parishads, 6,157 seats in 341 panchayat samiti seats, besides 31,827 seats in 3,385 gram panchayats.
In North 24 Parganas, a CPI(M) worker and his wife were charred to death last night.
Karnataka Elections 2018: The exit polls would be aired post 5:30 pm on the following news channels: ABP News, which has tied up with CSDS-Lokniti; TV9 with C-Voter; India Today/Aaj Tak with Karvy; Times Now-VMR and Republic-Jan Ki Baat, among others.
Muslim voters form a majority in 17 assembly segments, while constituting a sizeable portion in 28 others. Overall, the outcome on 45 seats would be determined in the way the community votes in the elections today.
While Congress has reposed faith in the incumbent CM Siddaramaiah, the BJP has named BS Yeddyurappa as its prospective chief minister. Will HD Kumaraswamy pull a shock victory?
In a late night raid conducted by EC officials at a flat in RR Nagar constituency on Tuesday, over 9,000 voter ID cards were seized, along with two steel trunks full of fake voter ID slips.
Here's a look back at Himanshu Roy's career graph, which witnessed a meteoric rise.
Centre had sent back the name of Justice KM Joseph for reconsideration, citing seniority and regional representation as its concerns.
The mosque where the bomb was planted is also being used as a voter registration centre by the government.
The notebooks bearing the image of the Pakistani girl have been distributed in all state-run schools of the district.
78.82 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the polling held in Williamnagar constituency on Thursday.
The overall pass percentage for Class 10th and 12th was recorded as 75.16% and 72.43% respectively -- a sharp fall from 81.6 (class X) and 82.5 (class XII) in 2017.
Unlike other track-II initiatives, Neemrana has an official character as both the Indian and Pakistani Foreign Ministries have associated themselves with the dialogue process in the past.
The 7th Pay Commission had revised the salary of Group D employees from Rs 7,000 to Rs 18,000. The employee unions have, however, called it inadequate.
From PDP, the two new faces inducted into the government are Mohd. Khalil Band, MLA from Pulwama, and Mohd. Ashraf Mir, MLA from Sonwar.
Haasan has released the app days after fellow-actor-turned politician Rajinikanth also released a mobile application for members and supporters of his party, Rajini Makkal Mandram.
"TMC is killing democracy in Bengal. Our party will continue to resist TMC's goondaism and brutal misuse of state power," said CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury.
Mallya, who is currently on bail after paying a bond of 6,50,000 pounds, is accused by a consortium of 13 Indian banks of wilfully defaulting loans amounting to Rs 9,000 crores.
Beginning the two-day summit with Jinping this afternoon, Modi in his opening remarks expressed gratitude towards the Chinese President for personally receiving him at Wuhan.