27 Mar, 23:48 (IST)

Congress released its eighth list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections today, March 27. The eight list of candidates released by the grand old party includes 14 names of candidates for seats in Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh.

27 Mar, 22:23 (IST)

External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Wednesday, March 27, lauded Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and said that his vision would help craft a "more ambitious agenda" for the India-Malaysia relationship. Jaishankar also conveyed greetings from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Malaysian leader.

27 Mar, 21:24 (IST)

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is expected to file his nomination papers from Kerala's Wayanad on April 3. The Southern state will go to the polls on April 26, in the second of the seven-phase elections, to elect all its 20 Lok Sabha members.

27 Mar, 20:36 (IST)

Shiv Sena on Wednesday, March 27, released its list of 40 star campaigners for the Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra. The list includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, BJP National President JP Nadda, Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Ramdas Athawale, Deputy Chief Ministers Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar, among others.

27 Mar, 19:28 (IST)

On March 27, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its seventh list of candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Navneet Rana has been selected as the candidate for the Amravati constituency in Maharashtra, while Govind Karjol has been nominated for Chitradurga in Karnataka.BJP Candidates List 

27 Mar, 18:40 (IST)

Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu, the District Collector of Kallakurichi, who's also the election officer for the district, issued an invitation card for the voters and requested them to not accept gifts or cash in return for votes. The card released by Sravan Kumar Jatavath is in the form of a traditional wedding invitation.

27 Mar, 17:43 (IST)

Indian Coast Guard (ICG) evacuated a critically ill man from a tugboat off Gujarat's Veraval coast, shifting him to a government hospital for urgent treatment. The man, identified as K Ponnusamy, 47, was evacuated from the tug 'ABS Anokhi', which is located approximately 10 km from Veraval.

27 Mar, 16:09 (IST)

An FIR has been filed against Karnataka Minister Shivaraj Tangadagi for derogatory remarks against PM Modi. The complaint, lodged at Karatagi PS in Koppal, cites sections 171C, 171F, and 505(1)(B) IPC.Karnataka Minister Shivaraj Tangadagi Faces FIR

27 Mar, 14:32 (IST)

Samajwadi Party, on Wednesday, announced Imam Mohibullah Nadvi as its candidate for the Rampur Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming 2024 elections.Samajwadi Party Nominates Imam Mohibullah Nadvi 

27 Mar, 13:05 (IST)

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal on Wednesday said he will present a detailed reply on “so-called Delhi liquor scam” in the court on Thursday, March 28. Sunita Kejriwal said this in a brief press conference on Wednesday.

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Mumbai, March 27: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday spoke to Rekha Patra, the Bharatiya Janata Party's Lok Sabha candidate from Basirhat. On Tuesday, he also spoke to Prof T N Sarasu, the BJP candidate in Kerala's Alathur Lok Sabha constituency, and assured her that strict action would be taken against those involved in the alleged irregularities in the cooperative banks in the southern state.

A day after a purported "objectionable post" was made against her by Congress leader Supriya Shrinate, actress-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut met BJP president JP Nadda at the latter's residence in the national capital on Tuesday.

The Congress on Tuesday released its seventh list of five candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, fielding R Sudha from Tamil Nadu's Mayiladuthurai constituency. The Mayiladuthurai constituency was with its ally DMK in the last elections. Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar had been an MP from this constituency thrice earlier. The Congress announced candidates for four seats in Chhattisgarh and one in Tamil Nadu.

Climate activist and innovator Sonam Wangchuk, called-off his 21-day hunger strike in Ladakh on Tuesday. Wangchuk was on a hunger strike in Leh in Ladakh, demanding statehood for Ladakh and its inclusion in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. "The first phase of the hunger strike is ending today but this is not the end of the agitation,” Wangchuk was quoted as saying by news agency PTI after taking a glass of juice from a minor girl here amid a massive turnout of people at the protest venue.

Five Chinese nationals and a local were killed in an explosion by a suicide bomber in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, as per a Reuters report. Local police had reached the spot and started relief operations. The fatalities ensued when the alleged suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers which was on its way from Islamabad to their camp in Dasu, Reuters quoted the regional police chief as saying.

Russian investigators were in Tajikistan on Tuesday, questioning the families of four men charged with carrying out a deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow, three Tajik security sources told Reuters. The sources, who were not authorised to comment publicly, said Tajik security officials had brought the families to the capital of Dushanbe from the towns of Vakhdat and Gissar, and from the Rudaki district.

A major bridge collapsed in the city of Baltimore in the US after a cargo ship crashed into it early Tuesday morning, sending cars and people plunging into the river below. According to news agency Reuters, Baltimore officials are claiming that at least eight people were thrown into River Patapsco after the 2.57 km-long Francis Scott Key Bridge crumpled into the water. However, the actual number of people who fell into the water remains unclear as the search and rescue operations continue.