19 Nov, 00:03 (IST)

Announcement of fourth list of Congress candidates for the ensuing elections to Legislative Assembly of Telangana. Check the list in the tweet below:

18 Nov, 22:45 (IST)

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) releases sixth list of six candidates for Telangana Assembly Elections 2018. Check the names of the candidates below:

18 Nov, 22:03 (IST)

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) releases fourth list of 24 candidates for Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2018. Check the names in the image below:

18 Nov, 20:48 (IST)

One CRPF jawan lost his life after terrorists hurled a grenade towards CRPF camp at Railway colony in Kakapora in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.

18 Nov, 19:42 (IST)

Three member team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) to reach the blast site in Amritsar today. The blast that took place earlier in the day claimed three lives.

18 Nov, 18:27 (IST)

Congress Committee has written to the EC alleging violation of Model Code of Conduct by PM. The letter states that PM in his public rally in Chhindwara lied when he said,‘Kamal Nath says in a video that Congress will give tickets to goons, all it needs is a candidate who can win”

18 Nov, 17:26 (IST)

Ajay Rautela, DIG Garhwal Range said, "12 dead, of which 9 bodies have been recovered. Rescue operation underway." Earlier today a bus carrying 20 passengers fell in a gorge near Damta on Uttarkashi-Yamunotri Highway.

18 Nov, 16:41 (IST)

In a tragic incident two people died and 14 injured after a bus carrying more than 20 passengers fell in a gorge near Damta on Uttarkashi-Yamunotri Highway, earlier today. Rescue operation underway.

18 Nov, 16:00 (IST)

BJP has released the fifth list of 19 candidates for Telangana Assembly Elections 2018.

18 Nov, 15:42 (IST)

Two District Reserve Guard (DRG) jawans were injured in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast between Bheji & Elarmadgu in Chhattisgarh's Sukma District.

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New Delhi, November 18: The poll campaigning has reached at its peak in Chhattisgarh, where the second and final phase of assembly elections 2018 is scheduled on Tuesday, November 20. Today will be the last day of electioneering, as per the Model Code of Conduct norms. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will end the ruling BJP's campaign with a rally in Mahasamund. Stay tuned here for the live breaking news and updates related to elections, as well as other major news from India and across the world.

In other major news, PM Modi delivered a successful geo-political message in Male, where he attended the oath-taking ceremony of Maldives newly elected President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. While Solih blamed China for looting the state's coffers, Modi assured that India would be strongly aidiming the island nation in its path to recovery.

Meanwhile, tensions continue in Kerala, where right-wing outfits had called a bandh on Saturday to protest the detention of Hindu Aikya Vedi leader who had reached the Sabarimala shrine at 2am. The protesters have accused the Pinarayi Vijayan government of targeting Hindu leaders under the pretext of prohibitory orders.

On the international front, the voices of dissent in peripheries of Pakistan against the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project has grown louder. "CPEC is not a pro people project; it is a pro military project. It has a strategic interest, it isn’t to develop local people of Gilgit-Baltistan or Balochistan. We demand that this project be immediately stopped," said prominent PoK activist Jamil Maqsood.