As heavy rain and gusty winds continue in Kolkata following the landfall of severe cyclonic storm ‘Remal’, the Kolkata Municipality team and Kolkata Police Disaster Management team are engaged in clearing uprooted trees in the Alipore area of the city.
As many as six newborns have lost their lives after a massive fire broke out at a New Born Baby Care Hospital in Delhi’s Vivek Vihar in the late hours of Saturday.
According to the poll body, West Bengal recorded the highest voter turnout (77.99 per cent) followed by Jharkhand (61.41 per cent), Uttar Pradesh (52.02 per cent), Odisha (59.60 per cent), Jammu and Kashmir (51.35 per cent), Bihar (52.24 per cent), Haryana (55.93 per cent), and Delhi (53.73 per cent).
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi cast her vote in the sixth phase of the general elections at a polling station in Delhi.
West Bengal recorded a high voter turnout at 16.64 per cent till 9 am, as per the data provided by the Election Commission.
Delhi Minister and AAP leader Atishi on Saturday cast her vote in the sixth phase of the general elections and alleged that the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi VK Saxena
Former Chief Minister of Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday cast his vote in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls and said that the Congress candidate is not a challenge for him.
As the sixth and penultimate phase of polling for the Lok Sabha elections got underway at 7 am on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged voters to come out in large numbers and exercise their franchise.
Mock polls are underway across different states for the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Odisha, which is set to begin at 7 am on Saturday.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath applauded the recent decision by the Calcutta High Court to cancel all Other Backward Class (OBC) certificates issued in West Bengal post-2010 and said that the unconstitutional decision by TMC in 2010 was scrapped by HC.
