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8th phase polling claims one life amidst high turnout

May 8, 2014

Patna, May 8: High turnout was registered in the penultimate phase of the Lok Sabha election to 64 constituencies on Wednesday in which the fate of 1,737 candidates, including Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, were sealed.

One person was killed when police opened fire outside a polling booth in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district in a bid to prevent its capture.

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The highest turnout in the 8th phase was 81.28 per cent in the six seats in West Bengal, which Trinamool Congress is trying to wrest from the Left Front, followed by 76 per cent in Seemandhra, where voters chose 25 representatives to Lok Sabha and 175 members of the proposed Assembly simultaneously.

Two key battleground states Bihar (where seven constituencies went to polls) and Uttar Pradesh (15 seats) recorded turnouts of 58 and 55.52 per cent, respectively. The Congress hopes to retain as many seats as possible in constituencies coming under eighth phase in the face of a strong Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) seeking to hold on to their Muslim-OBC-Dalit vote base. With Wednesday’s polls, voting has been completed in 502 of the total 543 constituencies and the remaining 41 seats will go to polls in the last phase on May 12.

The focus was on Amethi, where Rahul is contesting for the third time, which recorded 55.2 per cent polling. Rahul, who has represented the seat since 2004, toured polling booths in Amethi on the voting day for the first time, apparently in the face of a tough challenge posed by his rivals Smriti Irani of the BJP and Kumar Vishwas of the AAP.

In neighbouring Sultanpur constituency, where Rahul’s cousin and BJP’s Varun Gandhi is in fray, 57.2 per cent voters cast their votes.

Barring sporadic clashes between workers of YSR Congress and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and alleged attacks on policemen in Rayalaseema districts, polling was largely peaceful in Seemandhra where Congress is battling hard to repeat its 2009 impressive show post bifurcation.

Prominent among the 118 candidates in Bihar were LJP chief Ramvilas Paswan from Hajipur and RJD candidate Rabri Devi from Saran.

In West Bengal, notable among the 72 nominees are nine-time CPM MP Basudeb Acharia facing the challenge of actress Moon Moon Sen of the TMC?from Bankura.

Two seats in Jammu and Kashmir registered a turnout of close to 50 per cent.

Baramulla Lok Sabha seat, where several incidents of militant violence have been reported since Tuesday and separatists gave a poll boycott call, recorded a turnout of 39.6 per cent.

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Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 10: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on monday thanked PM Narendra Modi  for extending birthday wishes to him in malayalam.

"Thank you, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for this elaborate birthday greeting in shudh sahitya Malayalam! Am touched by your thoughtfulness," Tharoor tweeted with a picture of the letter from Modi.

In another tweet, the Congress MP also posted its translation, that reads,

Tharoor, who is an MP from Thiruvananthapuram, turned 64 on march 9.

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Tuesday, 10 Mar 2020

Is he next Scindia waiting to board the BJP ship?

 

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March 9,2020

Kolkata, Mar 9: A diabetic man died in the isolation ward of a hospital in West Bengal's Murshidabad on Sunday, a day after he was admitted there with suspected symptoms of coronavirus following his return from Saudi Arabia.

According to doctors, he was admitted to the hospital with fever, cough and cold.

Though test results of his blood and swab samples for novel coronavirus were awaited, it can be said that he died probably of diabetes, Director of Health Services Ajay Chakraborty told PTI.

"The man was highly diabetic and was on insulin. He returned home from Saudi Arabia and had no money to take insulin for the last three to four days.

"He was also suffering from fever, cough and cold. He was admitted to the isolation ward of the Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital yesterday and died today," the health services director said.

"We are waiting for the results of medical tests. The possibility of his death due to novel coronavirus infection is remote," he said.

However, precautions will be taken during the last rites of the victim according to the directives set by the central and state governments for patients who die of the virus, another senior official said.

"Family members will not be allowed to touch the body since the man had been suffering from cough and breathlessness. Those performing his last rites will be given protective gear, masks and gloves. Though test results are yet to be known, we do not want to take any chance," he said.

Meanwhile, the state health department has issued a directive to all private medical facilities to create a system for assessing all patients at admission allowing early recognition of possible COVID-19 infection and immediate isolation of patients with suspected novel coronavirus infection in an area separate from other patients.

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New Delhi, Jun 29: India recorded 19,459 new coronavirus cases and 380 deaths in the last 24 hours.

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday, the total coronavirus cases in the country stands at 5,48,318 including 2,10,120 active cases, 3,21,723 cured/discharged/migrated and 16,475 deaths.

Maharashtra's COVID-19 count touched 1,64,626 and cases in Delhi have reached 83,077.

The total number of samples tested up to 28 June is 83,98,362 of which 1,70,560 samples were tested yesterday, as per the data provided by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). 

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