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Second major round of Lok Sabha polls today

April 24, 2014

New Delhi, April 24: Over 18 crore voters in 117 parliamentary constituencies spread across 11 states and 1 Union Territory are eligible to exercise their franchise in the sixth phase of polling scheduled on Thursday.

Lok_SabhaThe sixth phase happens to be the second most major round of polling after the fifth phase held last week in which 121 constituencies were involved.

All 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu, the lone seat in Puducherry, 19 seats in Maharashtra, 10 in Madhya Pradesh, 5 in Rajasthan, 7 each in Bihar and Chhattisgarh, 6 each in Assam and West Bengal, 4 in Jharkhand and 12 seats in Uttar Pradesh are involved in Thursday’s polling.

With the sixth phase, the polling process will be completed in Assam, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.

The stakes are high not only for the BJP and Congress but also for key regional parties like the AIADMK, DMK, Trinamool Congress, Nationalist Congress Party and the Shiv Sena.

Thursday’s polling will seal the fate of several top contenders, including BJP senior leader Sushma Swaraj (Vidisha), Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav (Mainpuri), actor-turned-politician Hema Malini (Mathura), former Union minister Dayanidhi Maran (Central Chennai), former telecom minister A Raja (Nilgiris), Finance Minister P Chidambaram's son Karti (Sivaganga), MDMK leader Vaiko (Virudunagar), Union minister Milind Deora (Mumbai-South), AAP candidates Medha Patkar (Mumbai North East) and Meera Sanyal (Mumbai-South), former cricketer Mohd Azharuddin (Tonk-Sawai Madhopur) and former Jharkhand chief minister Shibu Soren (Dumka).

In Bihar, BJP's Shahnawaz Hussain, party's lone Muslim face in the outgoing Lok Sabha (Bhagalpur), is in the fray.

Among the prominent candidates in Chhattisgarh is Karuna Shukla, niece of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Shukla, who is the Congress candidate from Bilaspur, had left the BJP a couple of months ago. President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijeet is contesting on a Congress ticket from Jangipur, West Bengal.

Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir also goes to polls on Thursday where the fate of 12 candidates, including National Conference leader Mehboob Beg and opposition People’s Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti would be decided.

With the sixth phase, the polling in 349 of the 543 seats would be completed. The polling in remaining seats will be held on April 30, May 7 and May 12.

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August 1,2020

New Delhi, July 1: In a terrific incident with chilling echoes of the 2015 Dadri mob lynching, a Muslim man, who was carrying meat, was savagely attacked by a mob belonging to a saffron outfit in the presence of in BJP ruled Haryana on the eve of Eid al-Adha. 

The incident occurred at around 9 a.m. on Friday, July 31 at Badshahpur village in Haryana’s Gurgaon, when Lukman was transporting meat in a pic-kup truck. 

The attack was captured on mobile phones by onlookers and the video clips of the incident are now spreading on social media. 

A group of saffronite cow vigilantes chased the truck for about 8 km managed waylay it. Lukman, who was driving the truck was pulled out and brutally assaulted on the suspicion that he was transporting cow meat.

Just like Dadri, the police were faster at sending the meat to a lab for testing than catching any one of the suspects. One of the assailants - Pradeep Yadav- has been arrested. 

After being beating to an inch of his life, Lukman was bundled into the pick-up truck and taken back to Gurgaon's Badshahpur village where the goons started thrashing him again.

This is when the police stepped in and stopped them - only to find the assailants fearless enough to even take on them.

Lukman was taken to a hospital and the police filed a case against "unidentified individuals" even though the video of the incident recorded by witnesses shows the faces of the assailants.

The owner of the vehicles said that the meat was buffalo and he has been in the business for 50 years.

The police have so far refused to give a statement on record on the incident and explain their inaction as seen on video.

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News Network
March 25,2020

Chennai, Mar 25: Tamil Nadu reported its first Covid-19 death at the Rajaji Government Hospital in Madurai this morning. The 54-year-old man from Madurai had no history of travel to any coronavirus-affected state or country.

However, he did have contact with two Thai nationals who had tested positive for Covid-19 and are undergoing treatment in isolation in Erode.

"Despite our best efforts, the #COVID-19 +ve Pt at MDU, #RajajiHospital, passed away few minutes back. He had medical history of prolonged illness with steroid-dependent COPD, uncontrolled Diabetes with Hypertension,” Tamil Nadu health minister C. Vijayabaskar tweeted.

The patient tested positive for the coronavirus on March 23. Yesterday the minister had disclosed that the patient had not responded well to treatment due to his medical condition. “He has a medical history of prolonged illness with steroid dependent COPD, uncontrolled diabetes with hypertension,” he said.

As of Wednesday morning, the total number of Covid-19 infected patients in Tamil Nadu was 18, including one patient who has recovered.

The latest patients include a 65-year-old man who returned from New Zealand and is currently in isolation at a private hospital, a 55-year-old woman from Saidapet who is currently in quarantine Kilpauk Medical College Hospital, and a 25-year-old who returned from London and is undergoing treatment at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital.

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Agencies
June 25,2020

Patna, Jun 25: At least 83 people died due to thunderstorms in Bihar in the last 24 hours, according to Chief Minister's Office.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced Rs 4 lakhs each for the families of deceased.

Thirteen people died in Gopalganj, 8 each in Madhubani and Nawada, 6 each in Baghalpur and Siwan, 5 each in Darbhanga, Banka, East Champaran and 3 each in Khagaria and Aurangabad.

Due to thunderstorms, two people each lost their lives in West Champaran, Kishanganj, Jamui, Jahanabad, Purnia, Supaul, Buxar, Kaimur while one death each was reported in Samastipur, Shivhar, Saran, Sitamarhi and Madhepura.

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