Politics Today

Although, YSRCP and TRS have been in touch with opposition parties since the exit-poll results, the BJP has also been banking on the two parties to boost the NDA numbers if the mandate doesn’t turn out to be what the exit polls predicted. Read More

Two days after Indian athlete Dutee Chand acknowledged being in a same-sex relationship, she had claimed that her elder sister Saraswati was blackmailing her for money and threatened to go to town about Dutee’s love with a girl. Read More

Two days before counting of votes begins, representatives of 22 opposition parties met the Election Commission officials to make a host of demands including “tracking” of electronic voting machines and extensive use of voter-verified paper audit trails. Read More

At least 11 people, including National People’s Party MLA Tirong Aboh, have been killed in Arunachal Pradesh when suspected militants of the National Socialistist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) group ambushed them in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tirap district. Read More

The Indian Coast Guard seized a drug-laden Pakistani boat, “Al Madina”, off the Gujarat coast. A total of 194 packets of heroin weighing 200 kilograms were seized. The drug is estimated to be valued at ₹600 crore in the international market. Read More

The Indian Air Force removed the air officer commanding of the Srinagar airbase in connection with the crash of a Mi-17 helicopter in Budgam, on February 27, after it came under “friendly fire”, which killed six IAF personnel on board and one civilian on the ground. Read More

The Central Bureau of Investigation gave a clean chit to Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son and party leader Akhilesh Yadav in relation to a case on disproportionate assets. The CBI filed an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court in this regard. Read More

Actor Vivek Oberoi tweeted a meme showing actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to express his take on the exit polls of the Lok Sabha election. Many Twitter users found this meme to be distasteful and condemned Oberoi. Read More

The Bharatiya Janata Party has challenged the Kamal Nath-led Congress government in Madhya Pradesh and called for a special assembly to prove its majority in the floor of the 230-member house. Read More

While considering exit poll that predicts full mandate for Bhartiya Janata Party-led NDA in the Lok Sabha election 2019, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav met his ally Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati. Read More