Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s grandnephew and Trinamool Congress candidate from West Bengal’s Jadavpur Sugata Bose co-owns an apartment and a car in the US while his total assets in both countries are worth over Rs.4.5 crore.
According to his affidavit filed before the Election Commission, the Harvard University history professor, assessable to income tax in the US, had an annual income of $171,547 equivalent to over Rs.1.02 crore in 2013.
Tamil Nadu’s MDMK Thursday complained to the Election Commission against software major Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) reportedly not allowing its employees to exercise their democratic right to vote. The company has denied the charge.
In his complaint to the poll body, MDMK’s Tiruvallur district secretary D.R.R. Senguttuvan said the TCS did not allow around 700 employees at its DLF IT Park office here to vote and forced them to work.
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Thursday filed his nomination papers for the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency, and paid tribute to the “Ganga Yamuna tehzeeb (composite culture)” of the city.
Accompanied by close aide Amit Shah, and party leaders Ravi Shankar Prasad and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Modi promised to improve the lot of the city’s Muslim weavers before filing his nomination.
Placing responsibility to nation uppermost, cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar Thursday cast his vote here before celebrating his 41st birthday.
Tendulkar voted in Mumbai’s North Central Lok Sabha constituency and tweeted later to his fans: “I have voted, have you? A wonderful start to my birthday, as a responsible citizen of our great nation.”
He also posted a photograph which shows him displaying his inked finger.
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A woman returning officer died while on election duty Thursday at a polling station in Thane.
According to an election department official, 35-year-old Vaishali Bhave was on duty at the Khoppat polling station when she complained of chest pain around 1.30 p.m.
She was rushed to the Thane Civil Hospital where she was declared dead.
Bhave was the principal of New Bombay City High School at Koparkhairne suburb of Navi Mumbai in Thane district.
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A clash between villagers and police that also left many media persons injured in Rajasthan’s Dausa marred voting even as over 47 percent of the eight million-plus electors cast their ballots till 3.30 p.m. in five constituencies in the state’s second and final phase of polling.
“Till 3.30 p.m., as per tentative information received, we have recorded 47.20 percent polling in these five constituencies,” an official told IANS.
As Priyanka Gandhi raked up the ‘snoopgate’ issue against Narendra Modi, BJP today hit back saying her remarks suggesting there should be no personal attacks meant that Gandhis are entitled to “stoop to any level” but others cannot target them.
Saudi Arabia’s health ministry says two more patients who became infected with a Middle East virus related to SARS have died, and that 13 others have contracted the virus.
The ministry said today that the new cases from the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus were reported in the capital of Riyadh, as well as in the western city of Jiddah and the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
The deaths bring to 83 the number of people who have died in the kingdom since contracting the virus in September 2012. The kingdom has recorded a total of 285 confirmed cases.
NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul has hoped that the new Prime Minister will “not worry” about a “few industrialists” and run a government that thinks for the poor.
“We are present here at the time of the elections which is a great time because it is the largest democracy in the world and a very stable democracy. Whether it is India Shining or Incredible India it has failed the poor of the country. So elect a government that thinks for the poor,” Lord Paul said at a conference organised by University of Wolverhampton here on Wednesday.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that the reconciliation deal reached with his rival Hamas movement will empower the principle of the two-state solution.
Abbas said in an statement that the reconciliation agreement reached with Hamas, which controlled the Gaza Strip by force in 2007, doesn’t at all contradict with the peace negotiations with Israel, Xinhua reported.
Two policemen were killed early Thursday when suspected Al Qaeda gunmen raided a security outpost in Yemen’s southeastern province of Hadramout.
“The police forces repelled the Al Qaeda attack which took place in Hadramout’s city of Shibam, but two police personnel were killed in the exchange of fire with the attackers,” a military official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Another security source in Hadramout confirmed the incident, saying that “the Al Qaeda attackers fired two rocket-propelled grenades toward a key police checkpoint in Shibam city”.
Fatah and Hamas, the two main rival Palestinian factions, have signed an accord to end seven years of violent division.
The signing of the accord also paves the way for elections later in the year and the formation of a unity government within weeks.
According to the Guardian, the move comes after a day of talks between Hamas and Fatah in Gaza that lasted until three hours.
The landmark pact also comes less than a week before the expiry of the deadline for US-sponsored peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority on 29 April, the report said.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah, a close aide of the party prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, said on Thursday that the Modi wave which is sweeping the country has now turned into a tsunami after the latter had filed his Lok Sabha nomination from Varanasi.
“Till now there was a wave of Modi and the BJP in Uttar Pradesh. But now, as he has filed his nomination, this wave has turned into a Tsunami,” said Shah, who accompanied Modi to the Varanasi Collectorate for the filing of the nomination.
Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism chiefs today appealed to Muslim women in the UK to prevent their relatives from travelling to Syria to fight against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime after a rise in arrests related to the conflict was reported.
The campaign was launched after a rise in the number of Britons caught travelling or returning from war-torn Syria, from 25 arrests last year to 40 in the first three months of 2014 was reported.
Four districts of South Kashmir, where polling is being held on Thursday, observed a shut down following a call given by hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
Shops, business establishments and petrol pumps were shut while public transport was off the roads, officials said. The effect of the strike was accentuated due to the holiday declared by the Election Commission on poll days in the respective constituencies.
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Thursday paid tributes to Varanasi’s “Ganga Yamuna tehzeeb” as he promised to improve the lot of the city’s Muslim weavers.
Paying tributes to the Hindu holy city’s secular ethos, Modi said he wanted to see Varanasi become an internationally known spiritual capital.
“Nobody told me to come here, nobody sent me (to Varanasi),” he said, shortly before filing his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha battle here in Uttar Pradesh.
YSR Congress leader Bhuma Shobha Nagi Reddy, who was injured in a road accident late Wednesday, died at a private hospital here Thursday, party leaders said. She was 41.
She is survived by her husband, former parliamentarian Bhuma Nagi Reddy, two daughters and a son.
Shobha, who was YSR Congress candidate from Allagadda assembly constituency in Kurnool district, was critically injured when her car overturned Wednesday night near Allagadda, about 300 km from here.
The former legislator was shifted to a hospital in Hyderabad where she breathed her last around 11.05 am Thursday.
Four people were killed Wednesday when their small aircraft crashed and burst into flames near the western Honduran city of Gracias, the authorities said.
The accident occurred on the day President Juan Orlando Hernandez traveled to Gracias – his hometown – to inaugurate a new airport.
“Deeply moved for the victims of the air accident, may the presence of god be a balm for their families in these difficult moments,” the president said on Twitter after learning of the crash.
As per the report of Dr. Wasey Naveed, Principal Govt. Nizamia Tibbi College, BUMS exams will begin from April 25 at Govt. Nizamia Tibbi College. Students can collect their hall tickets on April 24 from the principal Govt. Nizamia Tibbi College.
Dr. Wasey Naveed has instructed the students to arrive the exam centre on time. He told that practical exams will begin from May 15.
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The weekly meeting of Jamat-e-Islami Hind, Mallepally will be held on Thursday, April 24, after Maghrib prayers at Baitul Khair, IV floor, Anjuman Ground, Mallepally.
A debate on ‘Importance of vote and its right use’ will be held.
Messrs Faheem Ahmed, Aleemuddin, Syed Faheemuddin and Syed Shamsuddin will express their views.
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Artistes from New York’s critically-acclaimed Battery Dance Company and Kolkata Sanved present a soul-stirring performance, “Dancing to Connect” organised by Ananta Aspen Centre and EmancipAction in solidarity with victims of sexual violence.
The performance featured mesmerising dances of healing and inspiration by a troupe of young girls, who have survived a myriad of hardships, including gender violence, human trafficking and homelessness.
There can be no two opinions over the fact that Muslims can play the role of king makers in at least 12 out of 17 lok sabha sets and 80 out of 119 assembly seats of the state. A noted Muslim businessman of Musheerabad opined that if Muslims use their votes with prudence they can prevent BJP from coming to power but for this Muslims must differentiate between greater evil and lesser evil. Be it Congress or TRS; no political party is sympathetic towards Muslims; all are using Muslims as political toy.
An unidentified object found on a beach in Western Australia is not associated with the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
It emerged late on Wednesday that debris were seen on a beach 10 kilometres east of Augusta, about 320km south of Perth and near Australia’s most southwestern tip.
According to news.com.au, a member of the public stumbled across the items, which were handed to Busselton police.
The man also sent photos to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) for examination.
TDP candidate of Nampally assembly constituency carried out campaign on foot at Bada Bazaar, Syed Nagar, First Lancer, Hashim Ali Compound and other areas of Nampally segment and met elderly people, women and youth. He vehemently appealed to them to vote in his favour as he is having a record of 25 years of social service.
English footballer-turned TV personality Gary Lineker is reportedly ruing his ‘big mouth’ after unwisely vowing to get his ears pinned back if Real Madrid defeated holders Bayern Munich 1-0 in their Champions League semi-final clash.
The Match of the Day host made his pledge during the first-half of the game between the two Champions League giants, and unfortunately for Lineker, Real managed to weather Bayern’s pressure and grind out the match by a single goal.