Tories could be left with 'fewer than 100' MPs after next general election, major poll suggests

Rishi Sunak's Conservatives are on course to win fewer than 100 seats in the general election, according to a major poll that suggests the party is facing the worst result in its history. A survey of 15,000 people, used to build a seat-by-seat breakdown, indicated the Tories would win in …...Read More

Tories could be left with 'fewer than 100' MPs after next general election, major poll says

Rishi Sunak's Conservatives are on course to win fewer than 100 seats in the general election, according to a major poll that suggests the party is facing the worst result in its history. A survey of 15,000 people, used to build a seat-by-seat breakdown, indicated the Tories would win in …...Read More

Flying squad head suspended for laxity

March 31, 2024 03:54 am | Updated 03:54 am IST - CHENNAI Geetha, the head of a flying squad team (FST), has been suspended for being lax in checking the cavalcade of DMK candidate A. Raja at an inter-State checkpoint in the Nilgiris. Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Satyabrata Sahoo said …...Read More

ED questions Shahjahan Sheikh inside jail

March 31, 2024 03:39 am | Updated 03:39 am IST - Barasat The Enforcement Directorate on March 30 questioned suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sheikh Shahjahan in the Basirhat Correctional Home in connection with cases involving land grabbing in Sandeshkhali. A team of ED officers interrogated him inside the jail …...Read More

Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad arrests five Bangladesh nationals for illegal migration

March 31, 2024 03:31 am | Updated 03:31 am IST The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on March 30 said that five Bangladeshi nationals were arrested from Navi Mumbai for entering and living in India illegally without any valid documents. An ATS official said that they received a tip-off on Friday …...Read More

LS polls: NCP (SP) files complaint with ECI against Shiv Sena and BJP over star campaigners list

March 31, 2024 03:31 am | Updated 03:31 am IST - Mumbai The Sharad Pawar camp on March 30 said it has filed a complaint with the Election Commission against the ruling BJP and Shiv Sena for violating the Representation of the People Act and poll code by publishing the …...Read More

As BJP’s Jugal Kishore Sharma files papers from Jammu seat, party shapes poll narrative around Article 370

March 31, 2024 03:21 am | Updated 03:21 am IST - JAMMU/SRINAGAR The BJP is shaping its poll narrative around the positive impacts of abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, as its senior leader Jugal Kishore Sharma filed the nomination papers for the Jammu parliamentary constituency on March …...Read More

Abdullah’s NC, Lone’s JKPC launch scathing attacks on each other ahead of Lok Sabha polls

March 31, 2024 03:15 am | Updated 03:15 am IST - SRINAGAR Former constituents of the Peoples Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), the National Conference (NC) and the J&K Peoples Conference (JKPC) have engaged in a war of words ahead of the Lok Sabha election in the Kashmir valley. …...Read More

Maoist carrying ₹5 lakh bounty on head arrested in Jharkhand

March 31, 2024 02:59 am | Updated 02:59 am IST - Latehar (Jharkhand) A member of the banned CPI (Maoist), who was carrying a bounty of ₹5 lakh on his head, was arrested in Jharkhand’s Latehar district, police said on March 30. The Maoist was identified as Nageshwar Bhokta alias …...Read More

Two-thirds of those with skin condition vitiligo struggle with mental health

Two-thirds of people with vitiligo say the skin condition affects their mental health, according to a new survey. The survey of more than 700 people by The Vitiligo Society found sufferers felt insecure and self-conscious as a result of the condition, which reduces skin pigmentation. Eight in 10 people said …...Read More