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New Delhi, May 9: Political parties, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and their affiliates have ramped up spending on social media ads ahead of the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections. With 103,700 ads in library (in the February 19-May 4 period), Facebook received ₹22.85 crore from political parties and their affiliates for posting political ads on this platform. The BJP alone spent ₹3.68

New Delhi, May 9: East Delhi AAP candidate Atishi on Thursday broke down while reading a pamphlet containing "obscene and derogatory" remarks against her that she claimed has been distributed in the constituency by her BJP rival Gautam Gambhir. No immediate reaction was received from Gambhir. Atishi, who was accompanied by Deputy Delhi Chief Minister Manish Sisodia during a press conference, broke

New Delhi, May 9: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the plea of sacked BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav, challenging the Election Commission's decision to reject his nomination papers from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said, "we do not find any grounds to entertain the plea of Yadav". Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for Yadav, said, as per earlier

New Delhi, May 9: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the plea of sacked BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav, challenging the Election Commission's decision to reject his nomination papers from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said, "we do not find any grounds to entertain the plea of Yadav". Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for Yadav, said, as per earlier

Melbourne, May 9: An Australian jury on Thursday found three men guilty of terrorism after they set fire to a mosque in the southern state of Victoria in December 2016. Sunni Muslims Ahmed Mohamed, Abdullah Chaarani and Hatim Moukhaiber set fire to a Shiite mosque in a suburb of Melbourne. Two had plotted an attack in central Melbourne just weeks later and were convicted of conspiring to plan a

New Delhi, May 9: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea seeking direction to the Centre and the Election Commission to debar Congress President Rahul Gandhi from contesting Lok Sabha elections till the issue of his citizenship is decided. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi rejected the contention of the petitioners, who said that in a form along with the annual data of a UK

New Delhi, May 9: Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) for "abusing" former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and said Gandhi died due to the "hatred" of BJP-backed VP Singh government in 1991. The statement comes in the backdrop of recent comments made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi against the late prime minister. "Abusing a martyred Prime Minister is the sign

New Delhi, May 9: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday accused the Gandhi family of using warship INS Viraat as its “personal taxi” for a holiday when Rajiv Gandhi was at the helm, launching a fresh attack on the late Congress leader days after throwing the “Bhrashtachari No. 1” barb at him. Addressing his first poll rally in Delhi ahead of the May 12 elections for all its seven seats, Mr

New Delhi, May 8: Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are not going to places like Rajasthan and MP where their party is in a direct fight with the BJP, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal claimed on Wednesday. He also said Priyanka Gandhi, the Congress general secretary for Uttar Pradesh (East), will be "wasting" her time campaigning in the national capital. Priyanka Gandhi

Singapore, May 8: The ex-wife of an Indian-origin neurologist in Singapore has been granted Singapore dollars 25 million in assets, child support and spousal support by a British Columbia court, in one of the biggest divorce payouts abroad. Gobinathan Devathasan, 69, whose behaviour was described as "reprehensible" during the litigation, was ordered on April 29 to pay his ex-wife Christie