On Video, Deafening Sounds Of Gunfire Exchange Near Manipur Polling Booth

Gunshots were fired near a polling booth in Manipur this morning. A 25-second video circulating online shows commotion and people shouting before two shots are heard in quick succession.

An average voter turnout of 25.20 per cent was recorded in the first four hours of polling today in all eight parliamentary constituencies of western Uttar Pradesh where voting is underway in the first phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday played a 'dholak' that was gifted to him, and linked dholak and fast bowler Mohd Shami with Amroha's pride.

Women, who outnumber male voters in all the five Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam going to polls in the first phase, came out in large numbers to exercise their franchise today.

It was an 18-kilometer trek through the dense forest filled with wild animals for a team of nine polling officials, comprising three women, to record the vote of a bedridden citizen in Kerala's Idukki district.

Several social media users shared a video of Bollywood actor Aamir Khan purportedly talking about two types of 'guarantees' given to the citizens - 'good and bad' - to claim that he endorsed Congress party's campaign for the forthcoming Lok Sabha