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Karnataka Urban Local Body (ULB) elections. Live results of Gajendragarh Town Municipal Council elections 2018.

Karnataka Urban Local Body (ULB) elections. Live results of Chitradurga City Municipal Council elections 2018.

The local bodies across 24 districts of the state had registered an average voting percentage of 63.8, according to polling data from the State Election Commission.

While Upendra Kushwaha has chalked out his next steps, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar is looking to the BJP as he would prefer the RLSP leader to go out of the equation than losing his own ground.

The measures, taken during the crucial meeting chaired by CM Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, are being seen as sops to woo voters in case Telangana, which is scheduled to go to polls along with the Lok Sabha seats, witnesses early polls.

Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi asked why the government is "afraid of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the deal, if it's fair".

None of the 12 biggest defaulters, who between them account for over Rs 1.75 lakh crore of NPAs, were given loan by the present government, Modi said at the launch of payments bank of the Indian postal department.

The Tripura Left Front committee had unanimously announced Biswajit Dutta as candidate ahead of the polls this year. He was later replaced by former SFI leader Nirmal Biswas.

The Karnataka chief minister arrived in Vijayawada this morning to worship Goddess Kanaka Durga, the presiding deity of the historic city, atop Indrakeeladri.

Amar Singh, who went to Azam Khan’s assembly constituency Rampur, had called a press conference and accused Khan of appeasing Muslims.

To Gandhi's demand of a JPC probe and sarcastic suggestion to Jaitley to revert in 24 hours, Shah retorted, "Why wait 24 hours when you already have your JPC-Jhoothi Party Congress."

Arun Jaitley has accused Rahul Gandhi and the Congress of delaying the Rafale deal by over a decade and seriously compromising national security.

Condemning arrests of five activists after raids in seven cities, Rashtriya Janata Dal ,Lalu Prasad Yadav, said that the country “is headed for autocracy”.

Mamata Banerjee alleged that under the Modi government the country was facing "more than Emergency as the people don't even have the right to speak" and exhorted the youths "to raise the slogan of ousting the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha election".

Pathak's resignation came a day after she was dropped from the list of media panelists authorised to officially represent the party in print and electronic media.

The AICC general secretary vacated the bungalow allotted to him as CM, but the government is yet to respond to his letter for office space.