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A 67-year-old critically ill British national was evacuated by the Indian Coast Guard off the coast of Goa on Thursday.

An encounter is underway between terrorists and security forces in the Imam Sahib area of Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district.

Ten suspected cattle smugglers were arrested with 130 animals following a raid on Jharkhand-Odisha border in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district on Thursday, a senior police officer said.

The Congress party on Thursday released the list of candidates for three Lok Sabha seats and 45 Assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh.

Two former Congress leaders in Karnataka who recently joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) figured in its list of candidates named on Thursday for 21 of 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

Mizoram is going to be a dry state, once again, from April 1 this year. The Mizoram Legislative Assembly has passed the Mizoram Liquor Prohibition Bill 2019, which seeks to ban consumption, manufacture and sale of liquor for general public.

Former Union Minister Daggubati Purandeswari will be the BJP candidate from Visakhapatnam Lok Sabha constituency as the party decided not to field outgoing MP K Haribabu from here.

The BJP on Thursday announced names of its candidates for 99 of the 147 Assembly seats in Odisha which will go for a simultaneous polls along with Lok Sabha in four phases beginning from April 11.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi MP and daughter of party supremo and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, K Kavitha, will seek re-election from the Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency, as the TRS announced the list of 17 candidates for the April 11 Lok Sabha polls on Thursday.

Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said on Thursday he will not plead for support with those Congress leaders who are against his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy's candidature as coalition candidate from Mandya in the Lok Sabha polls.

The Election Commission is the sole authority to decide election dates and courts have no jurisdiction to interfere with it, the poll body submitted in the Madras High Court on Thursday.

The BJP has announced candidates for five out of 11 Lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh, dropping sitting MPs including a union minister of state.

The BJP on Thursday decided to field Uttarakhand state unit chief Ajay Bhatt and his predecessor Tirath Singh Rawat from Nainital and Pauri seats respectively, replacing former chief ministers BC Khanduri and Bhagat Singh Koshiyari.

Union Minister Alphons Kannanthanam and former Mizoram Governor Kummanam Rajasekharan were among 13 candidates named by the BJP for the Lok Sabha elections in Kerala on Thursday. However, Tom Vaddakkan -- a Kerala Congress leader who recently crossed over to the BJP -- did not figure on the list.

Himanta Biswa Sarma, the BJP's main troubleshooter in the northeast, will not contest the Lok Sabha elections from Assam because of his responsibilities in the region, the BJP said on Thursday. The announcement was made by party chief Amit Shah on Twitter as the BJP declared its first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.