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Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Friday said his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy and nephew Prajwal Revanna were not contesting the Lok Sabha polls for "fashion", but for the sake for the people.

Three days after taking charge, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant Friday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, his office said.

The BJP has denied tickets to three sitting veteran parliamentarians in Assam and included four new faces, the deputy speaker of the assembly and a state minister in its first list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant retained home, finance and all other portfolios held by his predecessor Manohar Parrikar as he allotted departments to his Cabinet colleagues, three days after taking charge on Friday.

Pakistani troops on Friday resorted to fresh mortar shelling along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, while two Army soldiers were injured in overnight shelling from across the border in Jammu and Rajouri districts, officials said.

Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President Dinesh Gundurao on Friday said his party wants JDS Supremo HD Deve Gowda to contest elections from Bengaluru North constituency.

In a jolt to the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, three of their leaders switched over to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh on Friday.

Congress candidate and two-time Lok Sabha member of parliament Shashi Tharoor addressing an election convention in Thiruvananthapuram, though routine, is significant.

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal has said he will "certainly contest" from Delhi's Chandni Chowk seat in the Lok Sabha, irrespective of whether there is an alliance between his party and AAP.

In a major boost to the Army's firepower, four indigenously-developed and manufactured Dhanush howitzers would be inducted into the force for deployment on the front lines on March 26.

With Left parties being left out of the RJD-led opposition alliance in Bihar, CPI general secretary Sudhakar Reddy said their understanding was with the jailed RJD supremo Lalu Prasad who had assured them a place in the coalition

The 2019 Lok Sabha election is set to create a new record. For the first time in India's history, voter turnout among women is expected to be higher than that of men. A closer look at their numbers, however, provides a disquieting insight.

One of the key accused in the PNB fraud case, Mehul Choksi, on Friday moved a fresh application in a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Mumbai seeking cancellation of a non-bailable warrant against him.

Weeks after the worst escalation between New Delhi and Islamabad since the 1999 Kargil War, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that PM Narendra Modi sent him greetings on the eve of Pakistan's National Day. Mr Khan, in a tweet, said PM Modi told him that it is time for people of the subcontinent to work together "for a peaceful and prosperous region, in an atmosphere free of terror and violence".

Shiv Sena on Friday declared a list of 21 candidates for the Lok Sabha poll, dropping an MP who hit an Air India staffer in 2017.