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In a move to fight anti-incumbency, four sitting lawmakers have been dropped in the latest BJP list for Maharashtra for the Lok Sabha elections that begin next month. Pune MP Anil Shirole has been dropped and the ticket has now gone to Maharashtra Minister Girish Bapat. In total, six sitting MPs have been dropped.

A total of eight students have been awarded gold medals this year.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a sharp attack at the regional parties as he said it was "ironic and reprehensible" that those who claim to be the followers of socialist political leader Ram Manohar Lohia were making efforts to form an "opportunistic Maha Milawat or adulteration alliances" with the Congress.

The Shiv Sena today said LK Advani would remain the "tallest leader" of the BJP irrespective of his presence in the Lok Sabha elections, two days after the party nominated its chief Amit Shah from Gandhinagar, a seat represented by the BJP veteran.

Mayawati has always been deeply suspicious of Chandrashekhar, half her age and like her, a Jatav. She has repeatedly accused him of being a BJP agent, funded by its ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh or RSS, who should have joined her party instead of founding the Bhim Army if he were serious about Dalit unity and rights.

Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru's death anniversary is observed as Martyrs' Day or Shaheed Diwas.

The Congress has named former Union Minister and senior leader Renuka Chowdhary as its candidate for Khammam Lok Sabha seat in Telangana.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will be the BJP's Lok Sabha candidate from Patna Sahib, the parliamentary constituency of the party's in-house critic Shatrughan Sinha.

Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, the Congress party candidate from Telangana's Chevella Lok Sabha constituency, has declared family assets worth Rs 895 crore, making him the richest politician in both the Telugu states.

Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose today took oath as the first Lokpal or anti-corruption ombudsman of India in the presence of President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.

With the national elections just weeks away, political parties have increased the rallies in a bid to reach out to voters across the country. Congress President Rahul Gandhi will be addressing the Jan Bhawna Rally in Bihar. From Bihar, the Congress leader will fly to West Bengal to hold his first election campaign rally there.

Former Samajwadi Party (SP) MP from Mirzapur, Bal Kunwar Patel, on Friday joined the Congress in the presence of party president Rahul Gandhi and Congress General Secretary for eastern Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

D Aravind, who is the son of TRS Rajya Sabha lawmaker D Srinivas, is set to contest from Nizamabad on the BJP ticket and will face Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's daughter K Kavitha.

As many as six nominations, including from the Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party, were filed on Friday in Lok Sabha seats going to the polls in the first and second phases in Chhattisgarh.

Jet Airways, on the verge of going belly-up, has suspended operations on as many as 13 more international routes till end-April even as it grounded seven more planes due to non-payment of rentals, taking the number of such aircraft to 54.