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The bodies of two Indian mountaineers, who died in Nepal due to high altitude sickness near the summit of Mount Kanchenjunga during an expedition to the world's third tallest peak, have been recovered and flown to Kathmandu, officials said in the Nepali capital on Sunday.

Decked in his wedding attire, bridegroom reached the polling booth to a pleasant surprise of election officials, security personnel and fellow voters in the queue and cast his votes.

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh today said that his cabinet minister, Navjot Singh Sidhu, "probably" wants to replace him as the head of the state government. His remark comes a day after Mr Sidhu said he firmly stands by his wife in a war of words with the Chief Minister over being denied a party ticket in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu today claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Kedarnath shrine in Uttarakhand on Saturday was a violation of the poll code, and asked the Election Commission to ensure that "continuous telecast of his private activities" is stopped with immediate effect.

Bengal's BJP candidate Anupam Hazra has accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of placing a special mark against its election symbol in the Electronic Voting Machine to draw the voters' eye.

Mayawati will meet with Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi tomorrow in what is seen as a significant outreach after the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief carried out an acrimonious campaign that was unsparing of the Congress.

Voting in one of India's most acrimonious elections in decades has endedafter seven long rounds over a month-and-a-half. The results will be declared on Thursday, May 23, but before that, exit polls will attempt to predict how Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling BJP, Rahul Gandhi's Congress, their allies and other parties are likely to score.

As the people of Varanasi voted on Sunday in the last phase of the Lok Sabha 2019 elections, former Lok Sabha lawmaker and veteran BJP leader Murali Manohar Joshi said he is nobody to bless Narendra Modi, the party's candidate from this seat, as the Prime Minister has got blessings of the people.

The marathon Lok Sabha elections of 2019 concluded today after seven phases of voting. On May 23, when the votes are counted, the election results will determine the next government at the Centre. A poll of polls will predict which party is likely to win the mammoth elections.

Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan, who had sparked a row over his "India's first extremist a Hindu" remark for Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse, today spoke about the 'Father of The Nation, calling him a ''superstar''.

The Trinamool Congress's complaint to the Election Commission against Prime Minister Narendra Modi that his "highly televised" Kedarnath visit was a violation of Model Code of Conduct, has prompted Union Minister Babul Supriyo's clarification in which he has compared PM's popularity with that of iconic cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, saying media coverage depends on the importance of the person.

Shiv Sena leader and the party's youth wing chief Aditya Thackeray has argued in a new book that Hindutva is one of the ideologies of Shiv Sena, but it is different from "BJP's Hindutva".

As voting ends in the seventh and last phase of national election, voters across the country await the final results. The counting of vote will start on May 23. Before the results, pollsters put out their exit polls, which are an indicator of the Lok Sabha results.

Actor-turned-politician Moon Moon Sen, a Trinamool Congress candidate for the national election, was again accused of making a comment that undermined the violence in Bengal on the last day of voting for the national election on Sunday. "This is a tiny bit of violence," Moon Moon Sen said as she responded to a question on the vandalism of a statue of iconic 19th century reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar during clashes in Kolkata at BJP president Amit Shah's roadshow last week.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today offered prayers at Badrinath temple in the upper reaches of Uttarakhand, a day after he spent hours meditating inside a cave in Kedarnath in the hill state.