oppn parties As counting begins, BJP takes early lead in UP and AAP is ahead in Punjab but Congress is not too far behind while it is neck to neck in Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur

News Snippets

  • 327 judge posts lie vacant in 25 HCs, total pendency of cases rises to 5.1cr in all HCs
  • Ministry of External Affairs says the Washington Post report on the involvement of RAW officials in the plot to kill Sikh separatist G S Pannum was "unwarranted"
  • Calcutta HC allows a couple (husband is 59, over the age of 55 allowed in the ARTR Act) to go for a child through assisted reproductive technology. The couple had lost their 19-year-old son to suicide
  • Supreme Court asks ED why they arrested Arvind Kejriwal just before the LS elections
  • JD(S) suspends Prajwal Revanna over sex scandal, Karnataka SIT summons Prajwal and his father HD Revanna for questioning
  • Raj Babbar gets Congress nomination for LS from Gurgaon
  • Eastern India is suffering intense heat wave, at 43 degrees Celcius, the temperature in Kolkata on Tuesday was close to all-time high recorded 100 years ago
  • RBI disclosed that the share of industry in bank credit shrunk to 23% by March 2024
  • At 5.2%,core sector growth slows in March. It was 7.1% in February
  • 1.3cr investor accounts put on hold due to incomplete KYC, have to be updated with PA||N and Aadhar
  • Godrej family splits into two: Adi and Nadir get 5 listed companies and Jamshyd and Smita get Godrej & Boyce with real estate still to be divided
  • Stocks snap winning run on Tuesday: Sensex sheds 188 points to 74482 and Nifty 38 points to 22604
  • Uber Cup badminton: Indians lose 0-5 to China
  • T20 World Cup Team: K L Rahul misses the bus as selectors put faith in Pant and Samson. Yuzvendra Chahal makes a comeback
  • IPL: Lucknow beat Mumbai by 4 wickets as Marcus Stoinis shines after bowlers restrict Mumbai to just 144
India's T20 World Cup squad announced - Rohit Sharma to captain with Hardik Pandya as deputy. Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant and Sanju Samson included but K L Rahul misses the bus. Yuzvendra Chahal recalled while star finisher Rinku Singh and Shubman Gill named as reserves