Top news of the day: About 60% turnout in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections and T.N. registers over 63% voting; Kejriwal being denied his medicines in jail as part of a larger conspiracy, says Atishi, and more
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The Hindu top news of the day April 19, 2024
Lok Sabha Elections 2024, phase 1 voting
A voter turnout of about 60% was recorded in the initial hours of polling on April 19 in phase one of 2024 Lok Sabha electionscovering 102 constituencies across 17 States and four Union Territories amidst sporadic incidents of violence in West Bengal and an IED blast in Chhattisgarh that left a CRPF commandant injured.
Voter turnout in all 39 constituencies in T.N.
Polling began in all the 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu on April 19 in the first phase of the 2024 general elections as the BJP’s ambition to emerge as a force challenging Dravidian parties in the State will be tested. The BJP drew a blank in 2019.
Arvind Kejriwal being denied his medicines in jail as part of a larger conspiracy: Atishi
“It is possibly the first time in independent India’s history that a person in judicial custody is being stopped from taking medicine,” AAP leader Atishi said on April 19, a day after ED claimed in court is eating foods high in sugar, including mangoes and sweets, every day, despite having Type 2 diabetes, in order to raise his blood sugar level “This is not a gangster or a terrorist, but a person who has been elected thrice by the people of Delhi as the Chief Minister,” Ms. Atishi said on April 19
Lok Sabha election | CRPF jawan on poll duty killed in accidental explosion of grenade launcher shell in Chhattisgarh
Members of various farmers’ organisations staged a picketing agitation in front of an office of the Water Resources Department (WRD) in Thanjavur on Thursday urging the State government to take steps to prevent Karnataka from going ahead with its proposal to build a balancing reservoir across the Cauvery at Mekedatu