The highest voter turnout of 87.17 per cent was recorded in Paschim Medinipur district, followed by Purba Medinipur (86.32 per cent), Jhargram (84.73 per cent), Bankura (84.27 per cent) and Purulia (81.77 per cent), said Aariz Aftab, Chief Electoral Officer, West Bengal

India Stock Market Highlights Today: SBI, followed by HCL Tech, Tech Mahindra, Asian Paints, Infosys, Tata Steel, TCS and Reliance Industries were among the top gainers in the Sensex pack. On the other hand, ONGC and Titan were the laggards.

On the sectoral front, barring FMCG and PSU Banks, all the indices ended in green, with metal and realty registering over 2% gains

India Stock Market Highlights Today: HCL Tech, followed by L&T, M&M, Tech Mahindra, Maruti, TCS, Asian Paints, Infosys and HDFC Bank were among the top gainers today. On the other hand, ONGC, Nestle India, SBI, ICICI Bank and IndusInd Bank were among the laggards

India Stock Market Highlights Today: ONGC, followed by NTPC, HDFC, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, PowerGrid and Nestle India were among the top gainer on Sensex pack. On the other hand, TCS, Tech Mahindra, Infosys and Sun Pharma were among the laggards.

The Election Commission has reduced maximum number of campaigners for the recognised parties to 30 while for the unrecognised parties it would be not more than 20 in view of coronavirus pandemic

Finance Ministry sources said that the GST Council with full presence of states and UTs needs, as per the GST Act, only 20 states to pass any resolution, in case voting is required on any issue

Shaktikanta Das said that from February 2019 onward RBI had cut 135 basis points repo rate till the onset of coronavirus to tackle the slowdown in growth

New Lockdown in India live update, Covid-19 guidelines:  In the last 24 hours, 1,076 new cases have been reported, while 377 people have died because of the COVID-2019 infection

Kerala has already directed the police to arrest COVID-19 infected people kept under isolation and home quarantine, if found roaming in public places

Election Results Live: PM Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, union ministers Rajnath Singh and Prakash Javadekar, were among the various political figures who extended their congratulations to Arvind Kejriwall and AAP

Delhi Election Result Time: Counting of votes will start around 8 am on Tuesday. Here's how to check election results online, live stream the Delhi election result coverage, and more

Available information on the influx of \"illegal migrants\" doesn't warrant a nation-wide NPR-NRIC. The CAA 2019 was necessitated by the introduction of \"illegal migrant\" in Citizenship Act of 1955 during the Vajpayee regime in 2003 but it introduced another problem - religion-based citizenship - which has sparked a nation-wide strife

Anti-CAA protests LIVE updates: Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were stopped from entering Meerut to visit the families of victims of protesters

Jharkhand Assembly Election Results 2019: Earlier today, Raghubar Das tendered his resignation from the post of CM to Governor Draupadi Murmu

The governor will also appoint a pro-tem speaker who will administer oath to the newly elected members

Maharashtra Floor Test news: Hours after Devendra Fadnavis submitted his resignation, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari called for a special legislative session on Wednesday at 8 AM

Co-operative sector banks, particularly the urban co-operative banks (UCBs), are falling apart slowly but surely with mounting stressed assets, the full extent of which may not be known

According to a ADR report, most electoral bonds were sold in Mumbai at Rs 1,880 crore, followed by Rs 1,440 crore in Kolkata, Rs 919 crore in New Delhi and Rs 838 crore in Hyderabad among other cities