Telangana

With voters staying away from voting, the polling staff and agents had to sit idle for almost entire day. Till last reports came in, hardly five to 10 votes were polled in the booth, according to reports.

While Tamil Nadu led the chart with 99.84 pass percentage, Puducherry followed with 99.81, Kerala with 99.79, Andhra Pradesh with 99.66 while Telangana took the fifth position with 99.55 pass percentage.

For the Class XII examinations, a total of 8,337 students, i.e., 4,433 boys and 3,904 girls, appeared of whom 8,266 students were declared as pass. The pass percentage among boys from the State was 98.85 while it was 99.49 among the girls.

Three chartered flights were scheduled on Monday from Hyderabad to Madinah and pilgrims from different parts of the State were set to travel.

TPCC senior vice president G Niranjan said BJP Malkajgiri candidate Etala Rajender cast his vote at Gudur village in the constituency.

Polling which began at 7 am ended 6 pm, barring a few places where it concluded early.

Instead of directly going into the booth and voting, Muzammil Khan stood in the queue like a common voter and cast his vote. Other voters were surprised seeing the Collector standing in queue along with them.

Owing to the stigma over being treated as second grade citizens by many, transgender persons earlier would not come forward to vote or even enroll their names in the electoral rolls.

In the remote Mankapur village in Bazarhathnoor mandal, villagers stood away from voting demanding a road to the village.

Jangaon: Tension prevailed for some time in Ganugapahad village after the police lathi charge people who came to a booth to cast their vote on Monday. The villagers staged a protest against the high-handed behaviour of the police and demanded the government to take action against the erring officials. However, the police refuted the allegations […]

Almost all the new voters came to the polling stations along with either their family members or friends.

In Telangana, Zahirabad recorded the highest turnout of 63.96 per cent, followed by 63.67 per cent in Khammam, and 62.44 per cent in Nalgonda.

Addressing his first election meeting in the constituency after his nomination, Gandhi said he was contesting the Lok Sabha election from the seat because his family has deep links with the people here.

Pointing out that the Congress party had secured a vote percentage of 39.5 per cent in the Assembly elections, he said the party would improve it in the Lok Sabha elections

He is said to have collapsed while on duty and was rushed to a hospital for treatment and doctors declared him dead following cardiac arrest.

According to reports, an RTC Garuda bus coming from Hyderabad rammed the mobile tiffin centre near the HP petrol station

Kodangal Legislative Assembly is part of Mahabubnagar Lok Sabha constituency

Former Telangana CM Speaks to Media After Voting in Siddipet's Chintamadaka Village

Electors from all walks of life formed serpentine queue lines from early morning and exercised their franchise. Adilabad Lok Sabha segment saw 13.22 percent of voting by 9 am, according to information provided by officials.

Candidates, MLAs, other public representatives, government officials and others exercised their votes.

There were complaints of EVMs developing snags at Sri Sai Public School 243 number polling booth under Uppal constituency. Due to disruption in power supply at few places in Kumram Bheem Asifabad, the polling is continuing very slowly, according to reports.

After the mock polling at 5:30 am, the actual polling began at 7 am, an official said. According to official sources, a polling percentage of 9.51 was recorded in the first hour.

Chintamadaka Village in Siddipet District Falls Under Medak Lok Sabha Constituency.

Harish Rao drove the battery car along with Venkatrami Reddy, Dubbak MLA Kotha Prabhakar Reddy, and others.