Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Umesh Sinha said the figure was likely to go up as data was still being collated from various polling stations where people queued up beyond 6 p.m. when the voting was supposed to end.
A person who was coming to Kulalu polling station for voting in Kolnadu village in Bantwala constituency died of cardiac arrest here on Saturday.
A court here on Saturday directed Tihar jail authorities to produce before it, on Sunday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's nephew Vinay Bansal arrested in connection with an alleged scam worth Rs 6 crore in the Public Works Department (PWD).
Many voters sustained injuries when bees attacked on them at a polling booth number 80 and 81 belonging to Putturu assembly constituency at Sri Satyasai Vihara Vidyakendra at Alike near Vittla in the taluk on Saturday.
Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik on Saturday told Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba that the alleged attack on a group of Kashmiris in the national capital involved a local issue and had nothing to do with their origin, an officer said.
Cricketer Rahul Dravid who was selected as the Karnataka Election Commission’s ambassador, exercised his vote at CV Raman Nagar in the city on Saturday.
Congress and BJP workers have reportedly clashed outside a polling station at Hampinagar in the city on Saturday. It is said that the incident happened followed by an alleged assault on a BJP corporator by a Congress worker during the voting.
The deletion of the names of five members of a family from the voters list came to light when they have been to polling station to cast their votes at Kadaba. As a result, they could not vote on Saturday.
Before tying her nuptial knot, a bride came to a polling station and exercised her vote at Kandanakolli in the city on Saturday.
Though the voting process began from 7 am today, only 56 per cent voting was registered till 3 pm in the state.