Varanasi: As people of this holy city voted on Sunday in the last phase of the Lok Sabha 2019 elections, former MP and veteran BJP leader Murali Manohar Joshi said he is nobody to bless Narendra Modi, the party's candidate from this seat, as the prime minister has got blessings of the people here.

Mangaluru: In a bid to mitigate water situation in the City, 15 new borewells will be sunk across Mangaluru. Out of 15 borewells permitted, work on six borewells has been completed and water yield from four of them is good, said district in-charge minister UT Khader.

New Delhi: Political parties have spent over Rs 53 crore on digital platforms like Google and Facebook between February and May, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accounting for a lion's share of the spending.

Kolkata: Dubbing exit polls as "gossip", West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said she doesn't trust such surveys, as the "game plan" is to use them for "manipulation" of EVMs.

Mumbai: Former FIFA referee Shivappa Shetty died here on Sunday at the age of 86.

Mangaluru: There are no revolutionaries like Pajavara Shree. Pajavara Shree has been giving statements about the construction of Ram Mandi. Srikrishna Mutt is the center of communalism, said journalist, thinker Dinesh Amin Mattu.

Amaravati(AP): Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu Sunday mocked at the exit polls, saying they were not exact polls.

New Delhi: Nearly 61 per cent voters turned out to cast their vote on Sunday in the seventh and the final phase of the Lok Sabha election held in 59 constituencies across eight states and Union Territories.