In a recent development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi responded to a viral meme featuring himself and Mamata Banerjee, appreciating the creativity behind it. The meme depicted both leaders dancing, with PM Modi expressing his enjoyment of the humorous content.

Despite sporadic rains in most parts of Karnataka, the 14 segments going to polls today are facing heat wave-like conditions, with maximum temperatures ranging between 38 and 44 degrees Celsius in most districts.

Shanti Bai Marawi, a 33-year-old resident of Bhedrapani, Gourella village under the Korba Lok Sabha constituency in Chhattisgarh, has emerged as a candidate for the upcoming elections despite having zero balance in her bank account.

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra urged people on Tuesday to vote in large numbers in the third phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, asserting that this is an election to protect democracy and the Constitution.

After casting his vote here on Tuesday, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said that the grand old party will register a thumping majority in Karnataka and that there "was no doubt" about it.

Donald Trump is accusing Joe Biden of offering a weak response to antisemitism, wielding the clashes on colleges campuses over the war in Gaza as a campaign issue. But Trump's attacks ignore his own long history of rhetoric that invokes the language of Nazi Germany and plays on stereotypes of Jews and politics.

Two government servants on Lok Sabha poll duty died in Karnataka following heart attacks, sources in the Election Commission said on Tuesday.

Voting for the Shivamogga Lok Sabha election commenced today with an enthusiastic response from voters braving the early morning sun to exercise their democratic rights.