Pudu GP elections: big win for Congress-backed candidates
Bantwal: Congress-backed candidates registered a big win in Pudu grama panchayat by-polls held on Sunday.
In total 34 seats, Congress backed candidates won 27 seats; BJP bagged six seats whereas SDPI managed to win one seat.
By-polls were held on Sunday where 81 candidates had contested in 34 seats of 10 wards of the Pudu gram panchayat.
Congress party's local leaders and workers celebrated the victory in front of Mini Vidhana Soudha.
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Death toll from Israeli strikes in northeast Lebanon rises from 8 to 24, Lebanese news agency says
Deir al-Balah, Nov 1: Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 24 people in northeastern Lebanon, the country's news agency said, raising the death toll from eight there.
It was the latest deadly toll in the area since the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated last month.
Israel's military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah's military infrastructure.
Lebanon's state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country's northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted house.
Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region in Baalbek-Hermel region, said that 60,000 people have already fled their homes in the area due to Israeli bombardment.
