Today, voting is taking place in 13 seats of Punjab under Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Voting starts from 7 am and will continue till 6 pm. A total of 328 candidates are in the fray for the 13 Lok Sabha seats of Punjab. A total of 253 candidates contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and 278 in 2019. 466 candidates had filed 598 nomination papers in the state. After scrutiny of papers and return of letters, the total number of candidates remained 328, including 302 male and 26 female candidates.

Serial killer Robert Pickton has died after he was assaulted in prison earlier this month, Quebec provincial police and Correctional Service Canada say. The correctional service says Pickton, an inmate at Port-Cartier Institution in Quebec, died on Friday at the age of 74. It says in a statement that Pickton's next of kin have been notified as well as victims who had registered to be told. It says an investigation is underway into the May 19 assault that involved another inmate. Quebec provincial police spokesman Frédéric Deshaies says Pickton died "in the last few hours." He says police co

Forecasters say British Columbia should prepare for hotter than normal temperatures in June. An outlook from Environment Canada says the first week of June will be cooler than normal across most of B.C. but the rest of the month is likely to feature above-normal temperatures across the province. The longer-term outlook for June to August says there is a high probability of above-normal temperatures across the B.C. Interior and "moderate probabilities" of near-normal temperatures on the coast. June's outlook indicates a probability of below-normal precipitation across the B.C. Interior as the m

The Punjab-Haryana High Court has today issued a notice to the Punjab government, staying the arrest of former Rajya Sabha member and managing director of Ajit newspaper Barjinder Singh Hamdard till July 18. A case of fraud and corruption was registered against Hamdard by the Vigilance Bureau a week ago in connection with the manipulation of funds for the construction of the Jang-e-Azadi Memorial in Jalandhar. Barjinder Singh Hamdard has demanded to transfer this matter to an independent agency like CBI. He had argued that he is being wrongly implicated in this controversy. The hearing of thi

The days of relief for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is out on bail in the Delhi liquor scam case, are about to end. According to the Supreme Court's decision, he will have to surrender before the Tihar Jail administration on June 2. Earlier today, Kejriwal faced the public through a video and tried to make people emotional. He said that I am going to jail to save the country from dictatorship, I am proud of this. CM Kejriwal said, 'Of course, I will not be between you but I will not let any of your work stop. I have taken care of you as my family, now you guys take care of my elderly

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's personal secretary Vibhav Kumar's problem may increase. In a report, quoting sources, it has been said that Sit, who is investigating the case of beating of Aam Aadmi Party's Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal in the CM House, has seen a glimpse of Vibhav Kumar in the CCTV camera and has taken it as evidence in the court. will be presented in On the other hand, Vibhav's lawyers are still claiming that he was not present at the CM House at the time of the incident. Vibhav is currently in police custody and police say he is not cooperating with the investigation

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has attacked General Qamar Javed Bajwa, who was the Chief of Army Staff, he said in an interview that trusting Bajwa was his biggest mistake. According to a Pakistani newspaper, Imran Khan recently gave an interview via letter to journalist Mehdi Hasan, in which he said when asked who he believed to be responsible for his imprisonment, Imran said, 'I am sure that All this has been done by General Bajwa, I do not hold anyone else responsible. In the interview, Imran Khan said that he has been imprisoned in a place where terrorists live and he is bei

A Canadian immigration lawyer says now that Donald Trump is a convicted felon, he is technically barred from crossing the border into Canada. Trump was found guilty today on all 34 counts in his criminal hush money trial, which are punishable by up to four years in prison. Mario Bellissimo says that makes him "criminally inadmissible," and he can't apply to change that until five years after he serves his sentence. However, if Trump is elected United States president in the meantime, exemptions could be made. He would have to show the Immigration Department, or the federal minister, that he ha

This time in Punjab, two big political leaders of Patiala, former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and former Congress state president Navjot Singh Sidhu, were absent from the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. Navjot Sidhu neither appeared on any political platform nor did he ask for votes for any candidate. At the same time, Captain Amarinder did not campaign for the election citing his ill health, but he issued a letter urging the people of the constituency to vote in favor of Praneet Kaur. Navjot Sidhu had left politics as soon as the dates of the Lok Sabha elections were announ