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<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130724124,imgsize-959983,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-13.jpg" alt="Election Commission releases final data: 4.88 crore people voted in Tamil Nadu" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo CHENNAI: After a nine-day wait and just 48 hours before counting, EC released the absolute voter turnout for the April 23 election in Tamil Nadu, confirming that 4,87,98,833 voters (4.88 crore) participated in...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130724107,imgsize-1618233,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-12.jpg" alt="West Bengal elections: Ahead of counting, TMC & BJP spar over EVM security" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo KOLKATA: Ahead of the May 4 counting of votes for the assembly elections, key rivals Trinamool and BJP in Bengal sparred and flagged incidents of ‘lax security and blacked-out CCTV footage’ at...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130724069,imgsize-369084,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-10.jpg" alt="Government notifies FDI changes on China funds" title=" Representative image ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Representative image NEW DELHI: The Centre has notified two crucial changes to foreign direct investment rules — the first relating to flows from neighbouring countries such as China and the second allowing up to 100% investment in insurance business —...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130724046,imgsize-1704710,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-9.jpg" alt="Bargi dam tragedy: MP tourism launched cruise despite high-wind forecast" title=" Authorities said the search would go on till all passengers were accounted for ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Authorities said the search would go on till all passengers were accounted for JABALPUR/BHOPAL: Ignored wind warnings came under sharp scrutiny after the death toll in...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130724034,imgsize-988160,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-8.jpg" alt="India successfully conducts 2nd test of long-range hypersonic anti-ship missile with 1500km range, 10 Mach speed off Odisha coast" title=" India successfully conducts 2nd test of long-range hypersonic anti-ship missile with 1500km range, 10 Mach speed off Odisha coast ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> India successfully conducts 2nd test of long-range hypersonic anti-ship missile with...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130723924,imgsize-1491018,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-7.jpg" alt="West Bengal polls: Election Commission scraps Falta election, orders repolling on May 21" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo Bengal’s electoral outcome will now be decided on 293 seats after EC cancelled Saturday the April 29 polling in south Kolkata’s Falta constituency, citing “electoral offences and subversion of the democratic process”.A...

Representative Image Royal Sovereign International Inc, a New Jersey company that sold office and home electronic appliances, has been recently sentenced to pay $395,786 in restitution to victims and a criminal fine of $8 million for failing to report to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) dangerously defective Air Conditioners (ACs) allegedly linked to...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130724078,imgsize-1269007,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72/untitled-design-11.jpg" alt="Jaipur court grants divorce, cites wife’s social media conduct as ‘mental cruelty’" title=" AI image ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> JAIPUR: A family court in Jaipur has granted divorce to a man and held that objectionable social media activity by his wife amounted to mental cruelty.“The ruling highlights that social media conduct and online behaviour...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130723814,imgsize-31240,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/niti-aayog.jpg" alt="2 academics to be part of Niti Aayog" title=" The Bretton Woods system of monetary management had established rules for commercial relations among the US, Canada, Western European nations, Australia and 44 other countries. ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> The Bretton Woods system of monetary management had established rules for commercial relations among the US,...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130723758,imgsize-1652555,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-6.jpg" alt="Why the biggest ‘winners’ in these assembly elections may not even be political parties" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo NEW DELHI: When the assembly election results are declared on Monday, at least $26 million — almost Rs 247 crore — will be paid out to those who managed to predict...