Tripura Votes, 4-Way Fight For 60 Assembly Seats
As voting began in the Tripura assembly election, Chief Minister Manik Saha asked people to turn out in big numbers and cast their vote. He said he is confident the BJP would win a second straight term. Hours after unleashing a tax-loaded mini-budget, Pakistan on Wednesday night hike the price of petrol and gas to a historic high in a bid to appease the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for unlocking a critical loan tranche, Geo News reported. The family of a soldier beaten to death in Tamil Nadu has demanded death penalty for his nine assailants. They said Chief Minister MK Stalin should meet them. Though a case has been filed in the matter and nine people, including a DMK councillor, has been arrested, no compensation has been announced and no leader of the ruling DMK has met the family.
