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Voters across the 95 Parliamentary constituencies cast their votes on April 18 in the second phase of the 17th general election. These 95 constituencies are spread across the 12 states and 1 UT .  Total turnout in second phase is  69.04% .  15 crore 52 lakh 49 thousand eligible  voters were there in this phase. More than  1.76 lakh  polling stations were constituted and total number of candidates were  1611 . Manipur  witnessed highest  81.09%  voting   followed by   West Bengal ( 80.72 % ) ,  Assam ( 78.74% ) ,  Puducherry( 78.54% ) . Polling on two constituencies were deferred. One was Tamil Nadu's Vellore seat and the other one was Tripura's Tripura East seat. In Tamil Nadu simultaneous by polls were held on 18 assembly constituencies and the   an average of 71.62% voters turned out to exercise their franchise. Seizures worth Rs 2632.73 crore were made by the election commission. Rs 69...

As per the data released by Ministry of Commerce and Industry and published by PIB (Press Information Bureau) t he annual rate of inflation, based on monthly WPI (Wholesale Price Index), stood at 3.18% (provisional) for the month of March, 2019 (over March, 2018) as compared to 2.93% (provisional) for the previous month and 2.74% during the corresponding month of the previous year.  Prices of vegetables rose 28% compared to previous month. However Onion price contracted 31.3% and Potato price contracted 41.95% . The movement of the index for the various commodity groups is summarized below:- PRIMARY ARTICLES  (Weight 22.62%):-  The index for this major group rose by 0.4 percent. The index for ‘ Food Articles ’ group rose by 0.9 percent  from the previous month due to higher price of peas/chawali (7%), fruits & vegetables (6%), maize and jowar (3% each), bajra (2%) and masur (1%).   However, the price of fish-marine (6%), egg (5%), gra...

Voters across the 91 Parliamentary constituencies cast their votes on April 11 in the first of the 17th general election. These 91 constituencies are spread across the 20 states/UTs. Below chart shows the voting percent for 2019 and 2014 elections. Total turnout in first phase is 69.43% . 14 crore 20 lakh 54 thousand eligible  voters were there in first phase.  1.70 lakh polling stations were constituted and total number of candidates were  1279 . Laksadweep witnessed highest 86.78%  voting followed by Manipur ( 84.56% ), West Bengal ( 83.79% ), Tripura ( 83.26% ), Nagaland ( 83.12% ). State Seats Polled/Total Seats Voting Percentage (2019) Voting Percentage (2014) Uttar Pradesh 8/80 63.88% 65.60% Maharashtra 7/48 61.81% 63.80% Andhra Pradesh 25/25 79.05% 78.30% Telangana 17/17 62.69% 68.80% Bihar 4/40 52.86% ...