Last Updated: December 01, 2023, 13:20 IST
School managements alerted the police, following which teams of sniffer dogs and Bomb Detection & Disposal Squad were sent to the schools that received the email threat. (Representative image/Getty Images)
Top stories this afternoon: Odisha Deadly Accident: Bodies of 8 Deceased, 7 Injured ‘Scattered Along Road’ in Keonjhar | Details; Exit Polls: BJP’s Key Meet Today on ‘Probable Election Results’, Some Parties Begin Celebration and more latest news
Bomb Threat Across 44 Schools in Bengaluru, Searches on; Email Likely a Hoax, Says Top Cop
Around 44 schools across Bengaluru city received an email early on Friday morning claiming there were “explosive devices on the school grounds”. Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda told News18 that prima facie it looks like a hoax mail, adding that police personnel have spanned across the city to check every school mentioned and secure them. READ MORE
‘India Only Wants to Probe Why Their Hitman Couldn’t Kill Me’: Rattled Pannun Threatens Govt Again
India will kill me, but I don’t fear death, Sikhs for Justice founder Gurpatwant Singh Pannun said as he mocked the government’s claim that it was looking into the assassination plots being hatched to target the Khalistani sympathiser. READ MORE
Resort Politics Heats Up? Plan to Shift Telangana Cong MLAs to B’luru Amid ‘Sunday Success’ Forecast
With most exit polls giving a clear edge to Congress over other parties, including the ruling Bharatiya Rashtra Samiti (BRS), in the recently concluded Telangana Assembly polls, the high command of the grand old party is likely to relocate its MLAs to another city to prevent poaching in case of a tight finish on December 3, when the election results will come out. READ MORE
Exit Polls: BJP’s Key Meet Today on ‘Probable Election Results’, Some Parties Begin Celebration
Exit poll results for all five states in the 2023 assembly elections – Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, and Mizoram – are out with predictions of BJP and Congress each winning two states. A key meeting of BJP’s General Secretaries on ‘probable election results’ will be held at the party headquarters in New Delhi later in the day. READ MORE
Resort Owner Memes Win Internet as Exit Polls Show Close Race in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana
On Thursday, a majority of exit polls anticipated a Congress lead in Chhattisgarh and Telangana while indicating an advantageous position for the BJP in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan for the 2023 Vidhan Sabha (Assembly) elections conducted from November 7-30 across the five states. Mizoram, on the other hand, saw most polls forecasting a hung House, suggesting that the ruling Mizo National Front might fall short of the halfway mark, along with its main contender, the Zoram People’s Movement. READ MORE
Odisha Deadly Accident: Bodies of 8 Deceased, 7 Injured ‘Scattered Along Road’ in Keonjhar | Details
A minibus rammed into a parked truck from behind leaving eight people from two families dead and several others injured in Odisha’s Keonjhar, early on Friday morning. The impact of the collision was such that the bodies of the deceased and the injured were scattered along the road. READ MORE
Animal FIRST Review Out: Ranbir Kapoor Gives Goosebumps in One of the Greatest Bollywood Films
Animal, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Rashmika Mandanna, Anil Kapoor and Bobby Deol, has finally hit the theatres and the first reactions have already started coming in on social media. The audience seems highly impressed by Ranbir’s performance in Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal. The early reactions are largely positive online, with netizens showering immense praise on Ranbir and declaring the movie “mega blockbuster”. READ MORE