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Actor-turned-politician Suresh Gopi will seek people's mandate from Thrissur, while Anil Antony, son of veteran Congress leader AK Antony will contest from Pathanamthitta.

The Congress leader embarked on a two-and-a-half-kilometer procession that eventually entered Morena in Madhya Pradesh.

The accused, who was carrying a reward of Rs 2 lakh for his arrest, was named in the charge sheet filed by the NIA in the case.

Delhi has seven Lok Sabha seats. Only Bhojpuri actor-turned-politician Manoj Tiwari is retained from Northeast Delhi in the first list.

The names of Ramesh Bidhuri (South Delhi), Meenakshi Lekhi (New Delhi), Parvesh Sahib Singh (West Delhi) and Dr Harsh Vardhan (Chandni Chowk) were missing from the first list of BJP candidates.

Thirty-seven farmer bodies, which are part of the SKM, held a meeting on Saturday regarding their proposed "mahapanchayat" at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan.

Sinha, who had been a minister in the BJP-led NDA government, said that he would not like to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as he wants to work on climate change.

Foreign Office spokes­person Mum­taz Zahra Baloch in her weekly press address on Friday categorically said that "no country could give directions" to Pakistan, an independent and sovereign nation.

While state-controlled television broadcast images of lines of voters, others across the capital of Tehran saw largely empty polling stations.

The sinking of the Rubymar, which carried a cargo of fertilizer and previously leaked fuel, could cause ecological damage to the Red Sea.