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National Panchayati Raj Day celebrates the institutionalisation of Panchayati Raj through the 73rd Amendment Act, 1992.

Since 1991, Mangaluru, or the Dakshina Kannada seat, has continuously elected a BJP member to Parliament. This time the BJP has denied a ticket to its three-term MP and former state president Nalin Kumar Kateel and has fielded a young face, Captain Brijesh Chowta. The Congress has fielded Billava Padmaraj, who is a lawyer by profession

14 Seats, 247 Candidates In Fray: Campaigning for 1st Phase of Lok Sabha Polls In Karnataka Ends Today

Hemant Patil of Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena is the incumbent MP here, but the party and its Mahayuti alliance have given the ticket this time to Baburao Kadam Kohalikar. The other top contenders are Nagesh Ashtikar of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) for the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance and Dr BD Chavan of Prakash Ambedkar's Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi

A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta was told by senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Soren, that the high court had reserved its verdict on February 28 on his plea but still no decision has been delivered