Enforcement Directorate conducts raids in Ranchi, recovers unaccounted cash from minister Alam’s aide. Video shows currency in aide’s room. Minister denies info, TV links to his PS. Rs 20 crores counted. Agency caught engineer for scheme irregularities.

SVPP had no visible activity but had received a Rs 55.5 crore in donation when it was raided by tax officials in 2022, according to income-expense details submitted to the Election Commission that year. All three candidates of SVPP have shown nil income in poll affidavits; they do not own any vehicle, and two of them have submitted that they do not even have a house.

The national capital also saw its hottest day of the year, with a maximum temperature of 41.1 degrees Celsius, which was two notches above normal