New Delhi: A set of Lok Sabha seats which are expected to be closely contested is turning out to be the big variable ahead of the counting of votes Thursday. These comprise at least 78 seats where the gap in vote share is likely to...
Balasore: After exit-polls by various media groups were out, political parties were tense while the district administration has gone overdrive by taking various measures for peaceful counting of votes in Balasore. The votes will be counted from 7 AM May 23 for Assembly and Parliamentary...
New Delhi: Counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections, in which over 8,000 candidates were in the fray for 542 seats, will begin at 8.00 am Thursday and results are expected only by late evening due to tallying of voter verified paper audit trail...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley looks set to retain his post if Prime Minister Narendra Modi wins a second term as expected when results come Thursday. But if his health worsens, Railways and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal could take over. Whoever holds the job,...
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government is planning to reopen an old murder case against BJP candidate Pragya Singh Thakur, a day after exit polls predicted a victory for her from Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency. The Congress-led government in the state will seek a legal opinion...
Lucknow: Amid the Opposition's concerns about voting machines just ahead of the counting of votes in the national election Thursday, allegations have surfaced of electronic voting machines being tampered with in parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab and Haryana, leading to protests outside voting machine...
New Delhi: Leaders of as many as 22 opposition parties met the Election Commission (EC) Tuesday and demanded verification of VVPAT slips of randomly-selected polling stations before the counting of the votes polled in the just-concluded Lok Sabha election begins May 23 They also demanded...
New Delhi: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who joined active politics just ahead of the Lok Sabha elections and was entrusted the charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, failed to impress the electorate enough to turn the tide in favour of her party, if the exit polls are...
New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath seems to be in for big trouble. After IT raids on his aides last month, the BJP in Uttar Pradesh is initiating a probe against renowned IMT Institute run by the Congress stalwart’s family. Recently his nephew...
New Delhi: A Hindu temple on a disputed site, life in jail for killing cows and ending the autonomy of India’s only Muslim-majority state are some demands Hindu groups plan to push Prime Minister Narendra Modi on if he wins the general election as...
With Arvind Kejriwal now out on bail and the no-show in the Haryana assembly elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)...
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The already strained ties between India and Canada escalated to a full blown diplomatic row 14 October, as both countries...
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A new government has come to Jammu and Kashmir after its first election in 10 years, shifting some powers from...
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The government has decided to extend the term of RBI Deputy Governor M Rajeshwar Rao for another year, until October...
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