Election

New Delhi: Joining the ongoing controversy over EVMs, former President Pranab Mukherjee expressed concern Tuesday over the alleged tampering of voters’ verdicts. He stated that the onus of ensuring institutional integrity lies with the Election Commission (EC), which should put all speculation to rest. He...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to entertain a plea challenging the appointment of two retired bureaucrats as observers in West Bengal for the Lok Sabha polls, stating that voting is already over. While Vivek Dubey was appointed as a central police observer for...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court dismissed Tuesday a PIL seeking 100 per cent matching of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during counting of votes May 23 for the Lok Sabha polls. A vacation bench headed by Justice Arun...

Mumbai: A special court here granted Tuesday exemption to the 2008 Malegaon blast case accused Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Prasad Purohit and Sudhakar Chaturvedi from appearing before it this week. When the matter was taken up by the special NIA court, Monday, the three...

New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah will hold a dinner meeting Tuesday with leaders of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). The meeting, which comes two days ahead of the counting of votes of the recently concluded Lok...

Kolkata: The Election Commission has announced re-polling in one polling station under Kolkata North parliamentary constituency Wednesday, according to a notification. The parliamentary constituency voted in the seventh phase May 19. As per the notice, the re-poll will be held in Room no. 1 polling...

New Delhi: Two days ahead of the counting of votes for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, 21 Opposition parties will meet Tuesday here to discuss the possibilities of a non-NDA alliance. The meeting of the 21 opposition parties will be held at the Constitution Club...

New Delhi: Amid reports of new Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) being brought to the strong room in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Monday appealed to the party workers to stay vigil near the strong rooms. In an audio message, Priyanka Gandhi...

Amaravati: A fire broke out at one of the counting centres in Andhra Pradesh's Tirupati town Monday night, police said. The incident occurred at an engineering college on the outskirts of the town where officials had set up tables and made other arrangements for counting...

Kolkata: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu held a meeting with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her residence here Monday to decide on forming a non-BJP government at the Centre in case of a hung verdict, TMC sources said....