Election

Pre-poll violence in Jajpur, 1 hurt

Jajpur:  Barely hours before the repoll at booth number 135 in Kalyanpur village under Binjharpur Assembly constituency in this district, pre-poll violence Saturday night has left one seriously injured. The victim has been identified as Ranjit Das of Kalyanpur.  Unidentified miscreants attacked him on his...

EVM glitches mar last phase of polls

New Delhi: Amid reports of EVM glitches, an average of 10-14 per cent polling was recorded in the first two hours of voting Sunday in 59 seats in the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha elections to decide the fate of 918 candidates including...

Re-polling: Slight fall in turnout likely

Baripada: With a few hours left for the re-polling in five booths of Mayurbhanj May 19, polling parties reached the booths by Saturday evening. District Election Officer and Collector Vineet Bhardwaj, returning officer for Bangiriposi Assembly seat  ADM Aboli Narwane, Returning officer for the Baripada...

Turnout poor in Varanasi till 9.00am

Varanasi: The constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi recorded 10.87 per cent polling till 9.00 am. In this constituency, 18.54 lakh electorates will cast their votes in 1,819 polling booths, of which 273 are categorised as ‘critical’. Local administration has set up 145 model booths...

Polling peaceful so far in West Bengal

Kolkata: An estimated 13.41 per cent of the 1,49,63,064 voters have so far exercised their franchise in nine Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal till 9.00am am Sunday, an Election Commission official said. Polling in the first two hours was peaceful, the official informed. “Polling...

Nuns line up to cast their votes Sunday amid tight security at a polling booth in Kolkata

Live updates: Seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha polls

BJP will suffer whitewash in Bihar, UP: Shatrughan Sinha Patna: Actor-turned-politician and Congress leader Shatrughan Sinha expressed confidence Sunday that he would retain the Patna Sahib Lok Sabha seat for the third consecutive term despite a formidable challenge posed by the BJP, which has fielded...

 

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