Election

New Delhi: Political parties have spent over Rs 53 crore on digital platforms like Google and Facebook between February and May, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accounting for a lion’s share of the spending. According to Facebook’s Ad Library Report, there were 1.21 lakh...

Patna: Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar questioned Sunday the long-drawn polling in intense heat conditions and suggested general elections should be held in two or three phases. He also said February-March or October-November would be the ideal weather condition for the polling...

Kolkata: An estimated 32.06 per cent of over 1.49 crore electorate exercised Sunday their franchise till 11.00am in nine Lok Sabha seats of West Bengal, amid reports of EVM glitches and stray incidents of violence. Voting is also on for by-elections to four Assembly constituencies...

Shimla: Notwithstanding his failing vision and aching knees, India’s ‘first’ voter Shyam Saran Negi reached Sunday his polling booth in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district to exercise his franchise.  The 102-year-old was given a warm welcome by election staff at the Kalpa booth in Mandi Lok...

Shimla: The world’s highest polling station at 15,256 feet, Tashiganag village in Himachal Pradesh took little than two hours Sunday to climb up to 53 per cent voting, the state’s electoral officer Assistant Chief Electoral Officer Harbans Lal Dhiman, said. There are 49 registered voters...

Bhopal: Two government employees engaged in election duty died in separate incidents in Madhya Pradesh, an official said, Sunday. Garu Singh Chogad, who was deployed at the Jalwat polling booth in Dhar Lok Sabha constituency, died after suffering a heart failure Sunday morning, state’s Chief...

New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) wrote Sunday to the Election Commission (EC) and complained that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the media at Kedarnath shrine was ‘unethical’ and that the coverage of his visit was in ‘gross violation’ of the model code of...

New Delhi: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telegu Desam Party (TDP) leader N Chandrababu Naidu held Sunday a second round of talks with top opposition leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Sharad Pawar, in an apparent bid to rally support for a non-BJP government at the...

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...

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...