Election

Jajpur: As many as 14, 72,638 voters will cast their votes in the elections to Jajpur Lok Sabha seat and the seven Assembly segments under it Monday. A total of 1,619 polling booths have been set up in the district.  Among them, 105 booths have been...

Balasore: Electioneering was over Saturday evening for the fourth phase of elections to be held Monday in Balasore district. In a few hours, over 18 lakh voters will exercise their franchise to decide the electoral fate of 12 nominees for the Balasore Parliamentary seat and...

Paradip: The Paradip Assembly seat, which goes to polls April 29, witnessed an interesting election campaign as the wives of the three prominent candidates campaigned extensively to garner support for them. The Paradip Assembly segment was carved out in 2009 and is currently held by...

Kantapada: As the Niali Assembly constituency goes to polls today (Monday), voters in Kantapada block will exercise their franchise at 82 booths.   However, out of the 62 booths coming under Gobindpur police limits of Kantapada block 37 booths are hyper-sensitive. Out of the 20...

Bhadrak: State Congress vice president Arya Kumar Gyanendra Sunday accused the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) workers of assaulting him while he was on his way with his friends to procure some food. The incident occurred at Banta square of here. Speaking to Orissa POST about...

Bahraich/Amethi (UP): A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi targeted the opposition over ‘politics of caste’, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Sunday said her party never made personal remarks against the PM and was fighting the ongoing Lok Sabha polls on the issue of development....

Voter turnout in key states at 5pm https://twitter.com/ECISVEEP/status/1122835390870818816 BJP urges EC to deploy central forces in all polling booths of West Bengal West Bengal: The BJP approached the Election Commission Monday complaining that Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers have “hijacked democracy” in West Bengal and creating...

New Delhi: Polling for phase 4 of Lok Sabha elections 2019 will be held April 29 wherein 957 candidates are contesting for 72 seats in nine states. The nine states where polling will take place are Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh...

Bhubaneswar: As the state of Odisha enters into the fourth and final phase of election 2019, political experts and youths have expressed disappointment in the lack of young candidates in the elections. According to the figures available with the CEO's office out of a total...

New Delhi: Over 2.7 lakh paramilitary personnel along with over 20 lakh state police personnel and home guards are on the job for ensuring smooth conduct of the seven-phase Lok Sabha polls in the country. Home Ministry officials said deployment of such a large number...