Election

Mumbai: A look at the investment behaviour patterns among the who’s who in national politics contesting the ongoing Lok Sabha elections reveals that most own asset types that are not known to be the most transparent in nature. In all probability, they own far more...

New Delhi: Unemployment remains the leading concern for the people as they are far more worried about economic issues than security, according to the CVOTER-IANS tracker. In a survey carried out April 26, 28.42 per cent of respondents identified unemployment as their main concern. In...

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram Sunday accused the Election Commission of being ‘silent spectator’ to the ‘excesses’ of the BJP and to the utterances of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the poll body has ‘largely failed’ the people of India. The former Union...

Lucknow: Midway through the Lok Sabha elections, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh is caught in a bind. The party has failed to create a plan to reach out to youth voters who now form a sizeable segment of its vote bank. The...

New Delhi: A total of 72 Lok Sabha constituencies spread over nine states, mostly in Hindi heartland, will go to polls in the fourth phase of the elections Monday. An estimated 12.79 crore electorate will be eligible to exercise their franchise in 13 seats each...

New Delhi: A group of 50 farmers from Telangana are contesting as Independents against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi in the ongoing national election. The turmeric farmers from Telangana’s Nizamabad, however, claim that they simply want to highlight their problems by taking...

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

New Delhi: Actor-turned-politician Sunny Deol, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the Gurdaspur parliamentary seat, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Sunday. After his meeting with Deol, Modi shared a photograph of him with Deol and tweeted: "What struck me about Sunny Deol is...

Bhubaneswar:  Out of the 1,121 candidates across parties contesting for the 147 Odisha Assembly seats, 295 have assets worth over Rs 1 crore, an analysis revealed on Sunday. Among the candidates in the fray for the fourth and final phase polls in the state, Congress'...

New Delhi: Hitting back at the AAP, cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir asserted Sunday that he possessed only one voter identity card while adding that the ruling party in Delhi was making baseless allegations against him as it did not have any vision for the people.  Gambhir...