Election

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 Sunday that deployment of such a...

Bhubaneswar:  A total of 332 candidates contesting in the Odisha Assembly polls have criminal cases, with 257 serious and seven convicted, according to the National Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). Nine candidates have declared cases related to murder, 63 attempt to murder,...

Jodhpur: Not long ago, Pakistani Hindus living in Jodhpur held little political sway. However, as time passed and they grew in numbers, the community has emerged as an important vote bank, with manifestos of political parties promising to fulfill their basic needs like water and...

Asansol/ Raniganj (West Bengal): With a halt on illegal mining since the elections were announced, miners who work in hundreds of these high-risk narrow pits to dig out coal for a living have gone jobless. They said Sunday they will opt for NOTA (None of...

Bhubaneswar: Arrangements are in place to ensure free and fair voting in over 10,000 booths in the fourth phase of polls for six Lok Sabha and 41 assembly seats in Odisha Monday, a senior poll official said. Polling will be held in Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak,...

Bhadrak:  Odisha Congress vice president Arya Kumar Gyanendra Sunday accused Biju Janata Dal workers of assaulting him while he was on his way with his friends to procure some food. The incident took place at Banta square of Bhadrak. Speaking to OrissaPOST after the incident,...

New Delhi: Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his stance on caste and his ‘origins as a chaiwala’, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram asked Sunday if the PM considers people a ‘bunch of idiots’ who have suffered memory loss. The former Finance Minister’s scathing...

Kendrapara:  Officials engaged in election duty for the fourth phase election expressed dismay before the EVM Disbursement centre here Saturday as several of them were not provided postal ballots to cast their votes. They also threatened not to receive the EVM kits if they were...

Korei: The BJD candidate in Korei Assembly segment under Jajpur Lok Sabha seat finds himself on a sticky wicket as campaigning came to an end for the fourth phase of elections Saturday. The internal squabbling in the party is increasing with hardly a day left...

Jashipur/Bahalda: With just a day left for the final phase of polls, the BJD received back-to-back jolts in Mayurbhanj district after former Jashipur MLA Kamalakant Nayak and frontline BJD leader Ishan Mishra of Rairangpur left the party and joined the BJP in the last 24...