Election

Baripada: Mayurbhanj district goes to the polls April 29 in the fourth phase of elections. As polling date approaches the campaign here attains a feverish pitch with the BJD, BJP and the JMM (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha) organising numerous meetings. The three major parties have been...

Mumbai: Urmila Matondkar,one of the leading heroines in the Hindi film industry in the 1990s has recently joined the Congress and has been nominated to contest from the Mumbai North Lok Sabha constituency. She has said that since her entry into politics she has faced...

Balasore:   A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a personal attack on BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik and called for his ouster, Odisha Chief Minister Patnaik warned voters to be skeptical of Modi. Addressing a campaign rally in Jaleswar under Balasore district Wednesday, the Chief...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala witnessed a heavy polling of 77.68 per cent, the highest in 30 years, in the 20 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state, where the ruling LDF and the opposition UDF put up a fierce fight to garner maximum seats. The strength of the...

Begusarai (Bihar): CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury Tuesday slammed the Narendra Modi government at the Centre over "job crisis" and accused it of trying to divert public attention by "repeatedly harping on the valour of the armed forces". "The NDA government is responsible for the...

Bhubaneswar:  Re-polling will be held in nine booths in Odisha Thursday April 25, Chief Electoral Officer Surendra kumar said here Tuesday. The Election Commission of India has ordered re-polling in nine booths as per the recommendations of the Chief Electoral Officer. Election to these booths...

Begusarai (Bihar): Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav Tuesday deplored the repeated mention of Balakot air strikes at election rallies by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and questioned the Election Commission's "reluctance" to take cognisance of it. The renowned psephologist, who was a founding member of the...

New Delhi: With an annual income of over Rs 12 crore, cricketer-turned-politican Gautam Gambhir is among the richest of all the candidates in fray for the Lok Sabha election in Delhi. Gambhir, who was nominated by the BJP in East Delhi against AAP's Atishi, has...

New Delhi: Narendra Modi continues to be the first choice for the Prime Ministership staying ahead of his nearest rival Rahul Gandhi by leaps and bounds, according to the latest finding of the CVOTER-IANS tracker. A survey conducted on April 19 shows that Modi was...

New Delhi: A high voter turnout was recorded in the third and largest phase of Lok Sabha elections Tuesday covering 116 constituencies amid complaints of EVM malfunctioning in many states and killing of a man outside a booth in West Bengal. Election Commission officials in...