Election

Bhubaneswar:  Independent candidate Bhisma Narayan Nayak, contesting from Bhubaneswar- Ekamra Assembly constituency was stabbed near Garage square, Monday night. According to his supporters, Bhisma was about to cross the road at Garage square when an unidentified miscreant accosted him suddenly and stabbed him twice on...

Thiruvananthapuram: Numerous complaints of malfunctioning of electronic voting machines (EVMs) were reported Tuesday from across Kerala as the state voted to elect 20 Lok Sabha members. The malfunctioning was pointed out by none other than Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan who said that election officials appear...

Khurda: Faulty and dysfunctional EVMs at several booths in Khurdah districts irked the voters, who had turned out in large numbers to cast their votes in the third phase of polling Tuesday in Odisha. Serpentine queues were noticed in a large number of booths where...

New Delhi: The Congress has nominated 2008 Olympic bronze medallist boxer Vijender Singh, from the South Delhi constituency. He will take on BJP’s sitting MP Ramesh Bidhuri and AAP’s Raghav Chadha. “In more than 20 years of my career in boxing I have always made...

Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that the voter ID (identity card) is more powerful than the IED (improvised explosive device) used by terrorists. He was speaking after casting his vote during the single-phase polling for Lok Sabha in his home state Gujarat. After...

Polling officer found hanging in West Bengal’s Buniadpur West Bengal: A polling official was found hanging in his residence at Buniadpur, South Dinajpur, which is part of the Balurghat Lok Sabha constituency. Babulal Murmu allegedly committed suicide Monday night. However, his wife alleged that Murmu...

With over one million likes on his personal Facebook page and Twitter handle, BJD supremo and CM Naveen Patnaik is one of the most followed political figures in the country Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is taking the social media by storm through several videos...

Mumbai: BJP leader Pankaja Munde Monday took the political discourse down a further notch, suggesting that those skeptical about the surgical strikes conducted by the army would be convinced only if the explosives were strapped onto Congress chief Rahul Gandhi. “We conducted the surgical strike...

New Delhi: Polling will be held Tuesday for the third and largest phase of Lok Sabha election in 116 seats, including all constituencies in Gujarat and Kerala, with BJP president Amit Shah, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and several Union ministers among prominent candidates in the...

Nandurba: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday accused the Opposition parties of spreading rumours that reservations will modified if he returns to power. Addressing a poll rally here in north Maharashtra, Modi said he will ensure that the quota quantum is not disturbed. “Till Modi is...