Election

Kevadiya/Bodeli (Guj): They got a helipad, a four-lane road and many headlines with the ‘Statue of Unity’, billed as the world's largest, but real development has bypassed them with water scarcity, unemployment and inadequate healthcare making life a daily struggle for survival, say many tribals...

Rampur (UP): “Am I a nachne wali, am I an amrapali,” BJP candidate Jaya Prada asked at a rally, her question referencing SP leader’s Azam Khan’s derogatory remark about her as a dancing girl and testimony to how the electoral contest here has become more...

Raipur: Polling will be held in seven Lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh in the third and last phase of Lok Sabha elections in the state Tuesday, officials said. As many as 123 candidates are in the fray. Around 60,000 security personnel, including paramilitary and state...

Bhubaneswar:  The fight for the Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha constituency is between a retired police officer and a former IAS officer. One of them is referred to as Odia ’pua’ (son) and the other as ‘bohu’ (daughter-in-law). Ironically, the son of Odisha, BJD's Arup Patnaik, has...

Panaji: Polling for two Lok Sabha seats and bypoll for three state Assembly seats in Goa will be held in a single phase Tuesday, election officials said Monday. Over 1,600 polling booths have been set up for the elections in North Goa and South Goa...

Bhubaneswar: The BJD’s Pipli candidate, Pradeep Maharathy, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in an attack on a poll panel’s flying squad in his farmhouse Sunday night, was sent to jail Monday evening even as his bail plea will be heard April 24. Maharathy...

New Delhi: The Election Commission Monday submitted its detailed report to the Supreme Court on the biopic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi took the EC's report on Modi's biopic and asked the poll panel to supply a...

Pimpalgaon: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday said his government took bold steps to counter terror attacks in contrast to the ‘craven’ approach adopted by the earlier Congress-led regimes while dealing with them. Modi's remarks at a poll rally here in Nashik district of Maharashtra came...

Uluberia (WB): Lashing out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly running a "mafia raj" in the state, BJP president Monday claimed that the state has topped the chart in cow smuggling and become a safe haven for infiltrators. Urging the people to...

Begusarai: Supporters of CPI candidate from Bihar's Begusarai Lok Sabha seat Kanhaiya Kumar and a group of locals clashed Sunday, after the former JNU students' union president was shown black flags here during a roadshow, police said. The incident occurred when more than a dozen...