Election

Dhenkanal: Three former MLAs contesting from the Dhenkanal Assembly segment (No. 55) are pulling out all stops to wrest the seat as the constituency under Dhenkanal Lok Sabha seat goes to polls April 23, in the third phase. The slogans blared out from public address...

Patana: Electioneering came to an end Sunday evening for the third phase of elections in Keonjhar. Patana Assembly constituency, reserved for ST, is apparently going to witness a tough fight between BJD and BJP. The No. 23 Assembly segment comprises 56 panchayats. Of them, 20...

Baliapal: Ten candidates are in the fray for the Basta Assembly seat in Balasore district. Former minister, Raghunath Mohanty, who had resigned from BJD and joined the saffron camp, is contesting as BJP candidate from this constituency. While the ruling BJD has fielded the sitting...

Keonjhar:  A day after Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Niranjan Patnaik was attacked by stone pelters at Bhandari Bihar in Keonjhar district during a campaign rally, Ramachandrapur police - by the time of fling this report on Monday - have arrested eight of the...

Khandapara: With Phase-I and Phase-II of simultaneous Assembly and Parliament elections over, candidates facing the electorate in Phase-III April 23 are fully geared up. The candidates in Khandapara Assembly seat in Nayagarh district are beating the scorching heat to reach various villages to woo the voters. This...

Kolkata: BJP national president Amit Shah Monday defended the party's decision to nominate Sadhvi Pragya as a Lok Sabha candidate saying the allegations against her are false and the real culprits in the Malegaon blast case have evaded the law. Sadhvi Pragya, who is out...

Kendrapara: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Sunday hit out at Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda, the BJP candidate from Kendrapara Lok Sabha seat, accusing him of promoting his own industries during his tenure as MP. Addressing a poll rally at Rajnagar under the Kendrapara Lok Sabha constituency,...

Thiruvananthapuram: Wayanad, which is in limelight after Rahul Gandhi chose to contest the Lok Sabha elections from there, has its connections with a former British prime minister and a hero of the Battle of Waterloo, who served in the district as a military strategist during...

Shimla: It’s ‘blind love’ for two BJP politician fathers when it comes to supporting their sons in the Lok Sabha elections in Himachal Pradesh. While one ‘lost’ his Cabinet berth owing to his greenhorn Congress politician son who is trying his luck against his own...

Patna: Former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD national vice-president Rabri Devi has accused the BJP of hatching a conspiracy to poison her husband and party supremo Lalu Prasad, a charge dismissed by the saffron party as “baseless”. Prasad, who has been serving jail term in...