Election

54.43 per cent exercise their franchise till 5.00pm in Maharashtra polls Mumbai: Altogether 54.53 per cent voters Monday exercised their franchise till 5.00pm in Maharashtra after polling for the 288 Assembly seats began at 7.00am, poll officials said. The Congress-NCP combine is seeking to dislodge...

Mumbai/Thane: The Income Tax (I-T) Department will probe the recovery of Rs 5.34 million in cash from a private residence which was visited under strange circumstances by an undertrial Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislator, Ramesh Kadam, officials said here Saturday. Since the seizure falls under...

New Delhi: The Congress Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for highlighting only abrogation of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir during the assembly polls campaigning in Haryana and Maharashtra where polls are due October 21 and asked him to tell the people...

Satara (Maharashtra): Stunning videos and images of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar addressing a rally here in pouring rain on Friday evening have gone viral on social media and accolades poured on him Saturday. The rally had barely started late on Friday when...

Mumbai: Superstar Salman Khan's bodyguard Shera has formally joined the Shiv Sena Saturday, just days before the Maharashtra Assembly polls. Party leader Aditya Thackeray tied a 'Shiv Bandhan' to Shera and welcomed him in to the Sena. The Shiv Sena took to Twitter Saturday to...

New Delhi: Bad weather prevented Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's helicopter from landing in Delhi Friday, party sources said. Rahul was returning from poll-bound Mahendragarh in Haryana after addressing a rally there. The Congress clarified that Rahul Gandhi's helicopter was forced to abort its landing in...

Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi charged the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party of doing maximum harm to the state and country because of its corruption, here Friday. "However, nobody will be spared, those who destroyed the Indian economy and banking sector for 10 years are either in...

Bhubaneswar:  As the election day draws closer in Bijepur Assembly constituency, the BJD and BJP are missing no opportunities to attack each other. A day after union minister Dharmendra Pradhan asked BJD veteran Prasanna Acharya to explain why the bypoll was enforced on the voters...

Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt has backed Aaditya Thackeray, who is making his debut in electoral politics, and said he hopes the Yuva Sena leader wins by a huge margin as the country needs dynamic young leaders. The 29-year-old Yuva Sena chief, who is the elder...

Bhubaneswar:  Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, BJD president Naveen Patnaik, BJP working president JP Nadda and Union Ministers Smriti Irani, Dharmendra Pradhan will campaign for their party candidates in the Bijepur Assembly by-election. The BJD, Congress and BJP submitted names of...