Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) For Trinamool Congress celebrity candidate Nusrat Jahan, her new stint in politics is just like household work, and she believes she can easily balance her new role with her film career….
Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) Trinamool Congress star Lok Sabha poll candidate Mimi Chakraborty is brimming with enthusiasm for her new role, and says she is “ready with her sneakers on”. Chakraborty on Tuesday became Trinamool’s…
Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) Asansol, the industrial belt in West Bengal close to the Jharkhand border, seems set for a high-profile Lok Sabha fight that is sure to raise the glam quotient after the Trinamool…
Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of planning the election schedule for his convenience, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee here on Tuesday questioned the logic behind the seven-phased elections for 42…
Mumbai, March 12 (IANS) Bharipa Bahujan Mahsangh (BBM) President Prakash Ambedkar on Tuesday called off seat-sharing talks with Congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance and announced that his party would contest Maharashtra’s 48 Lok Sabha seats along…
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) The Congress will fight the Lok Sabha elections on economic issues such as minimum income guarantee scheme, farm loan waiver, jobs and the “flawed” implementation of Goods and Services Tax…
Panaji, March 12 (IANS) The state poll authority on Tuesday directed the police to probe fake news circulating on social media, which claims overseas voters are eligible to vote online for the upcoming Lok Sabha…
Amaravati, March 12 (IANS) The Election Commission was Tuesday urged to stop the release of Telugu movie “Lakshmi’s NTR” on the ground that this could impact the coming Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Andhra…
Imphal, March 12 (IANS) Several politicians and retired government officials in Manipur are in the race for tickets for the Lok Sabha polls. Of the two Lok Sabha seats in the state, one is reserved…
Gandhinagar, March 12 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the BJP-led NDA government will be ousted in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and promised farm loan waiver, minimum income guarantee scheme and a…
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) Telangana’s TRS, Andhra Pradesh’s YSR Congress and Odisha’s BJD are likely to hold the key in government formation after election results of the seven phase Lok Sabha elections are out…
Bengaluru, March 12 (IANS) Karnataka’s ruling coalition allies, the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) and the Congress, are engaged in an intense engagement over the seat-sharing arrangement in the state, particularly in the JD-S stronghold of Mandya….
Pune, March 12 (IANS) A day after Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar opted out of the Lok Sabha elections, fresh pressures mounted on him to reconsider his decision on Tuesday. This time it was…
Subhash Narayan New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) It may not be smooth running for the ruling BJP-led NDA government in the coming elections if one measures electoral fortunes of political formations based on public perception…
Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) Ten companies of Border Security Force (BSF) will reach West Bengal on Friday for deployment in the state ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, an official said here on Tuesday. “Ten…
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) The battle for 2019 goes way beyond Bharatiya Janata Party-versus-Congress contest as the data available for 2014 general election show that the two major contestants rivalled each other only on…
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Election Commission to furnish the data on addition and deletion of voters from electoral rolls in Assam, as revised in January 2017, 2018…
Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) Alleging chartered flights and special helicopters were used by VIPs to carry money for “purchasing voters”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday urged the Election Commission to stop any…
By Milinda Ghosh Roy Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) The charisma of Mamata Banerjee, a well-oiled party machinery spread down to the grassroots, a strong support base among the minorities and a record of achieving thumping…
Ahmedabad/Adalaj (Gandhinagar), March 12 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday expressed confidence that Patidar leader Hardik Patel will not only contest the Lok Sabha polls but also win, soon after the youngster embraced the…