Amreli (Gujarat), April 18 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday claimed that the NDA government has restricted terrorist activities to only “two-and-a-half” districts in Jammu and Kashmir while not a single bomb blast was…
Bhubaneswar, April 18 (IANS) The second phase of polling in five Lok Sabha and 35 Assembly constituencies in Odisha recorded 64 per cent voter turnout on Thursday, said state’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Surendra Kumar….
Malda (West Bengal), April 18 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday vowed to stop the BJP from implementing the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Bengal and said her party will ensure…
Chennai, April 18 (IANS) Curtains came down on polling in 37 of 38 Lok Sabha and 18 Assembly constituencies, where by-elections were held on Thursday, at 6 p.m. As many as 384 faulty electronic voting…
Mumbai, April 18 (IANS) Maharashtra recorded a moderate voter turnout with around 57 per cent voting recorded till 5 p.m for the 10 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state, Election Commission (EC) officials said. The…
Panaji, April 18 (IANS) Fish free of formalim, resumption of mining operations in a sustainable manner and lobbying in the Parliament for special status to Goa are the three key promises made by the Congress…
Agartala, April 18 (IANS) The Election Commission (EC) will file FIRs against presiding officers and political activists who indulged in malpractices during the first phase of polling in Tripura West Lok Sabha constituency on April…
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, April 18 (IANS) An initiative by the Congress party in-charge for Haryana, Ghulam Nabi Azad, backed by a firm message from the high command to the highly factionalised party leadership in…
Bengaluru, April 18 (IANS) Close to 400 of the 30,164 polling stations in the 14 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka where voting was held on Thursday were staffed exclusively by women, an official said on…
Kolkata, April 18 (IANS) Out of the 61 candidates across parties contesting from the five West Bengal seats — Balurghat, Jangipur, Murshidabad, Malda Uttar (North) and Malda Dakshin (South) — in the third phase of…
Chennai, April 18 (IANS) The DMK on Thursday complained to the Election Commission that the ruling AIADMK and its allies planned to capture polling booths in Tamil Nadu. In a complaint to the Chief Electoral…
Panaji, April 18 (IANS) Former Education Minister Atanasio Monserrate, accused of raping a minor girl, on Thursday joined the Congress. He is likely to be fielded from Panaji in the May 19 Assembly by-election against…
Lucknow, April 18 (IANS) The BJP and the BSP on Thursday traded allegations that some people wearing ‘burqa (veil) were indulging in fake voting in each others favour in the Amroha Lok Sabha constituency of…
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) The Election Commission on Thursday warned Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi against “using references to the defence forces for political propaganda” in future after his “Modiji ki sena” (Prime Minister…
Bhopal, April 18 (IANS) BJP candidate from Bhopal Sadhvi Pragya Thakur on Thursday accused the Congress of being anti-Hindu and said the party harassed a woman by linking Hindus with terrorism. Thakur is an accused…
Kolkata, April 18 (IANS) The elections in West Bengal have so far been fair and peaceful, said Ajay V Nayak, special observer appointed by the Election Commission of India here on Thursday. “So far the…
Amta (West Bengal), April 18 (IANS) Union Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said India would be freed from poverty, the day it got rid of the Congress. Referring to late Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and…
Bengaluru, April 18 (IANS) Unfazed by the summer heat and dust, voters turned out in large numbers post-noon to register 38.4 per cent average polling till 3:00 p.m. in Karnataka’s 14 Lok Sabha constituencies, an…
Siliguri, April 18 (IANS) Over 51 per cent of the electorate cast their votes in the three northern West Bengal constituencies in the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday, amid several incidents…
Azamgarh, April 18 (IANS) Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday filed his nomination papers from Azamgarh. Akhilesh Yadav, who arrived here in the morning, reached the Collectorate…