Jammu, April 11 (IANS) An overall 56 per cent of the votes were cast in Jammu and Kashmir’s Jammu and Baramulla Lok Sabha constituencies on Thursday and the poll process ended peacefully, Chief Electoral Officer…
Hyderabad, April 11 (IANS) Apathy of voters marked the polling for Lok Sabha constituencies in Hyderabad as the state capital recorded less than 40 per cent polling. Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency recorded the lowest polling…
New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) About 56 per cent turnout was recorded in Chhatisgarh’s Bastar Lok Sabha constituency on Thursday with the Shamgiri polling booth, where the Maoist attack two days ago left a BJP…
Mandi, April 11 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Thursday took on former Telecom Minister Sukh Ram of the Congress by saying “for him family is supreme” and also told Power Minister…
Meerut, April 11 (IANS) The Election Commission’s ‘Voter Helpline’ mobile app came to the rescue of many in UP’s Meerut who found their names missing from the voter list. The app, launched in February, helped…
Dehradun, April 11 (IANS) At least 58 per cent of Uttarakhand’s 78.56 lakh voters cast their votes to seal the fate of 52 candidates in the fray for the hill state’s five Lok Sabha constituencies…
Imphal, April 11 (IANS) The voting in the reserved Manipur Outer Lok Sabha constituency ended on Thursday with over 75 per cent of the voters exercising their franchise and without any major incident, officials said….
Patna, April 11 (IANS) Despite several villages boycotting polls in the four Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar on development issues, around 53 per cent voting was recorded amid few incidents of clashes and malfunctioning of…
Bengaluru, April 11 (IANS) Congress candidate Rizwan Arshad for the Bangalore Central Lok Sabha seat on Thursday condemned the day-long Income-Tax raids conducted at his office and some of his associates across the city. “The…
Panaji, April 11 (IANS) Wholesale and retail liquor dealers in poll-bound Goa are shutting outlets due to harassment by “over-enthusiastic” excise officials, Dattaprasad Naik, President of the All Goa Liquor Traders’ Association, said here on…
Ghaziabad, April 11 (IANS) Soon after polling started here on Thursday, a number of youths were seen queued at the booth to cast their first vote in the parliamentary elections. Even the soaring temperature could…
Ghaziabad, April 11 (IANS) Soon after polling started here on Thursday, a number of youths were seen queued at the booth to cast their first vote in the parliamentary elections. Even the soaring temperature could…
Guwahati, April 11 (IANS) Five Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam that polled on Thursday saw a high voter turnout despite growing protests against the BJP-led government’s move to pass the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016….
Aizawl/Agartala, April 11 (IANS) Over 62 per cent of the 7,87,777 electorate cast their votes on Thursday for the lone Lok Sabha seat in Mizoram under heavy security cover, a top official said. The state’s…
Jammu/Srinagar, April 11 (IANS) Polling in Jammu and Baramulla Lok seats of Jammu and Kashmir ended on Thursday amid stray incidents of violence, some incidents of EVM malfunction and alleged misconduct by a security man…
Agartala, April 11 (IANS) Over 78 per cent of the total of 13,47,381 electorates voted on Thursday for the first phase of balloting in West Tripura parliamentary seat in Tripura, officials said. A poll official…
Kohima, April 11 (IANS) Voting in the lone Lok Sabha parliamentary seat ended peacefully on Thursday, with an estimated 78 per cent voter turnout. “We expect the percentage to increase,” Chief Electoral Officer Abhijit Sinha…
Chandigarh, April 11 (IANS) It took a complaint from the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) to get Punjab Police Inspector General (IG) Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh shifted out by the Election Commission from the high-profile special…
By Bappaditya Chatterjee Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) Printing press owners, for whom elections used to bring a big bonanza, are ruing the stagnation in the number of orders from political parties as candidates are increasingly…
Raiganj (West Bengal), April 11 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah on Thursday said West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) actually stood for ‘tushtikaran’ (appeasement), mafia and chit fund and urged the people…