By Prashant Sood New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) In an effort to oust the Narendra Modi government, Congress President Rahul Gandhi ran a concerted campaign over the past three and a half months, holding nearly…
Gorakhpur, May 19 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath cast his ballot here on Sunday and said the walls of casteism, regionalism and dynastic politics were now showing cracks. After casting his vote, Adityanath…
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday appealed to voters to exercise their right in record numbers and said that one vote will shape India’s development trajectory. “Today is the final…
Jalandhar, May 19 (IANS) Cricketer Harbhajan Singh was among the first to cast his vote on Sunday at a polling booth in this Punjab’s town. The spinner appealed to voters not to miss “an opportunity”…
Bhopal, May 19 (IANS) A case of violation of the model code of conduct has been filed against Congress candidate from Ratlam-Jhabua constituency Kantilal Bhuria and Madhya Pradesh minister Surendra Baghel along with nine others…
Bengaluru, May 18 (IANS) An estimated 3.83-lakh electorate are enrolled to vote in Karnataka’s two Assembly segments in a crucial by-election on Sunday, a poll official said on Saturday. “Arrangements have been made to hold…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) With Trinamool Congress pointing out that Bharatiya Janata Party leader Mukul Roy being an ‘outsider’ should stay away from the areas where elections were taking place on Sunday, an Election Commission…
By Bappaditya Chatterjee Kolkata (West Bengal), May 18 (IANS) The talk of the town is whether the Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal — which had earlier sent stalwarts like Somnath Chatterjee and a…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) Alleging that the BJP President Amit Shah’s recent road show in Kolkata was a “criminal conspiracy” to defame the state government, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday wrote a…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) A number of high-voltage battles are on the cards in the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal as two popular Bengali actresses set their feet on…
By Sirshendu Panth Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) Chandra Kumar Bose, grand nephew of revolutionary leader Subhas Chandra Bose and BJP candidate from the Kolkata South Lok Sabha constituency, blames successive Congress regimes for suppressing and…
Chennai, May 18 (IANS) The stage is for the May 19 crucial by-elections to four assembly constituencies and the repolling in 13 booths in Erode, Dharmapuri, Tiruvallur and Cuddalore Lok Sabha consituencies in Tamil Nadu….
Thiruvananthapuram, May 18 (IANS) Kerala Chief Electoral Officer Teeka Ram Meena on Saturday said a woman poll official would verify women voters, coming to polling booths with faces covered. Seven booths in Kasargode and Kannur…
By Bappaditya Chatterjee Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress is making politics a “non-serious affair”, said Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, the Left Front backed CPI-M candidate from the Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal,…
By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, May 18 (IANS) Opposition parties have been apprehensive about glitches in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), but a new spectre looms large ahead of May 23 when the counting of votes begins….
By Brajendra Nath Singh New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed 142 rallies during his marathon election campaign, devoting 40 per cent of these in the politically-crucial Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and…
Chandigarh, May 18 (IANS) Each polling booth in Chandigarh, going to the polls on Sunday, will have three electronic voting machines (EVMs) to accommodate 36 Lok Sabha candidates. Since an EVM can carry only 16…
By Milinda Ghosh Roy Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) An uneasy calm prevails in and around Vidyasagar College, that has been at the centre of a political tornado over violence and vandalism of Bengali polymath Ishwarchandra…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) Following the spate of violence in Kolkata ahead of the final phase of Lok Sabha polls where campaigning was stopped 20 hours before scheduled time, 710 companies of central forces, 461…
Chandigarh, May 18 (IANS) Bhagwant Mann, the Aam Aadmi Party Punjab unit chief, said, here on Saturday, Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu has put his stamp on the allegations of Sukhbir Badal-Amarinder Singh bonhomie that…