Election

New Delhi: The Election Commission Wednesday issued a show cause notice to a member of the BJP's National Election Committee for sharing an audio-visual advertisement titled ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar ‘ on social media without complying with the directions of the poll body, an official said....

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has come up with 15 names to be the party's star campaigners in Delhi, senior party leader Gopal Rai said. Rai said these names would be submitted to the Election Commission for approval on Wednesday and they would...

New Delhi: Actor Urmila Matondkar Wednesday joined the Congress after meeting party chief Rahul Gandhi at his residence. Gandhi welcomed her in the party fold and wished her the best. Later, at a press conference, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the actor will contribute...

Bhubaneswar: A day after resigning from the Bharatiya Janata Party, senior leader Subhas Chouhan Wednesday joined the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD). Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik welcomed Chouhan and suggested that his joining the BJD will further strengthen the party. “I am...

Chennai: The Congress party's minimum guaranteed income scheme will be rolled out in phases and the five crore beneficiary families will be covered in phases, senior leader P Chidambaram said Wednesday. Addressing a press conference here, the former Finance Minister said enough economists and experts...

Puri: Trouble seems to be mounting for BJP spokesman and party nominee for Puri Lok Sabha seat Sambit Patra who carried an idol of Lord Jagannath in a vehicle during a rally and it has not gone down well with a section of the temple...

New Delhi: Going by precedents and instructions issued in the past, the Election Commission is likely to approve a Rural Development Ministry request to revise the wages under MGNREGA from April 1, a move that could benefit crores of beneficiaries across the country, sources said....

New Delhi: Going by precedents and instructions issued in the past, the Election Commission (EC) is likely to approve a Rural Development Ministry request to revise the wages under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) from April 1, a move that could benefit...

New Delhi: The State of the Nation March 2019 Wave 2 opinion poll conducted by CVoter for this agency shows the likely vote percentage for the two main poles of national politics, the NDA and UPA in this year’s general elections. A pre poll alliance...

New Delhi: BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi has declared in a message to voters in his Kanpur constituency in Uttar Pradesh that he had been told by his party not to contest the national election. The 85-year-old is the latest BJP doyen to be benched...