Election

New Delhi: Employment, employment, and employment -- will be the focus of the Congress's election campaign, party's manifesto committee member Sam Pitroda has said, asserting that the country was going through a jobs ‘crisis’. Pitroda, a long-time Gandhi family adviser and the chief of the...

New Delhi: BJP leader and Union minister Uma Bharti Sunday said it is for L K Advani to clear the "mist", after the veteran leader was not named as a party candidate for the Lok Sabha elections, and asserted that his stature was not affected...

New Delhi: The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has asked its field officers to step up vigilance in order to check illegal movement of currency, liquor and gold in the run up to general elections beginning April 11. It has also asked...

New Delhi: The BJP has announced the names of 297 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls in six lists released so far, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi and party chief Amit Shah from Gandhinagar. The lists include almost all candidates for those seats...

Pallahara: Elections are scheduled for April 23 in Angul district’s five Assembly seats including Pallahara. The Pallahara Assembly seat which falls in the Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency has 27 panchayats in Pallahara block and 19 panchayats in Kaniha block. The election here has raised heat...

New Delhi: The first phase of voting begins from April 11 and WhatsApp - and not its parent company Facebook - has turned out to be the biggest social media platform for more than 87,000 groups to target millions with political messaging. According to WhatsApp, over...

Digapahandi: With elections inching closer all parties have been adopting new strategies to win. The Congress move to change its candidate in Digapahandi Assembly constituency has significantly changed political equations in Ganjam district. The Congress, which had earlier finalised Bismay Mahapatra as its candidate, has...

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav will contest from Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, the party announced Sunday. Incidentally, this is the same constituency from which party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav won in 2014 defying the BJP wave which had then swept...

Dhenkanal: After four-time MP Tathagata Satpathy announced that he won’t contest the 2019 general elections, people in this Lok Sabha constituency are anxious to know whom the BJD will field in Dhenkanal Lok Sabha seat. While the BJP has given ticket to Rudra Narayan Pani...

Imphal: The unit of Congress in Manipur unit has accused the BJP of putting up an insurgent-backed candidate for a Lok Sabha seat here thereby compromising national security in a bid to win the upcoming elections at any cost. However, the BJP has rejected the...