Election

Baripada: Politics has heated up across Rairangpur Assembly seat (No. 28), an important segment of the Mayurbhanj Lok Sabha. Elections will be held here April 29 during the fourth phase. There is still no clear picture about contestants from the BJD, BJP, Congress and JMM...

Patna: The ‘Grand Alliance’ in Bihar has given just one constituency to the Left parties in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. And after that happened, the CPI has not wasted any time in nominating JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar from the Begusarai seat. Initially...

Malda(WB): Congress president Rahul Gandhi Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of lying all day and said he is the ‘chowkidar’ of the corrupt and fugitives like Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi and Vijay Mallya. Congress is fighting to keep the country united and the upcoming...

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav Saturday termed the BJP ‘schizophrenic’ and alleged that the party tries to co-opt icons like Mahatma Gandhi, B R Ambedkar and Ram Manohar Lohia but follows people who these leaders disagreed with. The remarks by the SP chief came...

Mumbai: Voters will be inked on the index finger of their right hand for the local body polls in Maharashtra on March 24 to avoid confusion during the Lok Sabha polls that follow, State Election Commissioner J S Saharia said. Maharashtra will vote for 48...

Lucknow: BSP supremo Mayawati Friday attacked the BJP using the 'chowkidar' jibe alleging while its leaders did not care about the Rafale files, they are shielding crucial data on unemployment and farmers' plight. In a series of tweets, she took a jibe at Prime Minister...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday led a fresh BJP offensive on rival parties over the Pulwama terror attack and the subsequent IAF strike inside Pakistan, terming the Opposition "the natural habitat of terror apologists" and accusing them of "insulting" armed forces. Using the...

Guwahati: Putting to rest all speculation, BJP president Amit Shah has said senior party leader and Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will not be given a ticket to contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Despite the state unit recommending his name for the Lok Sabha...

NEW DELHI: Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party on Friday, leaving a panel to decide whether to field him as a candidate in the cricket-crazy country’s upcoming general election. With 9 million followers on Twitter, Gambhir could give Modi’s...

Chennai: The Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) headed by TTV Dhinakaran Friday announced its second and final list of 14 candidates for the April 18 Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu. The list included three disqualified AIADMK MLAs owing allegiance to Dhinakaran, who floated the...