New Delhi: As campaigning for the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha elections in 59 parliamentary constituencies ended Friday, over 10.17 crore voters across seven states and one Union Territory are ready to decide the fate of 918 candidates Sunday. The states which will...
New Delhi: TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu Saturday met Congress president Rahul Gandhi and discussed firming up an anti-BJP front to keep the saffron party out of power after poll results are declared. Before meeting the Congress chief, Naidu, who is spearheading an effort to cobble...
New Delhi: The Congress Saturday hit out at the Modi government over Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa recusing himself from EC meetings to discuss poll code violations, saying erosion of institutional integrity is the hallmark of the present dispensation. Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala cited a...
Chandigarh: The Election Commission has issued a notice to BJP candidate from Gurdaspur Sunny Deol for allegedly violating of the model code of conduct. Poll officials took serious note of a public meeting held by Deol in Pathankot Friday night, after the silent period come...
New Delhi: Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has decided to stay away from the meetings related to the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) due to his dissent on the clean chit given to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah, sources said. Election Commissioner...
Mumbai: As the Opposition parties' apprehensions on glitches in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) continue to simmer, a new spectre looms large on the vote-count day of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, May 23. With the verdict of millions of voters in 2019 elections sealed inside...
Khargone: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday he will never forgive BJP candidate Pragya Singh Thakur for insulting Mahatma Gandhi by calling his assassin Nathuram Godse a true ‘patriot’. Modi told a TV channel during his last rally here ahead of the last phase of...
New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah came out strongly Friday against the controversial remarks of his party leaders, including Pragya Singh Thakur, over Nathuram Godse. He said that the BJP has taken serious note of their statements, which are against its ideology. Shah has asked...
Bangalore: Union Minister Anantkumar Hegde stoked Friday a controversy by calling Congress president Rahul Gandhi a ‘moron’ for his tweet that ‘Modilies’ is a new word in the English dictionary. In a tweet, the Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship said, “This moron...
Chennai: Actor-politician Kamal Haasan, who is at the centre of a raging row over his Hindu extremist remarks, Friday said ‘every religion has its own terrorists’ and that no one can claim to be sanctimonious. The Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief also said that he...
Many of the acts of omission and commission by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in the recent past have...
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One of the most remarkable democratic developments of recent times came from New York City this month. A 33-year-old man...
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It’s hard not to see the flight of over a dozen IAS officers from Tripura’s cadre as a crypto-threshold moment....
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Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari took everyone by surprise when at a function in Nagpur, where the...
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