Election

New Delhi, May 12: BJP candidate Bharati Ghosh was attacked in West Bengal and a poll officer was allegedly beaten up by an MLA of the saffron party in Uttar Pradesh during the Lok Sabha poll's sixth and penultimate phase on Sunday in which over...

Kushinagar/Deoria/Lucknow: A full-scale war of words broke out Sunday between Narendra Modi and Mayawati over the Alwar gangrape incident with the Prime Minister accusing the BSP supremo of ‘shedding crocodile tears’, a charge trashed by Mayawati as his ‘dirty politics’. Addressing election rallies in Kushinagar...

Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti described Sunday Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reported remarks about clouds helping the Indian Air Force (IAF) jets escape Pakistani radars during Balakot airstrikes as ‘painfully embarrassing’. Mehbooba wondered whether the Prime Minister authorising the operation in...

Kolkata: A BJP worker was killed in West Bengal’s Jhargram while Trinamool supporters sustained bullet injuries in West Midnapore by midday during the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polling Sunday that was marred by a number of violent incidents and bids to intimidate voters. Despite...

Kushinagar (UP): As campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls entered its final phase, Prime Minister Narendra Modi predicted Sunday defeat of the opposition parties, stating that the people were voting for an effective government. “Opposition parties will fall flat in Lok Sabha polls. This is...

Patna: Around 21.52 per cent of 1.38 crore voters exercised their franchise in the first four hours of polling in eight Lok Sabha seats of Bihar in the sixth phase, Sunday, election officials said. A polling officer was killed at a polling station in a...

New Delhi: Age is just a number, said a family member of the 111-year-old Bachan Singh, the oldest voter in Delhi who carried a youthful enthusiasm into the polling station in Tilak Vihar here, Sunday Till the last Assembly elections in 2015, the centenarian cycled...

Lucknow: Voting picked up in Uttar Pradesh after a slow start Sunday in 14 Lok Sabha constituencies of the state.The average poll percentage was 21.98 per cent, a state election office spokesperson said. While Basti parliamentary constituency recorded the highest turnout of 26.39 per cent,...

Kolkata: Polling at eight Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal remained ‘peaceful’ as 16.68 per cent of 1,33,69,749 voters exercised their franchise in the first two hours of voting during the sixth phase, Sunday, an election official said. Polling is underway in Tamluk, Kanthi, Ghatal,...

New Delhi: Amid reports of attack on a BJP candidate in West Bengal and EVM glitches, polling was underway Sunday in 59 seats, including in the heartland states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and in Delhi in the sixth and penultimate phase of...