Election

Khaira: With only six days to go for the 4th phase of polling, election fever has gripped the Simulia Assembly constituency in Balasore district. Altogether five candidates are in the fray for this seat. They are: sitting MLA and ruling BJD candidate Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi;...

Baripada: The administration has braced itself up for the elections in Mayurbhanj. Polling will be held in the 2,123 booths here April 29 during the fourth phase of elections. Collector Vineet Bhardwaj held a meeting of all Returning Officers and Nodal Officers of all departments...

Bhubaneswar:  BJP has reached out to Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Odisha Surendra Kumar to complain against three top bureaucrats for allegedly working in favour of ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD). A team of Odisha BJP leaders led by its vice president Samir Mohanty and...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha recorded 71.61 per cent voter turnout during the third phase of polling held in six Lok Sabha and 42 Assembly constituencies, a senior election official said Wednesday updating the polling percentage. While the highest polling of 78.16 per cent was recorded in Keonjhar...

Bhubaneswar:  A day after third phase general elections came to an end in the state, BJD and BJP Wednesday accused each other of using muscle power to influence poll outcomes and approached the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) seeking his intervention. Biju Janata Dal approached the...

Ujiarpur/Begusarai: An energetic campaign boosted by his image of being a trenchant critic of the Modi government has propelled CPI’s Kanhaiya Kumar into the centre stage of electoral contest in Begusarai seat but many see his rising graph posing a bigger threat to the opposition...

Banda (UP): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Wednesday termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "Pradhan Prachar Mantri" and accused the BJP of "wasting drinking water" to clean roads in Banda, an arid town in Uttar Pradesh's Budelkhand region. Priyanka Gandhi's comments drew a sharp reaction from...

New Delhi: In an attempt to bar people from using its services for the purpose of manipulating the Lok Sabha elections, Twitter announced a new feature Wednesday to make it easier for users to report misleading information about voting. The new feature will come into effect...

Kanpur:  After keeping the Congress out of his alliance with the BSP, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav attacked the grand old party over its ‘big ego’ and also accused it of ditching partners and threatening rivals. “Like the BJP, the Congress too believes in...

Balasore: A day after Narendra Modi launched a personal attack on BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik and called for his ouster, Chief Minister Patnaik exuded confidence Wednesday of winning once more as he invited the Prime Minister to attend the swearing-in ceremony after declaration of the...