Election

Mumbai: Leaders of various opposition parties on Tuesday launched a fresh attack on the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs)-VVPATs, claiming they are ridden with glitches and vulnerable to programming error. Addressing a joint press conference here with other leaders, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP chief...

Kolkata: Hoping to break the party’s anti-minority image with their messaging, the BJP’s two Muslim candidates say their outreach was not based on the triple talaq poll plank but on issues such as domestic violence and the need to educate women in the community. Humayun...

Badaun (UP): District authorities Tuesday raided a house here after the Samajwadi Party (SP) complained that state minister Swami Prasad Maurya was violating poll rules and camping in the constituency from where his daughter is contesting. Maurya was not found at the house, but the...

Dhenkanal: In yet another case of political violence in the state, a BJD worker was Tuesday attacked by a group of men in Ambapalas booth under Parjanga Assembly constituency of this district. The victim has been identified as Santosh Kumar Sahoo of Ramchandrapur lane in...

Kolkata: Hoping to break the party’s anti-minority image with their messaging, the BJP’s two Muslim candidates in this state have said their outreach have not been not based on the triple talaq poll plank, but on issues such as domestic violence and the need to...

Dhenkanal:  An on-duty polling official attached to booth number 41 in Kantapal village under the Parjanga Assembly segment passed away Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Nabakishore Nayak. According to sources, he collapsed inside the polling booth that comes under Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency. While...

Raigarh: A 46-year-old tribal woman collapsed Tuesday while standing in a queue to cast her vote in Raigarh Lok Sabha constituency in Chhattisgarh and later died at hospital, police said. The woman, Anjela Toppo, was waiting for her turn to exercise her franchise at polling...

Mumbai: BJP leader Pragya Singh Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast, Tuesday sought dismissal of the application seeking to bar her from contesting the Lok Sabha polls, even as the NIA distanced itself from the issue. Thakur, through her lawyer, filed a reply...

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi held two rallies in different parts of Odisha. Addressing a gathering at Kendrapara, he asserted that the exit of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is ‘certain’ while shortly afterwards in Balasore he slammed the Congress for failing to demonstrate India’s...

Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party (SP) has fielded Shalini Yadav as the joint candidate of the SP-BSP alliance in Varanasi to challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha elections. A light-weight candidate, Shalini has unsuccessfully contested the Mayoral polls in Varanasi on a Congress...