Election

Mainpuri (UP): Ending decades-long rivalry, SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati shared dais Friday at an election rally here with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president describing the Samajwadi Party (SP) patron as a ‘real leader’ of the backwards, unlike Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Lucknow: As the 72-hour campaigning ban imposed on him by the Election Commission came to an end, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Friday said that respect for constitutional bodies was part of the BJP's ideology. Adityanath also reiterated his Hindu identity as he defended...

Chopra (WB): A day after Darjeeling went to polls in the second phase of Lok sabha elections, violence broke out in the Hills Friday allegedly between the supporters of rival political parties, triggering panic among the locals, an election official said. Bombs were hurled and...

Bikaner: Sitting outside a coaching institute here, several groups of 18 to 25-year-old job aspirants are busy discussing notes from the previous class. The discussion turns into a political debate at the mention of Lok Sabha elections and unemployment – a dominant theme of the...

Ahmedabad: Congress leader Hardik Patel was slapped by an unidentified man while addressing a poll rally Friday in a village in Gujarat's Surendranagar district. The incident was captured on cameras of news channels covering the rally in the district, around 130 km from here. As...

New Delhi:  It seems that Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s comment that all Modis have thieves in their names is going to put him into a lot of trouble. A day after Bihar Deputy Chief Minister, Sushil Modi who has already filed a case against Rahul,...

New Delhi: Congress national spokesperson and convener of party’s media cell Priyanka Chaturvedi, who was miffed at the reinstatement of some party workers who had misbehaved with her, resigned from the party Friday and joined the Shiv Sena. She joined the Shiv Sena in the presence...

Nayagrah: With the election for Dasapalla Assembly constituency in this district ending Thursday, the focus has now shifted to the remaining three that will go to the polls, April 23. Frontline leaders of all political parties have started visiting these three constituencies. Union Home Minister...

Baripada/Anandapur: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari went on a marathon campaign for BJP nominees in the Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies of Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj districts Thursday. Addressing the party’s Vijay Sankalp Sabha at Chhau Grounds in Baripada, Gadkari came down heavily on the BJD government and...

Keonjhar: Rebels of the BJD, the BJP and the Congress who are unhappy due to denial of tickets are expected to play spoiler for official nominees of the parties in the Assembly constituencies of Keonjhar district. The rebels have become a headache for the official...