Election

Bhadrak: The Bhadrak Parliamentary seat assumes an important place in the state politics. The seat, reserved for the Scheduled Caste category, comprises seven Assembly segments -- Soro, Simulia (Balasore), Bhadrak, Basudevpur, Dhamnagar, Chandbali and Bhandaripokhari. With electioneering at its peak, eight candidates from various parties...

Hindol: Polling in the Hindol Assembly constituency will be held in the third phase of elections, that is April 23. With just five days left for polling the candidates of the three major political parties have geared up their electioneering, keeping pace with the scorching...

New Delhi: The approval rating of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has dropped around 17 points in over a month but there is still no good news for the Congress as satisfaction of voters with Rahul Gandhi has not shown any sign of improvements, according to...

New Delhi: The BJP secured 10 per cent or more votes on nine Lok Sabha seats in Kerala in 2014 but barring Thiruvananthapuram, it came nowhere near even the victory mark. However, in 2019, riding on the Sabarimala sentiment, the party sees a realistic chance...

Puducherry: Polling for the lone Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency Thursday saw 80 per cent turnout while the by-election for Thattanchavady Assembly seat saw 77 per cent voting. An Election Commission official said the poll percentage may slightly go up as the numbers are being gathered....

New Delhi: High voter turnout marked polling in the second phase of Lok Sabha elections Thursday covering 95 constituencies in 11 states and Puducherry, with both the Union territory and Manipur clocking a percentage of 80. The Srinagar seat in Jammu and Kashmir recorded a...

New Delhi: Four veteran politicians – LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Kamal Nath and Yogi Adityanath – who were elected to the Lok Sabha on five or more successive occasions since 1998 will not be seen in the next Lok Sabha. Thirteen political leaders who...

Mainpuri (UP) April 18: At loggerheads for decades, SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and BSP chief Mayawati are scheduled to share the dais at a joint rally of the SP-BSP-RLD alliance in the Samajwadi Party citadel of Mainpuri Friday. Preparations are underway for the rally...

Bagalkot/Chikkodi (Karna): The Congress wants to install a "helpless” Prime Minister, Narendra Modi said Thursday, making a forceful plea for people’s mandate for a strong government, focusing on national security. Addressing two rallies in north Karnataka on the final lap of his campaign for Lok...

Begusarai: CPI candidate from Bihar's Begusarai Lok Sabha seat Kanhaiya Kumar has said that this election is a battle between people who want to educate the youth and those who want them to make ‘pakodas’. Referring to the CBSE’s decision to scrap chapters on 'democracy...