Election

Rajnandgaon: Naxals triggered an IED blast Thursday in this district of Chhattisgarh where polling for Lok Sabha elections is underway, a senior police official said. No casualty was reported in the incident, he said. “The Red Rebels detonated the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) around 10.30am...

Amreli: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday that his government managed to contain terrorism to only ‘two-and-a-half’ districts in Jammu and Kashmir and that no bomb blast had taken place elsewhere in the country in last five years. Addressing a poll rally here in Gujarat,...

Bangalore: VIPs, including political leaders, celebrities and candidates were among the early voters who exercised their franchise in 14 Lok Sabha seats across central and southern Karnataka Thursday. “Among the early voters were 86-year-old Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) supremo HD Deve Gowda, his wife Chennamma, his...

Chennai: Tamil Nadu recorded 13.48 per cent voting till 9am Thursday in 38 Lok Sabha constituencies of the state, with Chief Minister K Palaniswami and DMK chief MK Stalin among early voters. Dayanidhi Maran also voted here along with his family members. Besides 38 of...

Berhampur: A total of 21.33 per cent voters have turned up in Aska Lok Sabha constituency and the seven Assembly seats under it till 11am. It was only 8.38 per cent till 9am in the morning. However, voters later turned up in larger numbers by...

Shimla: At 91, eight-time matronly Congress legislator Vidya Stokes continues to battle tirelessly to ensure victory of the party in all the four parliamentary seats of Himachal Pradesh. She is daily rubbing shoulders with party leaders, a majority of them almost half her age, and...

Bhubaneswar:  Voting in some booths in Odisha got delayed Thursday due to technical glitches in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). The second phase of polling is being held for five Lok Sabha and 35 Assembly seats in the state. In Sundergarh, technical glitches were reported...

Kanker: A teacher, who was on election duty at a polling booth in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district breathed his last Thursday after suffering a heart attack, an official said. The deceased, Tukalu Ram Nareti, an assistant teacher in a government school, was deputed as the polling...

Sundargarh: Two brothers of BJD’s Sundargarh MLA candidate Jogesh Singh sustained critical injuries after being attacked by miscreants in Sargipali area of this district late Wednesday night. According to reports, about six unidentified men attacked his brothers -- Naresh and Ritesh -- with knives at...

Chennai: Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan and his daughter Shruti were the first to queue up early Thursday morning to cast their votes in at a polling booth in Chennai. Shruti later tweeted a picture of the two with the quote, “Today is the day!! Vote because it...