New Delhi: Lok Sabha polls will be held in seven phases beginning from April 19 and the counting of votes will take place June 4 for the world's biggest election exercise. The other phases will be April 26, May 7, May 13, May 20, May...
New Delhi: Over 97 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the Lok Sabha elections, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said Saturday and urged everyone to ‘get inked.’ Addressing a press conference to announce the Lok Sabha elections, Kumar said the poll authority...
New Delhi: The Election Commission will announce the schedule for the Lok Sabha polls Saturday. In a post on X, the poll panel said a press conference to announce the schedule for Lok Sabha elections and some state assemblies will be held at 3 pm...
New Delhi: From steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal to billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal's Airtel, Anil Agarwal's Vedanta, ITC, Mahindra and Mahindra, and a lesser-known Future Gaming and Hotel Services were among the prominent buyers of the now-scrapped electoral bonds for making political donations. The Election Commission...
New Delhi: The Election Commission Thursday made the data on electoral bonds public. Following a Supreme Court directive, the State Bank of India had shared the data with the poll panel March 12. The top court had given the Election Commission time till 5 pm...
Bhubaneswar: With the possibility of a pre-poll alliance between the BJP and the BJD still lingering, Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal Thursday asserted that his party will form the next government in the state "on its own". Samal, who along with senior state BJP leaders...
Bhubaneswar: With the possibility of a pre-poll alliance between the BJP and the BJD still lingering, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has convened a meeting of his party's senior leaders Thursday afternoon, party sources said. The BJD, which had March 6, a day after Prime...
New Delhi: BJP Wednesday named 72 more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, including Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Anurag Singh Thakur, and former chief ministers Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Basavaraj Bommai. BJP chief spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Anil...
New Delhi: The State Bank of India (SBI) Wednesday told the Supreme Court that a total of 22,217 electoral bonds were purchased and 22,030 of them were redeemed by political parties between April 1, 2019 and February 15 this year. In a compliance affidavit filed...
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a proposal for expansion of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) with the addition of three lakh cadet vacancies to cater to its increasing demand from educational institutions throughout the country. From just 20,000 cadets in 1948, the...
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At a time when there are nationwide protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over the...
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By Aakar Patel In 5 March 2021, the Press Information Bureau of the Government of India put out a statement...
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