Women's Reservation Bill 2026: After 30 years, here's how India moves to reserve 33% seats for women in ParliamentParliament is considering a new law to bring 33 percent reservation for women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies starting from the 2029 elec...
16 Apr, 2026, 07.26 PM IST
West Bengal polls: SIR anxiety, Islam's arrest and rising discontent against Trinamool in SujapurTensions in Sujapur, Malda district, are simmering as the assembly elections approach. Local residents express a mix of disappointment and ...
05 Apr, 2026, 11.49 PM IST
Rare 'intensive' revision in Bihar four months before pollsThe Election Commission's 'Special Intensive Revision' of Bihar's electoral rolls has ignited political debate, differing from past revisio...
01 Jul, 2025, 01.26 AM IST
One-time constitutional amendment needed for 'One nation, one election': Shivraj Singh ChouhanUnion Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan advocates for simultaneous elections. He says it will improve governance and reduce costs....
21 May, 2025, 04.42 PM IST
Karnal Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Dates, schedule, partywise candidates and all you need to knowThe Karnal Lok Sabha seat, established in 1952, has seen a shift in power from Congress to BJP in recent elections. Sanjay Bhatia, the curr...
25 May, 2024, 09.44 AM IST
After almost seven decades, left parties and Congress are together fighting the two Lok Sabha seats in TripuraLeft parties and Congress join forces in Tripura after long rivalry. BJP's Deb faces Congress's Saha in Tripura West. TMP's tribal vote inf...
21 Mar, 2024, 10.12 PM IST
BJP is loud when it wins but 'crumbles and croaks when it loses': Congress over LoP in KarnatakaThe Congress on Monday took a swipe at the BJP over it not announcing its legislature party leader in Karnataka despite the assembly sessio...
03 Jul, 2023, 02.55 PM IST
No power can stop Ram temple construction in Ayodhya: RajnathAmid "Jai Shree Ram" slogans, he said, "A grand Ram temple will be built in Ayodhya and no power in the world can stop that from happening....
24 Nov, 2019, 04.14 PM IST
A wall in Allahabad still seeks votes for Lal Bahadur ShastriThe wall takes one back to the years of Shastri's huge influence among Allahabad voters.
31 Mar, 2019, 10.57 AM IST
Rajasthan's dismal track record on women candidates in Lok Sabha pollsSecurity of 125 women candidates has been forfeited in Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan so far.
23 Mar, 2019, 11.14 AM IST
Karnataka election results today: BJP, Congress sure of majority; JD(S) may emerge kingmaker, show exit pollsThe counting of votes for 222 Assembly seats would begin at 8 am in nearly 40 counting centres and trends are likely to begin to trickle wi...
15 May, 2018, 07.56 AM IST
Voter turnout in Karnataka highest since 1952 Assembly polls: CEO"The voter turnout in the polls broke all records last night. By midnight, the figures showed that it was 72.13 per cent," he told.
13 May, 2018, 07.58 PM IST
At 100, India's first voter to cast vote again; EC to roll out red carpetPost-independence, when parliamentary polls were being held in the country for the first time, the EC had advanced the voting in Kinnaur, k...
29 Oct, 2017, 10.25 AM IST
Simultaneous state, LS polls doable, says law panel chiefThe matter has already been discussed by the standing committee on law and justice and has submitted its report to Parliament in December 2...
19 Jan, 2017, 11.33 AM IST
Lok Sabha poll cost jumps 80 times from Rs 10 crore to Rs 846 crore since 1952If concurrent election to Lok Sabha and state legislative assembly is held then such expenditure is shared between central and respective s...
08 Apr, 2014, 05.48 PM IST
Lok Sabha poll expenditure up by 84 times since 1952From 1977 onwards, the expenditure on each subsequent election more than doubled, shooting up to Rs 23.04 crore in 1977 and then Rs 54.77 c...
03 Apr, 2014, 10.48 AM IST
Congress will meet same fate in Lok Sabha polls as in states: LK AdvaniAdvani said that Congress will suffer badly in the coming Lok Sabha elections because of the Centre's wrongdoings, inflation and corruption.
13 Dec, 2013, 09.43 PM IST