Mere 1 pc increase in literacy rate in India, leads to 25 pc rise in female voter's turnout: SBI ReportA report by State Bank of India reveals that a 1% rise in literacy in India increases female voter turnout by 25%. Employment schemes, sani...
13 Jan, 2025, 09.29 AM IST
Why young voters are less interested in elections?As per data, India's youngest voters, aged 18 and 19, are showing dismally low interest in the upcoming elections, with less than 40% regis...
05 Apr, 2024, 05.06 PM IST
View: A frank opinion on opinion pollsOne would expect some pollsters to underestimate one party’s eventual result while others to overestimate it. Instead, opinion polls are of...
12 Mar, 2021, 10.56 PM IST
Revised voting percentage in second phase of Bihar polls recorded at 55.70%The provisional voting figure till late Tuesday night was 54.64 which rose marginally after the poll panel updated the data with the arriva...
04 Nov, 2020, 10.49 PM IST
Why Delhi 2020 verdict is equally important for both poll pundits and political partiesThe fact of the matter is that opinion polls fail to predict the winner in many elections worldwide. Sometimes, despite correctly predictin...
10 Feb, 2020, 11.33 PM IST
What is VVPAT?The VVPAT machine gives instant feedback to the voter, through a printed slip.
05 Feb, 2020, 02.41 PM IST
'After ISI report, EC to decide on raising polling stations where VVPAT slips matched with results'The VVPAT are used in all polling stations but as of now, results of EVMs and VVPATs are matched in one polling station per constituency.
01 Dec, 2018, 04.26 PM IST
Experts back poll panel’s VVPAT counting formulaThe VVPAT is a printer-like machine attached to an EVM that allows a voter to briefly see whether his vote has been correctly gone in favou...
08 Oct, 2018, 07.05 AM IST
Modi will return to power with higher majority: BJP President Amit ShahShah said his party will get “full majority” in Karnataka and will repeat the same in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh after this.
05 May, 2018, 09.36 AM IST
Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP needs a future plan; fatigue sets in for party’s small-time dramaIn the solitude of Tihar jail, one hopes Kejriwal comes up with a future plan that will have elements to it other than the villains & victi...
25 May, 2014, 09.59 AM IST
Congress is deliberately holding back Census figures: Harsh VardhanBJP today accused UPA govt of deliberately not releasing Census figures as it was afraid of exposing the economic conditions of Muslim comm...
18 Apr, 2014, 09.44 PM IST
Narendra Modi's formula for BJP to win back Lok Sabha seats from CongressNarendra Modi today asked BJP to specially focus on those Lok Sabha constituencies where its candidates stood second behind Congress.
24 Dec, 2013, 09.58 PM IST
AAP likely to win 6-7 seats, Congress tally may fall to 30, BJP could improve performance: SurveyThe fledgling AAP poses a serious threat to Sheila Dikshit’s bid for a fourth term in the upcoming assembly elections.
23 Sep, 2013, 06.23 AM IST
- They don't stop at 100% in Arunachal!
People turning out to vote exceeded number of registered voters in AP.
02 May, 2009, 12.47 AM IST
- This Lok Sabha election is big @ cyberspace
LS elections will go down in history as technology used to create awareness.
15 Apr, 2009, 02.03 AM IST
- BJP to reach 10 crore voters via SMS, email
BJP is planning to step up its Lok Sabha campaign by combining a personal contact programme through emails and SMSs with an advertising bli...
02 Apr, 2009, 06.27 AM IST
- Vote for cash: Karnataka tops national shame table
The study conducted after assembly elections in May 2008 gains relevance given the ongoing bypolls in Karnataka where money power is expect...
25 Dec, 2008, 09.05 AM IST