14,000 new polling booths likely in Bengal; all-party meet on August 29West Bengal is set to increase its polling booths by approximately 14,000 before the 2026 assembly elections. The Election Commission has s...
23 Aug, 2025, 11.37 PM IST
Maharashtra SEC asks ECI to delay voter roll revision until after local body electionsMaharashtra State Election Commission seeks postponement of electoral roll revision. The request is to the Election Commission of India. St...
17 Aug, 2025, 12.35 PM IST
View: People's message loud and clear in Jammu and KashmirThe latest assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir witnessed unprecedented voter turnout, reflecting public trust in democratic processes post-...
03 Oct, 2024, 09.39 AM IST
NC, PDP can't ensure Art 370 restoration, fooling J-K voters: BJP leader SrinivasanVanathi Srinivasan of the BJP Mahila Morcha claimed that NC and PDP are misleading voters about restoring Article 370. She asserted that BJ...
25 Aug, 2024, 05.22 PM IST
Lok Sabha polls: How EC is working on men, machines and processes to ensure 2024 election is a successEvery Indian election is familiar with money and muscle power. Over Rs 3,500 crore worth of cash, freebies, liquor and drugs were seized in...
28 Dec, 2023, 07.56 AM IST
Some heavy lifting still needed to hold JK pollsUnlike in 1995, when the last delimitation exercise was conducted in J&K and no such clause existed, section 62 of the J&K Reorganisation A...
07 May, 2022, 10.16 PM IST
Second phase of DDC polls underway in J&KVoting started at 7 am.While Kashmir division recorded an overall polling percentage of 15.64 percent, Jammu division recorded 32.54 percen...
01 Dec, 2020, 03.05 PM IST
DDC polls: West Pakistan refugees outside booths in Jammu say justice done after 70 years of struggleWith the abrogation of Article 370, several communities like West Pakistan refugees, Valmikis and Gurkhas are now eligible to vote in local...
28 Nov, 2020, 01.15 PM IST
Lok Sabha polls begin; Voters turn out in large numbers to elect 91 MPs in 1st phaseElection officials said voter turnout was high at most places, while poll-related violence saw death of two persons in Andhra Pradesh.
11 Apr, 2019, 05.13 PM IST
Clashes between TDP, YSRC workers; EVM glitches as polling underway in Andhra PradeshA mandal parishad member of YSRC was seriously injured when TDP workers allegedly attacked him at a polling station in Eluru city.
11 Apr, 2019, 03.03 PM IST
BJP chalks out plans with Rajasthan and Andhra political leaders for 2019 pollsThe party has decided to strengthen the party at the grassroots through ‘panna pramukhs’, booth-level committees and door-to-door campaigns.
14 Jun, 2018, 02.16 PM IST
Poke Me: The Supreme Court should have taken a more streetwise look before ordering a 'highway prohibition'For those of us who’ve lived in Dehradun for decades, the Supreme Court order banning sale of liquor on highways, is the cruellest joke you...
06 Apr, 2017, 10.19 PM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Congress leaves Seemandhra candidates in the lurchDigvijaya Singh, party general secretary in charge of Andhra Pradesh, did not respond to the charges of Congress leaving the candidates in ...
06 May, 2014, 08.27 AM IST
Congress in a bind as regional parties play Andhra Pradesh split cardCongress is faced with tough task of weaning away electors from Naidu & Jaganmohan Reddy, both of whom are eyeing big gains from voter angs...
05 May, 2014, 12.14 PM IST
TDP a sure winner in Seemandhra but faces challenge in TelanganaDynastic politics gives you an edge, says TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu’s son, adding that it happens across the globe. But he adds that if ...
03 Feb, 2014, 12.52 PM IST
Rajnath Singh virtually anoints Narendra Modi as PM candidateGiving all indications that it could be Modi who is the PM candidate, Singh said he is the certainly the most popular and tallest leader of...
21 Jul, 2013, 03.59 PM IST
- Assam polls: 25% voting in the first four hours
An estimated 25 per cent of the electorate cast its franchise in the first four hours of polling in 62 Assam Assembly constituencies today ...
06 Apr, 2011, 11.05 PM IST