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For both the compulsive trader and careful investor: 25 stocks to watch if risk appetite returns; some with upside potential, some notIf the price of crude oil softens, Indian equities may again see a risk-on phase. Tariff concerns are no longer the central issue; the larg...
Massive turnout in assembly polls across states, women voters outnumber men: EC dataRecent assembly elections saw high voter turnout with women participating more than men. West Bengal led in polling percentages. Despite th...
Delhi election: 80% of total candidates, including 67 Congress leaders, lose depositsCongress has faced a significant setback in the Delhi Assembly polls, with most candidates losing their security deposits. Despite fielding...
86 per cent of candidates who contested LS polls, lost deposit: ECIn the recent Lok Sabha elections, 86% of the over 8,300 candidates lost their deposits, with 7,190 candidates failing to secure enough vot...
Maharashtra elections 2024: 85% of candidates lose security deposits; Congress suffers the mostMaharashtra elections 2024: A record 85% of candidates in the Maharashtra elections lost their security deposits, totaling Rs 3.5 crore. Th...
311 out of 369 candidates lose security deposit in MP amid BJP's clean sweep in Lok Sabha pollsThe most spectacular victory was registered by BJP's sitting MP from Indore, Shankar Lalwani, who bagged the seat by the potentially highes...
LS polls result: 215 out of 265 candidates in Gujarat lose security deposits215 out of 265 candidates in Gujarat Lok Sabha elections lost their security deposits for failing to meet the required vote threshold. Cand...
Over 99% independent candidates lost deposits since 1991Data compiled by the Election Commission of India show that since independence, even as the number of independent candidates has remained h...
Fighting Goa Assembly polls was never cakewalk for Shiv Sena, NCP, shows dataThe Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the ruling allies in Maharashtra, have forged an alliance for the first time in Goa...
Himachal Bypolls: Congress candidate in Dharmshala loses security depositIn the last Assembly elections, Suresh Kashyap of the BJP had defeated his nearest rival and former minister Musafir with a margin of 6,427...
In the last Lok Sabha polls, 86% of candidates lost depositsAs per the statistical report - which covered 542 parliamentary seats, excluding Vellore where the poll was cancelled - just 587 of the 7,4...
2014 polls: Over 500 out of 607 candidates lost deposits in Bihar's 40 seatsThe total number of candidates who forfeited their deposits were 512, while 607 were left in the fray out of 709 who had filed their nomina...
BSP fared bad where paper ballots were used in UP civic pollsAccording to the civic poll results, BSP candidates contested on all 16 mayoral seats and won two - Aligarh and Meerut. Its candidates forf...
1,790 candidates lose deposit in MCD polls, 92 of CongressThe BJP, which scored a hat-trick in the municipal polls with a resounding victory, saw only five of its candidates losing their deposit.
Congress lost deposit in 1/4 Uttar Pradesh Assembly seats, so did AAP in PunjabElection Commission data showed that BSP lost deposits in one in five seats in Uttar Pradesh. Ajit Singh’s RLD lost its deposits in 266 out...
63 out of 70 Congress candidates forfeit depositPresident Pranab Mukherjee's daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee also lost her deposit from the prestigious Greater Kailash seat.
Salman Khurshid, Kumar Vishwas, Shazia Ilmi, among prominent faces to lose depositMany leaders from Congress and AAP, including Kumar Vishwas and Shazia Ilmi could not manage to win enough votes to save their deposits.
LS polls show rising trend in candidates losing depositElection Commission rules say that if a candidate fails to get a minimum of one-sixth of the total valid votes polled, the deposit goes to ...
47 Nagaland candidates lose security depositA total of 47 candidates, including two sitting MLAs, lost their security deposits in the just concluded Nagaland Assembly election.
- 1,368 candidates lost security deposits in UP
The state witnessed a four-cornered contest in the general elections with Congress, BSP, BJP and SP contesting the polls on their own.