Voting underway for 78 assembly seats in final phase of Bihar pollsCasting of votes began at 7 am at all 33,782 polling stations whereas many EVM sets and VVPAT machines have been installed and paramilitary...
07 Nov, 2020, 08.30 AM IST
VVPATs only 'confidence building measure', cannot replace EVMs: MP CEORao told ET that VVPAT (Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail) is not an alternative to existing counting method but a "confidence building meas...
22 May, 2019, 09.53 PM IST
From songs to short films, from music videos to myth-busters, Mamata’s Trinamool takes BJP head on in social media spaceThe Trinamool Congress leadership holding charge of the social media sector in West Bengal realises the importance of the demographics in t...
12 Apr, 2019, 12.03 PM IST
One in 3 MPs have pending criminal casesOverall, 33.34% of the 521 sitting MPs from the country have declared criminal records, almost the same percentage as in Karnataka.
01 Apr, 2019, 12.14 PM IST
Congress has reasons not to yield to BSP-SP in election-bound statesCongress apprehends that if it yields space, SP and BSP would make bigger demands during the Lok Sabha polls, even as the two work to leave...
10 Oct, 2018, 06.35 AM IST
2019 an open battle as many states witnessing high levels of despondency: Congress data chiefThere is also a surprisingly high resentment level in the youth against the incumbent government even in urban areas which are largely cons...
03 Jul, 2018, 10.55 AM IST
Karnataka polls: Only seven women make it to the HouseThe other winners are Congress’ Roopakala M from Kolar Gold Fields (KGF), Kaneez Fatima from Gulbarga Uttar and Dr Anjali Nimbalkar from Kh...
16 May, 2018, 09.51 AM IST
View: From Harvard to House, how notebandi naysayers got it so wrongThe assembly polls may not resolve questions over the economic consequences of demonetisation, but they will put a lid on the debate over i...
12 Mar, 2017, 02.27 PM IST
Indians largest foreign voter group in UKIn this so-called "migrant power list" there are 12 Opposition Labour marginal seats, six ruling Conservative seats and two held by the Lib...
29 Jan, 2015, 07.35 PM IST
The curious case of few BJP wins in high turnout seatsIt's not difficult to see why BJP figured more prominently here than among the top 100 or why Congress had fewer seats.
28 Apr, 2014, 11.50 AM IST
More 'young' aspirants fielded from MP for Lok Sabha 2014 pollsThe youngest Congress nominee in the race from Madhya Pradesh is 29-year-old Hina Kawre, who is contesting from Balaghat constituency.
10 Apr, 2014, 03.52 PM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Socialist stalwart battling hard to wrest CPI(M) bastionA Left bastion which has sent to Parliament Marxist veterans like A K Gopalan and E K Nayanar, Palakkad had also favoured the Congress occa...
04 Apr, 2014, 10.20 AM IST
General elections 2014: Rahul Gandhi incompetent, Kumar Vishwas unworthy of description, says Smriti IraniSmriti Irani, who says she’s never spent time in Amethi and will start her campaign this week, views Gandhi as a leader not interested in t...
02 Apr, 2014, 09.26 AM IST
BJP confident of win in Madhya Pradesh pollsBJP in Madhya Pradesh hopes it will script a hat-trick in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls amid a "pro-incumbency" wave across the state.
06 Dec, 2013, 10.56 AM IST
Madhya Pradesh cold to Rahul Gandhi emotional quotient pitch?BJP leaders are now openly asking at rallies if Sonia also cries when the Pak army beheads Indian soldiers or when children are orphaned af...
22 Oct, 2013, 11.06 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
- Veteran feels service to people will pay off
Statistics are a passion for Ram Naik. Seated in his Goregaon war room, the BJP leader is ready to reel off facts and figures to substantia...
09 Apr, 2009, 12.04 PM IST