After a 2019 Supreme Court order, VVPAT slips from only five randomly selected polling stations in each Assembly segment are verified.
Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena’s office denied allegations that he met with the clergymen to curry favour for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Lok Sabha polls.
The Election Commission told both parties that their star campaigners were expected to contribute to a ‘higher quality of discourse’.
Modi claimed that the 4% quota for Muslims announced by the Congress in Andhra Pradesh in 2004 was a pilot project for a similar exercise nationwide.
Hours before the Lok Sabha elections in Kerala, senior BJP leader Sobha Surendran Thursday alleged CPI(M) central committee member E P Jayarajan held discussions to join the BJP and that he withdrew the decision fearing threat from the ruling party in the state. Jayarajan, the convener of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala, however, rejected the allegations. Addressing the media in Alappuzha, where she is the BJP candidate, Sobha said, “Jayarajan had contacted me through the...
Politics in Tamil Nadu has been dominated by regional players with ethno-nationalist ideologies, rooted in the Tamil language and culture.
Lok Sabha elections 2024 updates: Narendra Modi's third tenure as Prime Minister or Rahul Gandhi's debut in 7 Lok Kalyan Marg? India is all set to vote to decide the fates of the two leaders and their alliances in the second phase of the Lok Sabha polls on April 26. Voting is currently underway across 88 Lok Sabha constituencies in 13 states. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday backed the Supreme Court's verdict on the petitions seeking 100 per cent verification of EVM-VVPAT slips. Attacking...
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has extended the polling hours in various assembly segments of Telangana for the Lok Sabha elections scheduled for Phase 4 on May 13. The new timing would be 7 am to 6 pm against the earlier 7 am to 5 pm, PTI reported.As per Wednesday's India Meteorological Department (IMD) bulletin, the heatwave conditions will prevail in most districts of the state until May 6.While the extended time for voting will be applicable in all assembly segments of 12 Lok Sabha...
The Bharatiya Janata Party expelled its leader KS Eshwarappa for six years for contesting the polls as an Independent candidate from Karnataka’s Shivamogga.
The first minister insisted that the SNP could have found a way to keep running the Scottish Government as a minority with him in charge, but announced he would be returning to the back-benches.
Supporters of Donald Trump who are most likely to reconsider their support if he is convicted in his Manhattan hush money trial have very Joe Biden-friendly profiles, according to a CNN poll on Americans’ views of the criminal proceedings. While three-quarters of current Trump supporters said a criminal conviction would be immaterial to them, 24% said they "might reconsider" their support. In other words, of all the voters supporting Trump in the survey, 76% were MAGA diehards, while roughly a...
A Lithuanian military spokesman blasted Minsk's claims of an attempted