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Sikkim records over 74 pc polling | Gangtok, April 12 (IANS) Over 74 per cent votes were cast as polling continued beyond the deadline in Sikkim on Thursday in simultaneous elections for the 32-member state Assembly and the lone Lok Sabha seat. | 11-Apr-2019 |
Three injured in Arunachal Pradesh poll | Itanagar, April 11 (IANS) Three persons were injured when supporters of two rival political parties clashed in the Tali Assembly constituency of Arunachal Pradesh during polling on Thursday, an election official said. | 11-Apr-2019 |
60% voting recorded in Tripura LS polls | Agartala, April 11 (IANS) Around 60 per cent voting was recorded in the first seven hours of polling (up to 2 p.m.) on Thursday for the West Tripura parliamentary constituency in Tripura, election and police officials said. | 11-Apr-2019 |
Lok Sabha polls begin with voting in 91 | New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) Voting began on Thursday across 91 Lok Sabha constituencies spread over 20 states and Union Territories as the first phase of the mega seven-phase electoral exercise kicked off. | 10-Apr-2019 |
EC stops Modi biopic release till LS pol | New Delhi, April 10 (TIWN / IANS) The Election Commission on Wednesday stopped the release of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's biopic till the Lok Sabha elections got over saying that any material which disturbs level-playing field should not be displayed. | 10-Apr-2019 |
AAP launches phase II campaign for Lok S | New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Gearing up for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday launched the second phase of its campaign with focus on one-to-one communications. | 10-Apr-2019 |
PM targets Congress, points to cash seiz | Junagadh (Gujarat), April 10 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said Congress has been involved in various scams and a new scam 'Tughlak Road Chunavi Ghotala' (Tughlak Road election scam) has surfaced now. | 10-Apr-2019 |
NIA gets Yasin Malik's custody till Apri | New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) A Delhi court on Wednesday sent Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Yasin Malik to National Investigation Agency's (NIA) custody till April 22 in connection with a case related to the funding of terror and separatist groups in the state. | 10-Apr-2019 |
Nyay has amazing resonance, says Rahul G | New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that party's Nyuntam Aay Yojana (Nyay) was a powerful idea which has an "absolutely amazing resonance" in the field and claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot stop talking about it. | 09-Apr-2019 |
Dalai Lama in Delhi hospital with chest | Dharamsala, April 9 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was admitted to a private hospital in New Delhi on Tuesday with a chest infection, his aided said. | 09-Apr-2019 |
Kanhaiya files nomination from Begusarai | Begusarai (Bihar), April 9 (IANS) Former JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, contesting as the CPI candidate, on Tuesday filed his nomination for the Begusarai Lok Sabha seat in Bihar. | 09-Apr-2019 |
RSS leader shot, Army out in J&K town | Jammu, April 9 (IANS) The Army was called out in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar town on Tuesday after a suspected militant shot and seriously wounded RSS leader Chandrakant Singh and killed his personal security officer, police said. | 09-Apr-2019 |
Priyanka Gandhi to hold roadshow in Fate | Agra, April 9 (IANS) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi will hold an 87-km-long roadshow on April 13 through the Fatehpur Sikri Lok Sabha constituency from where Raj Babbar, film actor and state Congress President, is contesting the Lok Sabha polls. | 09-Apr-2019 |
People have decided to make Modi PM agai | Hyderabad, April 9 (IANS) BJP President Amit Shah on Tuesday claimed that people have decided to make Narendra Modi the Prime Minister again. | 09-Apr-2019 |
NPP reiterates opposition to citizenship | Tura (Meghalaya), April 9 (TIWN / IANS) Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Monday reiterated the ruling National People's Party's (NPP) strong opposition to the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. | 08-Apr-2019 |
Selfie contest for Mizoram's first time | Aizawl, April 8 (TIWN / IANS) To encourage first time voters, the Mizoram Election Department will organise a selfie contest on Thursday, the day of polling for the lone Lok Sabha seat in the state, an official said here on Monday. | 08-Apr-2019 |
Assam 1st phase polls heading for straig | Guwahati, April 8 (IANS) Assam's five Lok Sabha constituencies, which are all set to open the battle of the ballots in the state on Thursday in the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls, are likely to see a straight contest between the ruling BJP and the Congress. | 08-Apr-2019 |
BJP promises pension, extra income for f | New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) The BJP promised in its election manifesto released on Monday to double farm income by 2022, extend PM-KISAN scheme to all farmers, and give pension for small and marginal farmers. | 08-Apr-2019 |
Rahul, Priyanka's UP rally cancelled ove | Saharanpur (Uttar Radesh), April 8 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi's rally in Saharanpur on Monday was cancelled due to bad weather. | 08-Apr-2019 |
Modi a seasonal bird, afraid of me: Mama | Agartala/Jalpaiguri/Alipurduar (West Bengal), April 7 (TIWN / IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a "seasonal bird" for coming to north Bengal only ahead of elections, and dismissed his claim that she was petrified, saying it was he who was scared of her. | 08-Apr-2019 |
Bomb attack in Tripura former Ministerâ | AGARTALA, April 7 (TIWN): With a shocking report, former Minister of CPI-M, MLA Bhanulal Saha’s house was attacked through a bomb on Sunday. | 07-Apr-2019 |
Don't divide votes, Congress-BJP are sam | Deoband (Uttar Pradesh), April 7 (IANS) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday branded the BJP and the Congress in the same bracket and urged people to shun both and vote en bloc for the SP-BSP-RLD alliance in Uttar Pradesh. | 07-Apr-2019 |
Centre allowed Pulwama for Modi's victor | Srinagar, April 7 (IANS) Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference (NC) President Farooq Abdullah on Sunday alleged that the Central government knew about the Pulwama terror attack, but allowed it to happen so that Narendra Modi could win elections. | 07-Apr-2019 |
Mayawati takes on BJP, Congress in first | Deoband (Uttar Pradesh), April 7 (IANS) BSP leader and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday urged people to defeat the BJP as well as the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections, saying both had betrayed the electorate. | 07-Apr-2019 |
NPP launches 'One Voice, One North East' | Shillong, April 7 (IANS) Meghlaya's ruling National People's Party on Saturday launched its social media campaign, with the theme "One Voice, One North East", to enlighten the electorate across the northeast on its agenda. | 06-Apr-2019 |
Shatrughan joins Congress, to fight from | New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Saturday joined the Congress, ending his decades-old association with the Bharatiya Janata Party on its foundation day and slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah as "one-man show, two-man army". | 06-Apr-2019 |
Yechury slams Rahul for contesting from | Agartala, April 6 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury here on Saturday said the Congress had been calling meetings of 21 opposition parties, including the Left parties, in Delhi, but its President Rahul Gandhi was contesting against the Left in Kerala's Wayanad. | 06-Apr-2019 |
Dimple files papers for Kannauj LS seat | Kannauj (Uttar Pradesh), April 6 (IANS) Outgoing MP Dimple Yadav, wife of Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, on Saturday filed her nomination for the Kannauj parliamentary seat. | 06-Apr-2019 |
Modi slams Congress, BJD over poverty | Bhubaneswar, April 6 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday slammed the Congress and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for keeping people poor in the country for their personal gain and vote bank politics. | 06-Apr-2019 |
I also love those temporarily blinded by | New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that hatred was cowardice and he loves all living beings including those temporarily blinded by hatred. | 05-Apr-2019 |
Congress complains to EC against Modi's | New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) The Congress on Friday moved the Election Commission alleging brazen violation of Model Code of Conduct by Prime Minister Narendra Modi by his remarks pertaining to candidature of party President Rahul Gandhi from Wayanad in Kerala. | 05-Apr-2019 |
Election Commission removes Kolkata Poli | Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (EC) on Friday removed Kolkata Police Commissioner Anuj Sharma and his counterpart in the Bidhannagar Commissionerate Gyanwant Singh. | 05-Apr-2019 |
Supreme Court stays Herald House evictio | New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) In a big relief to the Gandhis and the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha battle, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed the eviction of the Herald House that houses the National Herald office. | 05-Apr-2019 |
BJP again bets on Modi to retain Bangalo | Bengaluru, April 5 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is banking on the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his campaign to retain the three key Lok Sabha constituencies in India's tech hub of Bangalore, where polling will be held on April 18 in the first phase of the 2019 general elections in Karnataka. | 05-Apr-2019 |
SC says Bengaluru sewage water to be use | New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday lifted a stay it imposed earlier on the Karnataka government's scheme to pump secondary treated water from sewage plants in Bengaluru to minor irrigation tanks in the water-starved districts of Kolar and Chikkaballapur. | 05-Apr-2019 |
Christian Michel knew Mrs Gandhi since 1 | New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) British national Christian Michel, the middleman in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal, has known "Mrs Gandhi" since 1986, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said in its fourth supplementary chargesheet. | 05-Apr-2019 |
Country groaning under undeclared Emerge | Lucknow, April 5 (IANS) Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati on Friday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the people of India were suffering under his government's "undeclared Emergency". | 05-Apr-2019 |
Urmila Matondkar, Hardik Patel to addres | Mumbai, April 4 (IANS) Bollywood actress and Congress candidate from Mumbai North Urmila Matondkar and Gujarat Patidar leader Hardik Patel will address a 'Mega Youth Meet' in Andheri here on Sunday. | 04-Apr-2019 |
4 BSF troopers killed by Maoists in Chha | New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) Four Border Security Force (BSF) personnel were killed and two others were wounded on Thursday in a gun battle with Maoists in Chhattisgarh, the BSF said. | 04-Apr-2019 |
Rahul, Priyanka to campaign in west UP o | Lucknow, April 4 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi will tour western Uttar Pradesh on April 8. He will be accompanied by his sister and General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi and party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, party sources said. | 04-Apr-2019 |
BJP, RLP form alliance in Rajasthan | Jaipur, April 4 (IANS) In a jolt to the Congress, the Rajasthan Loktantrik Party (RLP) on Thursday joined hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), forming a new alliance in the state ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. | 04-Apr-2019 |
NE states to fight common issues unitedl | Imphal, April 4 (IANS) The civil society organisations in the northeastern states on Wednesday formed a common platform in Imphal to fight the common issues in the region unitedly. | 03-Apr-2019 |
Won't spare infiltrators, NRC won't hurt | Siliguri, April 3 (IANS) Insisting that he won't spare infiltrators, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday assured justice for refugees from neighbouring countries and said the Gorkha community in north Bengal won't be hurt by a National Register of Citizens (NRC). | 03-Apr-2019 |
Amit Shah slams Congress' silence on Kas | Dehradun, April 3 (IANS) BJP President Amit Shah on Wednesday slammed the Congress for its silence on the National Conference chief Omar Abdullah's demand of a separate Prime Minister for Jammu and Kashmir. | 03-Apr-2019 |
LS polls: Congress declares 20 more cand | New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) The Congress on Tuesday night declared 20 more Lok Sabha candidates retaining some of its sitting MPs in Punjab including Sunil Jakhar from Gurdaspur, Gurjit Singh Aujla from Amritsar, Ravneet Singh Bittu from Ludhiana and Santokh Singh Chaudhary from Jalandhar. | 02-Apr-2019 |
Brown sugar seized from Manipur border, | Imphal, April 3 (IANS) A combined team of Assam Rifles and Manipur Police commandos arrested tribal drug trafficker on Tuesday near international border town Moreh and seized over 9 kg of brown sugar. | 02-Apr-2019 |
Congress aims to revamp judicial system | New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) The Congress on Tuesday released its manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The manifesto has a chunk on partys vision to overhaul the existing judicial system in the country. The party is willing to review laws, rules and regulation, considered draconian; easing access to justice for common people, and finally, the party is confident that it will leave no stone unturned in order to protect and maintain the independence of the judiciary. | 02-Apr-2019 |
Unemployment major issue, jobless feel B | New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Unemployment is the biggest issue for the voters across the board but the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is seen as the best bet to deal with the issue. | 02-Apr-2019 |
Congress unveils manifesto, focuses on w | New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday promised to provide Rs 72,000 a year to the poorest families and fill 22 lakh government vacancies if his party won the Lok Sabha battle and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of wrecking the economy. | 02-Apr-2019 |
Suspense over Vellore LS poll after cash | Chennai, April 2 (IANS) With a large amount of cash being seized by the Income Tax (IT) Department from a cement godown in Vellore district that belongs to a DMK official, suspense continues over whether the Lok Sabha polls for the Vellore seat in Tamil Nadu will be held as scheduled on April 18 or will be postponed. | 02-Apr-2019 |