NEW DELHI: The first phase of polling for Lok Sabha elections saw long lines of voters in several places but concluded on Thursday with turnouts across 20 states more or less matching the voting percentages recorded in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, according to the Election Commission. While a preliminary look seems to indicate a […]
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Thursday informed the chief electoral officer of Delhi that all content on NaMo TV, a television channel that mysteriously appeared on private DTH networks two weeks back, needs to be cleared by the poll panel’s Media Certification and Monitoring Committee before being aired. The 24-hour channel has been […]
In 2014, when Narendra Modi was loudly declaiming across the country, in his by-now familiar aggressive tone, how he would Marie Kondo the Indian political scene, ridding it of all the dirt and corruption, everybody (including me) was eager to believe him. His politics was, ahem, a bit dubious (all nationalistic rhetoric is, Tagore taught […]
Ninety-one Lok Sabha constituencies spread across 18 states and two UTs, including all in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, will go to polls on Thursday in the first-phase, with Nitin Gadkari, Kiren Rijiju and VK Singh among several Union ministers in the fray. In Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim and Odisha, assembly polls to 175, 32 and […]
Ninety-one Lok Sabha constituencies spread across 18 states and two UTs, including all in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, will go to polls on Thursday in the first-phase, with Nitin Gadkari, Kiren Rijiju and VK Singh among several Union ministers in the fray. In Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim and Odisha, assembly polls to 175, 32 and […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday “strongly” condemned the Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh + , saying the sacrifice of those killed will not go in vain. BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi and four security personnel were Tuesday killed when their convoy was attacked by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh‘s Dantewada district, days before the first-phase elections […]
Lok Sabha Election 2019 LATEST updates: Strongly protesting the Election Commission’s decision to stop disbursement of funds to farmers under Odisha government’s Kalia scheme, Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday went to office of the chief electoral officer to lodge a complaint. Addressing a rally in Mysuru, Prime Minister Narendra Modi questioned Rahul Gandhi’s […]
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti today said that once Article 370 is scrapped, the state leaders will not be able to fight polls. Her reaction came after a PIL was filed in the Delhi high court to ban Omar, Farooq Abdullah and Mufti from contesting elections. Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav […]
The Indian Air Force on Monday released radar images to rebut Pakistan’s claim that it hadn’t lost a US-manufactured F-16 fighter jet in the February 27 dogfight. The IAF said there was more credible evidence available to establish that Pakistan Air Force had lost one F-16 in the air action. But the IAF is […]
New Delhi: It took weeks of late night meetings and an extensive survey for the Congress finally to come up with its election slogan, which it hopes is a winning one. ‘Ab Hoga Nyay’ is what the party hopes to woo the voters with by pitting it against the BJP’s ‘Modi Hai To Mumkin […]
