Polling for Goa's 40 assembly constituencies officially ended at 5 p.m. on Saturday by when 83 per cent of the electorate exercised their franchise, officials said. ...
A major reason why the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is believed to be finding it difficult to cross the finishing line with ease in the ensuing UP assembly elections is its loss of the Muslim vote since 2014, when it had secured more support from the community than ever before. ...
Rescuers have recovered 10 bodies after a boat capsized in waters off South ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday likened his first election rally in...
Raising the banner of revolt, former MP and AIADMK member K.C. Palaniswamy has written to the Election Commission saying the appointment of Sasikala as interim general secretary should not be recognised and the poll panel should appoint an "independent and fearless" official to conduct polls for electing the AIADMK General Secretary soon. ...
A Pakistani Minister has said that including the country in a list of those whose citizens have been temporarily barred from visiting the US would be "counterproductive", a media report said on Saturday. Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal, who met several US officials and lawmakers during his five-day visi...
Chandigarh, Feb 4 Over 23 per cent of Punjab's 1.98 crore voters on Saturday cast their votes in the first four hours in the polls for the 117 assembly seats, election officials said here. Long queues were seen outside many of the 22,614 polling stations across the state between 8 a.m. and 12 noon. The Fatehgarh Sahib district led in the voting percentage wit...
Defence Minister and former Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Saturday voted at a polling booth here and said that BJP will return to power in the state. Hinting at his own return, Parrikar said:"I like Goan food... now its upto you what meaning you make of it." After casting his vote, Parrikar said to the media here that he expects...
Nearly 34 per cent of the state's electorate have cast their ballots in the Goa assembly polls which began on Saturday morning, election officials said. "North Goa recorded 35 per cent voting, while in South Goa 32 per cent of the electorate has voted as of 11 a.m.," Chief Electoral Officer Kunal told reporters in Panaji. The percentage of male and fem...
The BJP on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the Samajwadi Party government following a High Court rap on Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Rahul Bhatnagar for a false affidavit. BJP state General Secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said the latest indictment proved that "all rules in the book have been flouted in the five years of the SP regim...
