Kolkata, April 24 (IANS) The Election Commission Thursday sought a report from the Murshidabad district administration following a complaint against Trinamool Congress Jangipur nominee Haji Nurul Islam for entering several polling booths with a group of workers. The complaint was filed by the Congress after Islam was caught on camera entering three polling booths in Sagardighi […]
Chennai, April 23 (IANS) Over 55 million voters will Thursday decide the fate of 845 candidates in Tamil Nadu’s 39 Lok Sabha constituencies that will go to the polls in a single phase, officials said Wednesday. “A total of 9,226 polling stations have been identified as sensitive. Over one lakh security personnel have been deployed […]
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is presiding over a hate campaign but “camouflaging it with talk of development and effective government”, the CPI-M said Wednesday. The CPI-M journal, “People’s Democracy”, said in an editorial that beneath “Modispeak” was “an intense communal campaign which is specially concentrated in Uttar Pradesh […]
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) It was a warm, sunny Wednesday in the national capital and the maximum temperature settled two notches below the season’s average at 35.6 degrees Celsius. Similar weather conditions are expected Thursday, the Met Office said. “The sky will remain sunny throughout the day tomorrow (Thursday) and the afternoon will be […]
Bhubaneswar, April 23 (IANS) The maximum temperature Wednesday crossed 42 degrees Celsius in three towns in Odisha as a heat wave continued in many parts of the state, officials said. A temperature of 42.5 degrees Celsius, the day’s highest in the state, was recorded at Bhabanipatna, the district headquarters of Kalahandi, about 420 km from […]
Shimla, April 23 (IANS) A total of 38 candidates willbe in the fray for four Lok Sabha seats from Himachal Pradesh as the last day of withdrawal of nomination ended Wednesday. Polling for all the four seats will be held May 7. Twelve candidates will fight it out in Kangra, nine in Mandi, 10 in […]
Katihar (Bihar), April 23 (IANS) After losing the Lok Sabha election the last three times, NCP leader Tarique Anwar is in the fray in Katihar in Bihar hoping to score a win. Anwar faces a tough challenge from BJP’s outgoing MP Nikhil Choudhary, who is seeking re-election, banking on what he says is a “wave” […]
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) Money and liquor seems to be lining the electoral trail this election, if the latest figures of the Election Commission are anything to go by. A staggering Rs.240 crore ($39 million) in unaccounted cash has been seized by the poll panel so far. The amount is much more than was […]
Ghaziabad, April 23 (IANS) The agitation against public schools here for raising fees has widened and is garnering support from various quarters. The Abhibhavak Manch included 19 other public schools in addition to the three branches of DPS, Ghaziabad, in the ambit of its agitation on the third day Wednesday of its round-the-clock sit in […]
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) The Election Commission Wednesday issued fresh notice to Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for “persistently” and “continuously” violating the model code of conduct. Azam Khan along with the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Amit Shah was banned by the poll panel April 11 from campaigning in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly making provocative […]