Lok Sabha polls
- India
Braving icy heights: Elections at world’s highest polling station
Tashigang: Prem Lal arrived early at the sub-divisional magistrate’s office on Thursday, the icy cold and crisp morning air hinting at the challenges ahead. As one of the 29 booth-level officers deployed…
- India
Lok Sabha polls final phase: Voter turnout at 11.31% till 9 am
New Delhi: The final and seventh phase of the 18th Lok Sabha elections began at 7 am on Saturday, concluding the largest democratic exercise in India and the voter turnout was at…
- India
Lok Sabha polls final phase tomorrow; PM Modi among 904 candidates in fray
New Delhi: As many as 904 candidates, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are in fray in the final phase of Lok Sabha elections. Fifty-seven seats across seven states and the Union territory…
- News
Poll 2024: Opaque present, future tense
The 2024 Lok Sabha elections are closing, and the results will be on June 4. The aftermath of the election is not simply about winners and losers. It is about more than…
- Kashmir
Cash, liquor, drugs worth Rs 95 crore seized during Lok Sabha polls in J-K
Srinagar: Election authorities in Jammu and Kashmir seized about Rs 95 crore worth of cash and other freebies like liquor that were meant for influencing the minds of voters during the staggered…
- Hyderabad
Lok Sabha poll results: 16 counting centres set up in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: For the Lok Sabha poll results, 16 counting centers have been established in Hyderabad. At the centers, 14 tables will be arranged in each hall for the counting. District Electoral Officer…
- India
Lok Sabha polls 6th phase: 10.82% voter turnout recorded till 9 am
New Delhi: A voter turnout of 10.82 per cent was recorded till 9 am on Saturday in 58 constituencies in six states and two Union territories where polling is underway in the…
- India
BJP moves SC against Calcutta HC order on advertisements during Lok Sabha polls
New Delhi: The BJP on Friday moved the Supreme Court, challenging a Calcutta High Court order that refused to interfere with a single-judge verdict directing the party not to publish any advertisement…
- India
8,360 candidates in fray in 2024 LS polls, highest since 1996
New Delhi: A total of 8,360 candidates are contesting the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, the highest since 1996, according to an analysis of official data. In the 2019 polls, there were 8,039…
- India
Lok Sabha polls: Over 60 pc voter turnout recorded in fifth phase
New Delhi: Voting in the crucial fifth phase of the Lok Sabha polls, spanning 49 seats in 8 states/UTs, ended on Friday with an estimated 60.09 per cent polling, spanning from a…
- Opinions
Opinion: Pakistan doesn’t deserve space in Indian election campaign
Pakistan should not have been brought into the ongoing Lok Sabha poll campaign as that can have serious consequences as it would become some sort of necessity to talk about the state…
- India
Phase five LS polls: EC asks city dwellers to turnout in higher numbers
New Delhi: On the eve of phase five of Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission on Sunday pointed out that Mumbai, Thane and Lucknow have shown apathy towards voting in the past…
- Bangalore
Karnataka govt to increase cheap liquor prices after LS polls
Bengaluru: In a move that could spell trouble for tipplers, the government has been quietly devising plans to hike the prices of cheap liquor, awaiting implementation post the Lok Sabha elections. One…
- India
LS polls: PM Modi to address four public meetings in UP today
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address a series of public meetings in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. The Prime Minister will hold public meetings in Lalganj (Azamgarh) at 11:00…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: EC calls video of ‘rigging’ in Bahadurpura fake
Hyderabad: Responding to a viral video with claims of rigging in a polling booth in Bahadurpura in the recently held Lok Sabha elections on May 13, the chief electoral officer, Telangana termed…
