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2nd EC notice to Pragya Thakur for Babri | Bhopal, April 21 (IANS) The Election Commission on Sunday issued a show cause notice to Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, the BJP candidate from Bhopal, for her controversial remarks about the Babri Masjid demolition. | 21-Apr-2019 |
Jyotiraditya Scindia owns palace, other | Shivpuri (Madhya Pradesh), April 21 (IANS) Congress' Guna candidate Jyotiraditya Scindia, who belongs to the erstwhile Gwalior princely dynasty, owns properties worth over Rs 2 billion, including a palace that he got as part of his inheritance. | 20-Apr-2019 |
BJP to be reduced to 150 seats, NDA to 2 | Rajkot (Gujarat), April 20 (IANS) Veteran Congress leader Ahmed Patel on Saturday claimed that the BJP and its allies together would not cross 200 seats in the Lok Sabha, even as his party would spring a surprise by winning 10 to 15 seats in Gujarat. | 20-Apr-2019 |
CJI rubbished sexual harassment charges, | New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Rubbishing allegations of sexual harassment against him, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Saturday said the independence of the judiciary is under threat and there was a "larger conspiracy" to destabilise it. | 20-Apr-2019 |
MNM candidates back to usual work after | Chennai, April 20 (IANS) After days of hectic electioneering, it is business as usual for some contestants in the Lok Sabha elections belonging to Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) party. | 20-Apr-2019 |
I had erred in judging Mamata earlier: M | Buniyadpur (West Bengal), April 20 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said he had earlier erred in judging Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee as he used to consider her an embodiment of simplicity who wanted to free the people of West Bengal from the rule of the Leftists, but realised his mistake once he got to know of her misdeeds after ascending to the high office. | 20-Apr-2019 |
BJP candidate asks supporters to opt for | Lucknow, April 20 (IANS) Sanghmitra Maurya, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Uttar Pradesh's Badaun Lok Sabha seat, has landed in a controversy by asking her supporters to resort to fake voting if the actual voters were unable to cast their ballots. | 20-Apr-2019 |
Three injured after train derails near K | Kanpur, April 20 (IANS) At least three people were injured on Saturday after 12 coaches of the Delhi-bound Poorva Express derailed near Kanpur, railway officials said. | 19-Apr-2019 |
Minor injured in post-poll violence in B | Kolkata, April 19 (IANS) A Class 7 student sustained a bullet injury during clashes between West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress supporters and BJP activists at Chopra in North Dinajpur district on Friday, a day after Lok Sabha polls were held there, police said. | 19-Apr-2019 |
Will protect Sabarimala traditions: Cong | Thiruvananthapuram, April 19 (IANS) The Congress on Friday termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's concern for the Sabarimala tradition "a bluff", and promised to bring in laws to protect the sanctity of the Lord Ayyappa shrine if voted to power. | 19-Apr-2019 |
Priyanka, Smriti in Wayanad on Saturday | Wayanad (Kerala), April 19 (IANS) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi and Union Minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani will on Saturday visit Wayanad in Kerala from where Congress President Rahul Gandhi is contesting the Lok Sabha elections. | 19-Apr-2019 |
Priyanka Chaturvedi joins Shiv Sena, sla | Mumbai, April 19 (IANS) In an election season jolt to the Congress, its spokesperson Priyanka V. Chaturvedi formally joined the Shiv Sena in the presence of party chief Uddhav Thackeray here on Friday. | 19-Apr-2019 |
Will contest next Assembly elections: Ra | Chennai, April 19 (IANS) Actor-politician Rajinikanth on Friday said his party will surely contest the next Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. | 19-Apr-2019 |
Party-hopper Jagmeet Brar joins SAD; Ama | Chandigarh, April 19 (IANS) Having remained with the Congress and the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) earlier, former MP Jagmeet Singh Brar on Friday joined the opposition Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in Punjab. | 19-Apr-2019 |
Bangladeshi actor seen at poll rally ask | New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) The Indian government on Thursday asked one more Bangladeshi actor, Ghazi Abdul Noor, who was seen at a Trinamool Congress rally in West Bengal earlier this week, to leave the country after it was found that his visa has expired. | 18-Apr-2019 |
Congress questions suspension over PM ch | New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Ahmed Patel on Thursday asked the Election Commission (EC) why did it suspend a General Observer for allegedly checking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's helicopter in Odisha's Sambalpur on Tuesday. | 18-Apr-2019 |
Polling picks up post-noon to 38.4% in K | Bengaluru, April 18 (IANS) Unfazed by the summer heat and dust, voters turned out in large numbers post-noon to register 38.4 per cent average polling till 3:00 p.m. in Karnataka's 14 Lok Sabha constituencies, an official said on Thursday. | 18-Apr-2019 |
Shoe hurled at BJP spokesperson | New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) A shoe was hurled on Thursday at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and spokesperson G.V.L. Narasimha Rao, who blamed the Congress for the incident. | 18-Apr-2019 |
LS polls: Rajinikanth, Ajith vote in Che | Chennai, April 18 (IANS) Actor-politician Rajinikanth on Thursday exercised his democratic right here at the polling booth in Stella Maris college. | 17-Apr-2019 |
EC ban on, Yogi lands in Ayodhya, meets | Lucknow, April 17 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is making the most of the 72-hour campaigning ban imposed on him by the Election Commission. | 17-Apr-2019 |
Modi's popularity on test as Karnataka g | Bengaluru, April 17 (IANS) An estimated 2.43 crore electorates will test Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity as 14 out of 28 constituencies in Karnataka go to the polls in the second phase of Lok Sabha elections on Thursday amid tight security. | 17-Apr-2019 |
Rahul performs 'beli tharpanam' for fath | Thiruneli (Kerala) April 17 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday performed "beli tharpanam" in memory of his father former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at a Thiruneli temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu. | 17-Apr-2019 |
Congress leader, 3 policemen held for ro | Dehradun, April 17 (IANS) The Uttarakhand police have arrested a Congress leader and three policemen for allegedly robbing a bag containing Rs one crore, a top police official said on Wednesday. | 17-Apr-2019 |
ED Special Director transferred | New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) In an unusual move, the tenure of Special Director in Enforcement Directorate Vineet Agarwal has been curtailed by the government with immediate effect. | 17-Apr-2019 |
Phase II: Campaigning ends, 50 in fray f | Guwahati, April 16 (IANS) Campaigning for the second phase of the Lok Sabha polls came to an end in Assam on Tuesday. | 16-Apr-2019 |
Campaign ends for second-phase polls in | Kolkata, April 16 (IANS) The campaign drums fell silent for the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal on Tuesday for three parliamentary constituencies that will vote on April 18. | 16-Apr-2019 |
PM 'omitted' details about his property, | New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Congress on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had "omitted" certain details about his property in his affidavits filed during previous elections and wanted the Election Commission to take "thorough cognizance" of it. | 16-Apr-2019 |
EC to decide on Vellore polls on Tuesday | New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Following the seizure of Rs 11.5 crore cash from a warehouse in Tamil Nadu's Vellore district, the Election Commission (EC) is expected to decide the issue of cancelling the election in the Lok Sabha constituency on Tuesday, informed sources said on Monday. | 15-Apr-2019 |
Congress candidates hit back at Mamata's | Kolkata, April 16 (IANS) Hitting back at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for trying to link two of its candidates to the RSS, the Congress on Monday accused her of trying to sow the seed of suspicion among the minorities about the Congress, and reminded her of her past relations with the BJP. | 15-Apr-2019 |
Tripura : 'Poila Baisakh' celebrated wit | Agartala, April 15 (IANS) Before campaigning for the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections ends on Tuesday, some candidates from Tripura East constituency used the 'Poila Baisakh' (Bengali New Year) on Monday to reach out to the electorate personally. | 15-Apr-2019 |
EC puts curbs on Yogi, Mayawati campaign | New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) The Election Commission on Monday barred BSP leader Mayawati and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from campaigning in the Lok Sabha elections for 48 and 72 hours respectively. | 15-Apr-2019 |
'Modi trying to incite communal violence | Srinagar, April 15 (IANS) Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was trying to incite communal violence to win votes. | 15-Apr-2019 |
'Reject Article 370 as Kashmir's connect | New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Calling the issue of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir the biggest challenge before India, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said it cannot be solved until the "failed obsolete thought" of Article 370 as a "loose constitutional connect" between the state and the rest of the country is rejected. | 15-Apr-2019 |
Thunderstorm in Manipur kills 3 women | Imphal, April 15 (IANS) A thunderstorm on Monday killed three women in Manipur and injured over 40 people, including 30 students, government sources said. | 15-Apr-2019 |
BJP government's approval ratings drop b | New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) The net approval rating of the Narendra Modi government has dropped 12 points between March 12 and April 12, according to the CVOTER-IANS tracker. | 15-Apr-2019 |
Modi indulging in mega-loot, imposing me | Kolkata, April 15 (IANS) Accusing the Narendra Modi government of waiving off loans worth Rs 5.56 lakh crore to corporates, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Sunday said it is conducting a "mega-loot" of national resources while imposing "mega-misery" on the common people. | 14-Apr-2019 |
Lalu Prasad Yadav mocks Modi via dubsmas | New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Amid the heated Lok Sabha poll campaigns making the rounds on social media, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) President and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav shared an old dubsmash video of himself mouthing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's words promising "achche din" back in 2014. | 14-Apr-2019 |
BJP lines up Modi, Shah, Yogi for campai | Bhubaneswar, April 14 (IANS) With the campaign for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Odisha picking up, central leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are descending on the state to woo the voters in favour of their party candidates. | 14-Apr-2019 |
Rahul's Bengal rally off after no choppe | Agartala / Kolkata, April 14 (TIWN / IANS) A scheduled election meeting of Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday has been cancelled in northern West Bengal after the Darjeeling district administration denied permission to let his chopper land at the Police Ground in Siliguri, a Congress leader said. | 13-Apr-2019 |
BJP government's approval ratings drop b | Agartala / New Delhi, April 14 (TIWN / IANS) The net approval rating of the Narendra Modi government has dropped 12 points between March 12 and April 12, according to the CVOTER-IANS tracker. | 13-Apr-2019 |
Goa Congress demands police complaint ag | Panaji, April 13 (IANS) In a complaint to the EC, the Goa Congress on Saturday demanded to file a police complaint against BJP President Amit Shah, accusing him of making a communal statement by "threatening" to weed out all infiltrators in India, barring Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs. | 13-Apr-2019 |
Election Commission has no credibility: | New Delhi, April 13 (TIWN / IANS) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday said the Election Commission has lost its credibility as it functions on the instructions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his office. | 13-Apr-2019 |
Priyanka attacks BJP for instructor's su | New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Saturday attacked the BJP for its instructor's suicide case in Uttar Pradesh saying that the ruling party had brought its employees to a position where they were forced to commit suicide. | 13-Apr-2019 |
Naidu visits EC to complain EVM malfunct | New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP President N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday visited the EC office here to complain the malfunctioning of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during polling in the state on Thursday. | 13-Apr-2019 |
Congress complains to EC against Modi, I | New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) The Congress on Friday moved the Election Commission against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah for allegedly "dragging" the armed forces in politics repeatedly. | 13-Apr-2019 |
SC on poll bonds: Centre should be free | New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday directed all political parties to furnish details of donations received via electoral bonds, a contention opposed by the Centre, but the court reaffirmed that "government must be allowed a free hand to implement the measure in execution of policies framed". | 12-Apr-2019 |
Notice issued to Maneka Gandhi for commu | Lucknow, April 12 (IANS) Union Minister Maneka Gandhi was on Friday issued a show-cause notice after she kicked off a major controversy when she told the Muslims in Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh to vote for her if they wanted her to get their work done after she wins from the constituency. | 12-Apr-2019 |
Congress attacks Smriti over academic qu | New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Congress on Friday accused Union Minister Smriti Irani of furnishing "contradictory information" about her educational qualifications in the affidavits filed during various elections since 2004. | 12-Apr-2019 |
Maoists blow up three buildings in Jhark | Ranchi, April 12 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas blew up three building of the forest department in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district on Friday, police said. | 12-Apr-2019 |
Modi prods Pawar again to attack Congres | Ahmednagar (Maharashtra), April 12 (TIWN / IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday again nudged NCP President Sharad Pawar to denounce a proposal to make two "Prime Ministers" - one for Jammu and Kashmir and another for India as propounded by some Congress allies. | 12-Apr-2019 |