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  Study to decode how WhatsApp fake news is influencing Indian voters

  India | May 12, 2019 12:55 IST

  According to UK-based Indian researcher Sayan Banerjee, fake news does not change people's political opinions, but rather reinforces the existing beliefs and brings out the worst impulses within us.

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  Can Narendra Modi meet the huge expectations of his voters?

  Politics | December 09, 2014 17:40 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed 6 months of his tenure in South Block on November 26, 2014. In order to analyze how he has evolved as Prime Minister  in the first six months

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  Millions vote in sixth round of Indian election

  India | April 17, 2014 14:17 IST

  New Delhi: Millions poured into polling centres across 12 states Thursday in the sixth round of general election to pick 121 members to the Lok Sabha, officials said.An estimated 25 percent of the 197 million

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  India now has 814 million voters

  Politics | February 23, 2014 22:58 IST

  New Delhi: India's electoral size has grown 34.45 percent from 1998 to reach a whopping 814.5 million now, an official statement said Sunday.The country had 605.8 million voters in 1998.Overall, Dadra and Nagar Haveli at

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  Indians vote like sheep and cattle: Markandey Katju

  Politics | March 31, 2013 6:59 IST

  New Delhi, March 31:  India is not a full-fledged democracy as 90 percent of its people vote like sheep and cattle, Press Council of India chairman Justice Markandey Katju said here Saturday.Speaking to TV channel