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  Kamal Nath writes letter to EC, urges for conducting fair Bihar elections

  News | October 26, 2020 18:13 IST

  Addressing a press conference in Bhopal on October 26, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and Congress leader Kamal Nath spoke ahead of Bihar polls.

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  BJP wins 15 seats, Congress 9 in Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council election

  India | October 26, 2020 18:25 IST

  The BJP has won 15 seats, Congress 9 and independent candidates 2 in Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council election which took place on Thursday. BJP, Congress, AAP and 23 Independent candidates contested the polls for 26 seats.

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  Bihar Assembly Poll: How is the poll fever in Khagaria? know from the public

  News | October 22, 2020 14:14 IST

  If we talk about Khagaria, in 2015, Poonam Devi Yadav won the election on JDU ticket.

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  EVMs to be used for 1st time in Leh council polls

  News | October 21, 2020 21:01 IST

  Political campaigning and rallies have been ended ahead of the Leh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) election scheduled to take place on October 22 in which people of the region are going to vote through Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) for

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  Watch: Independent candidate rides on buffalo to file nomination in Darbhanga

  Elections | October 19, 2020 19:54 IST

  On October 19, an independent candidate rode on a buffalo on his way to file nomination paper in Bihar's Darbhanga.

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  New Zealand General Election: Jacinda Ardern set to serve second term as PM after landslide victory

  World | October 17, 2020 16:21 IST

  Marking a landslide victory in the New Zealand General Elections, incumbent Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is set to return for her second term as the head of the country.

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  Sri Lanka issues strict health guidelines for election campaigning

  World | July 18, 2020 12:19 IST

  The Sri Lankan government has issued strict health guidelines for the campaigning for the August 5 parliamentary elections, days after the country's top poll body said it would be "extremely difficult" to conduct the polls as political leaders were defying safety measures to contain the spread of the COVID-19.

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  Don't take voters for granted; even Indira, Atal had lost: Pawar

  India | July 11, 2020 11:42 IST

  Taking aim at the BJP, NCP president Sharad Pawar has said that politicians should not take voters for granted as even powerful leaders like IndiraGandhi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee had been defeated in elections.

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  ECI seeks report on condition of states to decide on elections

  India | July 02, 2020 7:41 IST

  The Election Commission of India (ECI) has asked for a detailed report from the election officials of the states where assembly elections or by-elections are to be held in the coming time. 

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  Karnataka Legislative Council polls to 7 seats on June 29

  Elections | June 09, 2020 15:28 IST

  Elections to seven seats of the Karnataka Legislative Council will be held on June 29, the poll panel announced on Tuesday. 

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  Thae Yong Ho becomes first North Korean defector to win parliamentary seat in South Korea

  World | April 16, 2020 13:01 IST

  A high-profile North Korean defector won a constituency seat in the South Korean general elections, becoming the first person hailing from Pyongyang to be chosen directly by South Korean voters as their representative.

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  Local body polls in Andhra Pradesh postponed amid COVID-19 crisis

  India | March 15, 2020 12:18 IST

  The Andhra Pradesh Election Commission on Sunday announced that the local body elections will be postponed for six weeks as the number of coronavirus cases rises in the country.

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  Bernie Sanders vows to continue bid for presidential nomination

  World | March 12, 2020 10:04 IST

  Shrugging off a string of defeats in the Democratic party polls, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has vowed to continue his bid for the presidential nomination defying pressures to drop out and back former Vice President Joe Biden behind whom many party leaders are rallying.

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  Outgoing Mumbai top cop Sanjay Barve given farewell

  India | February 29, 2020 12:49 IST

  Outgoing Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Barve was given a farewell by his colleagues at Naigaon police station here on Saturday.

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  Indian origin Irish PM Leo Varadkar's party pushed to 3rd place in general election

  World | February 10, 2020 19:15 IST

  Ireland's Indian-origin Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has suffered a huge setback in the general election as his liberal-conservative Fine Gael party took a battering in the face of an unprecedented surge in the fortunes of the nationalist party Sinn Fein.

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  YouTube says won't allow 'deepfake' or 'birther' videos in election

  World | February 04, 2020 15:44 IST

  The Google-owned video service YouTube is reiterating that it won't allow election-related “deepfake” videos and anything that aims to mislead viewers about voting procedures and how to participate in the 2020 census.

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  Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou becomes first woman president of Greece

  World | January 22, 2020 15:31 IST

  Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou, a high court judge has become Greece’s first female president. Sakellaropoulou, 63, has served as president of the Council of State, a top administrative court, for the past 15 months.

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  Pakistani immigrant Neeta Sodha to contest in panchayat elections in Rajasthan

  India | January 17, 2020 9:52 IST

  Neeta Sodha, a Pakistani immigrant who got Indian Citizenship four months back will be contesting panchayat elections in Rajasthan's Natwara.

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  Nagpur Zilla Parishad result a huge boost for Congress in BJP stronghold

  Elections | January 09, 2020 9:05 IST

  The Congress-NCP alliance on Wednesday secured 40 out of the 58 Zilla Parishad seats in Nagpur, dislodging the ruling BJP from the district council. The Congress won 30 seats, while the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) bagged 10.

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  Congress wins students' union elections in Varanasi

  Elections | January 09, 2020 8:21 IST

  The student wing of the Congress, the National Students' Union of India (NSUI) registered a victory on all the four seats in the students' union elections in Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya in Varanasi. It defeated the RSS' student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).