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

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

    Elections | Jan 09, 2020, 09:05 AM 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.

  • Congress wins students' union elections in Varanasi

    Congress wins students' union elections in Varanasi

    Elections | Jan 09, 2020, 08:21 AM 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).

  • Delhi to go to polls on Feb 8; results on Feb 11

    Delhi to go to polls on Feb 8; results on Feb 11

    Jan 06, 2020, 05:22 PM IST

    Delhi Assembly elections 2020 will be held on February 8 and the counting of votes will take place on February 11, the Election Commission today announced.

  • Israel calls for another general election on March 2, 2020

    Israel calls for another general election on March 2, 2020

    World | Dec 12, 2019, 10:36 AM IST

    Israelis will return to the ballot box for the third consecutive national election in 11 months on March 2, 2020 after the country's top leaders have again failed to build a governing coalition.

  • Thorough inquiry should be made: P Chidambaram on Hyderabad encounter

    Thorough inquiry should be made: P Chidambaram on Hyderabad encounter

    India | Dec 06, 2019, 04:56 PM IST

    The Congress leader was in the city to take part in the party's poll campaign. "This election in Jharkhand will mark an important turning point -- the BJP on the one side and the secular- progressive parties on the other. Eighty-one members will run the state and I appeal to the people of Jharkhand to remain focused on who will be these 81 people," he said. Urging the people of the state to vote for the opposition alliance, he said the Congress has dented the BJP in Haryana and denied it power in Maharashtra.

  • Bengal by-poll: Counting begins in three constituencies

    Bengal by-poll: Counting begins in three constituencies

    Elections | Nov 28, 2019, 09:08 AM IST

    Around 78 per cent of over seven lakh electorate had cast their votes in the by-polls to Kaliaganj, Karimpur and Kharagpur Sadar Assembly seats where 18 candidates were in the fray.

  • Religious polarisation, NRC key factors in upcoming West Bengal bypolls (Representational image)

    Religious polarisation, NRC key factors in upcoming West Bengal bypolls

    Elections | Nov 24, 2019, 10:04 PM IST

    Religious polarisation, National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the vote-catching capacity of a renewed Congress-Left Front alliance could be the game changers as principal rivals Trinamool Congress and the BJP battle it out in the bypolls to three Assembly seats in West Bengal to be held on Monday.

  • Democrats respond to Obama's 2020 election warning

    Democrats respond to Obama's 2020 election warning

    World | Nov 18, 2019, 11:43 AM IST

    Obama, who was in office from 2009 to 2017, said "ordinary Americans" didn't want to "completely tear down the system".

  • Ivanka Trump to AP: Impeachment aimed at undoing 2016 election results

    Ivanka Trump to AP: Impeachment aimed at undoing 2016 election results

    World | Nov 08, 2019, 03:55 PM IST

    Ivanka Trump is weighing in on the House impeachment inquiry of her father from half a world away in Morocco. President Donald Trump’s daughter and White House adviser tell The Associated Press she shares her father’s view that the impeachment investigation is about “overturning the results of the 2016 election.”

  • Election security is top priority: Heads of US agencies,

    Election security is top priority: Heads of US agencies, depts

    World | Nov 06, 2019, 06:32 AM IST

    The top officials asserted that the government will defend democracy and maintain transparency with the American public about its efforts.

  • Manohar lal khattar

    BJP legislative party meeting on Saturday, party claims majority

    Oct 25, 2019, 04:22 PM IST

    The BJP legislative party will meet on Saturday to elect its leader, a formality as the party has already decided that Khattar will head the next government. Khattar said he has got letters of support from Independent MLAs expressing confidence that he will prove his majority in the floor of the House

  • PM Modi to address four rallies in Haryana

    PM Modi to address four rallies in Haryana

    Oct 08, 2019, 08:54 PM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address four poll rallies in Haryana. Of this, he will be addressing two on October 14 in Ballabgarh and Faridabad, and two others in Thanesar and Hisar.

  • After denial of Congress ticket, upset Kamboj files nomination as Independent

    After denial of Cong ticket, Kamboj files nomination as Independent

    Elections | Sep 27, 2019, 06:27 PM IST

    Upset over denial of a Congress ticket from the Jalalabad assembly segment in Punjab, Jagdeep Kamboj on Friday filed nomination papers as Independent.

  • Shurbir Singh appointed Chief Electoral Officer in Puducherry

    Shurbir Singh appointed Chief Electoral Officer in Puducherry

    Elections | Sep 27, 2019, 10:47 AM IST

    Singh is presently Secretary to the territorial government. The Election Commission has sent a communication to Chief Secretary Ashwani Kumar, informing him that Shurbir Singh has been appointed as the next CEO.

  • SP seeks transfers of DMs, SPs from districts with bypoll-bound assembly seats

    SP seeks transfers of DMs, SPs from districts with bypoll-bound states

    Elections | Sep 22, 2019, 08:51 PM IST

    A Samajwadi Party delegation on Sunday met Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer here ahead of the October 21 by-polls and demanded the transfer of incumbent district magistrates and police chiefs to ensure a free and fair election.

  • Hamirpur bypoll: Voters to decide fate of 9 candidates on

    Hamirpur bypoll: Voters to decide fate of 9 candidates on Sep 23

    Elections | Sep 21, 2019, 10:34 PM IST

    The voting will be held from 7 am to 6 pm while counting of votes will take place on September 27.

  • In Kerala's Pala bypoll, rivals rally behind 'Mani Sir'

    In Kerala's Pala bypoll, rivals rally behind 'Mani Sir'

    Elections | Sep 21, 2019, 04:49 PM IST

    K.M.Mani, chief of Kerala Congress (Mani), the third biggest ally of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF), had represented Pala since 1965, when the constituency was formed. He last won Assembly elections in 2016.  

  • Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu fails to win majority in close election

    Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu fails to win majority in close election

    World | Sep 18, 2019, 11:24 PM IST

    Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to win a ruling majority, according to news agency Reuters on Wednesday. The election, which came out as a virtual tie between his right-wing bloc and a centre-left grouping led by former military chief Benny Gantz.

  • PM Netanyahu faces uphill battle after repeat election

    PM Netanyahu faces uphill battle after repeat election

    World | Sep 18, 2019, 06:30 PM IST

    Israel’s two main political parties were deadlocked Wednesday after an unprecedented repeat election, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing an uphill battle to hold on to his job. The election’s seeming political kingmaker, Avigdor Lieberman, said he’ll insist upon a secular unity government between Netanyahu’s Likud and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White parties, who are running neck-and-neck to become the country’s largest party.

  • President Donald Trump has placed racial animus at the center of his reelection campaign, and even s

    Trump leaning on issue of race to win a second term in 2020

    World | Jul 18, 2019, 10:34 AM IST

    The president has proved adroit at crafting a hero-villain narrative and is now focusing on Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan rather than a Democratic presidential candidate. His challenge will be whether he can drive that story line successfully for the next 16 months.  

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