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  Delhi sees nearly 65 percent turnout in triangular contest

  India | April 11, 2014 7:17 IST

  New Delhi : Delhi registered its highest voter turnout Thursday in about three decades at 64.77 percent in a largely triangular contest for its seven parliamentary seats. Balloting was peaceful with no "untoward incident" reported.Delhi

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  Know your candidates: Google launches tool to help voters

  India | April 10, 2014 9:19 IST

  New Delhi: Google has launched a new tool that will allow citizens to get easy access to relevant information about political candidates contesting from their constituency and their incumbent Member of Parliament.The tool has been

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  Two CRPF jawans killed in Bihar before start of polling

  India | April 10, 2014 8:29 IST

  Munger : Two CRPF jawans were killed and three others injured when Maoists triggered an explosive, when they were on way to a polling station in Jamui parliamentary constituency of Bihar early morning, police said.

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  First phase Bihar poll kicks off tomorrow

  India | April 09, 2014 11:27 IST

  Patna : The stage is set for the first of the six-phase Lok Sabha poll in Bihar tomorrow involving six of the total 40 constituencies, all located in the Naxal belt.  The constituencies going to

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  Polling yet to begin in disputed area in Nagaland

  India | April 09, 2014 10:55 IST

  Kohima: Polling is yet to begin today in a disputed area under Longleng district of Nagaland bordering Assam where security forces have prohibited entry of polling officials and setting up of a polling station.Longleng Superintendent

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  LS Polls 2014: Britain-born wife learning Assamese to campaign for his husband

  India | April 04, 2014 12:44 IST

  Kaliabor: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's son Gaurav, contesting from here, has his own ‘star' campaigner—his Britain-born wife who is learning Assamese fast and using her language skills at few political rallies she has attended.The

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  BJP confident of winning 4 -7 seats in Delhi

  India | April 03, 2014 11:00 IST

  New Delhi: Results from the first phase of the Jan Sampark Abhiyaan by the BJP has brought more confidence as it found its position is quite strong in the national capital.Jan Sampark Abhiyaan is a

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  Revealed: Poll officers offer fake voter IDs for Rs 1,000

  India | April 02, 2014 13:28 IST

  New Delhi: In a startling revelation it came to light that polling officials in Delhi and NCR are ready to facilitate bogus voting in exchange for money. Some officers even went to the extent of

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  Son syndrome evident in LS polls in Karnataka

  India | April 02, 2014 11:18 IST

  Bangalore: Call it “son stroke” or a generational shift in Karnataka politics; it is all evident in the Lok Sabha elections in the state.A few old guards are paving the way for their sons to

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  Gadkari, Munde requested me not to contest LS polls, says Raj Thackeray

  India | April 01, 2014 8:29 IST

  Pune: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray said on Monday night that BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari and Gopinath Munde had approached him with a request not to contest Lok Sabha elections to avoid division

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  133 FIRs against parties for poll code violations in Delhi

  India | March 29, 2014 7:24 IST

  New Delhi :  A total of 133 first information reports (FIRs) have been registered against various political parties for infringing the model code of conduct prior to the Lok Sabha polls in Delhi, said poll

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  It's boom time for detective agencies in run up to LS polls

  India | March 27, 2014 14:16 IST

  New Delhi: With campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls gaining momentum, private detective agencies are having a boom time as they are being hired on a large scale by candidates and parties to keep a

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  Read BJP list of candidates for LS polls, Odisha assembly polls

  Politics | March 24, 2014 7:25 IST

  New Delhi: The BJP central election committee yesterday approved the lists of candidates for remaining seats of Lok Sabha elections and Odisha assembly polls. Following is the list of candidates for LS polls:  Maharashtra Nandurbar

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  Six, including P.A. Sangma, file nominations in Meghalaya

  India | March 22, 2014 9:11 IST

  Shillong : Six candidates, including former Lok Sabha speaker Purno Agitok Sangma and union minister Vincent H. Pala filed nomination papers Friday for the Lok Sabha elections in Meghalaya, an Election Commission official said.Meghalaya has

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  50 file nominations in Karnataka for LS polls

  India | March 21, 2014 7:20 IST

  Bangalore : About 50 candidates belonging to national and regional parties as well as independents filed nominations for the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka slated for April 17."Since we notified the polls Wednesday, 50 candidates

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  21 file papers in Karnataka for April 17 LS polls

  India | March 20, 2014 7:12 IST

  Bangalore : A total of 21 candidates filed their nomination papers Wednesday after the Election Commission notified single phase elections April 17 to the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka.Among noted candidates filing papers on

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  BJP may field 4 women from Delhi for LS polls

  India | March 11, 2014 8:31 IST

  New Delhi: The BJP is trying to pull out all stops this time to garner women's votes in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Sources said, the party is going to field four women as candidates

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  NPF nominates first candidate outside Nagaland for LS polls

  India | March 11, 2014 6:46 IST

  Kohima: In a bid to field its candidate for the first time outside Nagaland in the Lok Sabha polls, Naga People's Front has nominated party's Manipur president and former deputy chief minister Soso Lorho for

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  BJP-led NDA will bag 300 plus seats in LS polls: Naqvi

  Politics | March 10, 2014 19:06 IST

  Bhopal: BJP Vice-President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today claimed the NDA will win 300 plus seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as the people want a stable alternative.“There is an atmosphere of change in the

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  Another party sprouts in AP ahead of LS polls

  India | March 08, 2014 9:25 IST

  Hyderabad : Every general election since 2004 has been seeing the foray of one or two new parties into the political battlefield in Andhra Pradesh.  If it was Telangana Rashtra Samiti in 2004 and Praja