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After several Congress leaders and MLAs recently joined the BJP in poll-bound Manipur, the ruling BJP received another boost on Thursday when a prominent Manipuri film star R.K Somendro Singh, popularly known as Kaiku, joined the saffron party along with 40 co-actors and associates from the film community. ....
Incumbent Charanjit Singh Channi will be the Congress' Chief Ministerial candidate in the high-stakes Punjab Assembly elections on February 20, senior party leader Rahul Gandhi announced on Sunday.....
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday took a gentle swipe at her own male party leaders in Goa, while trying to highlight the significance of the party's decision to allocate a large number of tickets in the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh to women. ....
Speaking about the ongoing hijab row in India, Nobel laureate and education rights activist Malala Yousafzai has said that the "objectification of women -- for wearing less or more -- persists", Geo News reported. ....
Polling has begun for one of the most fiercely contested electoral battles in Uttar Pradesh. ....
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has offered a cash reward of Rs 50,000 on each of the seven more absconding accused in connection with the murder case of a BJP worker Abhijit Sarkar in the West Bengal post-poll violence case. ....
Uttar Pradesh saw a 60.31 per cent turnout, till 5 p.m., in the second phase of Assembly polls on Monday, while there was 59.37 per cent polling in Uttarakhand and 75.29 per cent in Goa in their single-phase elections. ....
While addressing a rally in Punjab’s Pathankot ahead of the February 20 Assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party, alleging that they are “partners in crime”. ....
An average 36 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 11 a.m. in the fourth phase of the Panchayat polls underway in 163 Zilla Parishad zones spread over 64 blocks of Odisha, an official said here on Tuesday. An average 36 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 11 a.m. in the fourth phase of the Panchayat polls underway in 163 Zilla Parishad zones spread over 64 blocks of Odisha, an official said here on Tuesday. ....
Uttar Pradesh has recorded 49.89 per cent voting till 3 p.m. for the phase IV of the assembly polls, the data released by the Election Commission on Wednesday said. ....