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A Hizbul Mujahideen module aiming to disrupt the forthcoming bypoll to the Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag parliamentary constituency was busted with seven militants arrested from Kulgam district on Monday, police said.....

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea by the Yogendra Yadav-led Swaraj India party challenging the Delhi Election Commission's denial of a common symbol to its candidates for the upcoming civic polls.....

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday alleged that the Election Commission and the state government failed to provide a congenial atmosphere for two parliamentary by-polls in the Kashmir Valley. ....

The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Delhi unit on Monday announced the names of 100 more candidates for the upcoming civic polls. ....

Over 77 per cent polling was registered for the Dholpur Assembly by-poll in Rajasthan on Sunday, an official said.....

A record 80 per cent turnout in bypolls to Karnataka's Gundlupet and 76 per cent in Nanjangud (reserved) assembly constituencies on Sunday.....

Arson and firing were reported from many places on Sunday as 60 per cent of the voters exercised their franchise in Ater assembly seat by-poll in Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh. The voting percentage was 65 for Bandhavgarh seat in Umaria district.....

West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress has established a comfortable lead with the BJP moving up to the second position by displacing the Left Front (LF) in the ongoing counting for the Kanthi Dakshin assembly seat by-polls on Thursday.....

The Bharatiya Janata Party is wins from Bandhavgarh assembly constituencies in Madhya Pradesh where by-election was held on April 9, early trends showed as counting of votes began at 8 a.m. on Thursday.....

Ahead of the BJP National Executive meeting, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday said Odisha will be a laboratory for testing of the BJP-led central government's pro-poor policies. ....