Mumbai: Polling began Wednesday morning in the Maharashtra assembly elections, where the ruling BJP-led Mahayuti alliance is vying to retain power and the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) combine is hoping for a strong comeback. Voting began in all the 288 assembly seats at 7 am and will end at 6 pm, an election official said….
Jammu: Minister of State for Railways Ravneet Singh on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will likely inaugurate Vande Bharat train connecting Kashmir to New Delhi on the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) in January. According to officials, the Vande Bharat Express train will directly connect the national capital to the valley starting January 2025. The…
Mumbai: Police on Tuesday registered two FIRs against BJP general secretary Vinod Tawde, party candidate Rajan Naik, and others in connection with the alleged distribution of cash to voters at a hotel in Palghar a day before the Maharashtra polls, an official said. The cases were registered at the Tulinj police station in the district…
New Delhi: Former chief election commissioner S Y Quraishi on Tuesday claimed that the exit polls are patently illegal and they are happening before the eyes of the Election Commission (EC). Addressing the G V G Krishnamurthy Memorial Lecture here, he asked when the conduct of exit polls is banned during the “prohibited period” —…
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday reviewed arrangements and facilities in the Parliament House complex ahead of the Winter session beginning November 25. Birla inspected the Lok Sabha chamber, corridors, lobbies, waiting rooms, media facilities and other key areas, the Lok Sabha secretariat said. Birla noted that several significant events will be…
Bhubaneshwar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are scheduled to attend the three-day All-India Conference of Director Generals/Inspector Generals of Police to be held in Bhubaneswar from November 29, official sources said on Tuesday. Apart from the PM and Union Home Minister, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and other senior…
Ranchi: Jharkhand is geared up for polling in 38 of the total 81 assembly seats in the second and final phase on Wednesday, when the electoral fate of 528 candidates, including Chief Minister Hemant Soren, his wife Kalpana Soren both (both JMM) and Leader of Opposition Amar Kumar Bauri (BJP) will be decided. The ruling…
Mumbai: The Bahujan Vikas Aghadi on Tuesday accused BJP general secretary Vinod Tawde of distributing Rs five crore to woo voters, a day before the Maharashtra assembly elections, a claim the BJP leader denied, saying he was only providing guidance to party workers on poll procedures. Videos of the “cash distribution”, many of them shot…
Lucknow: The stage is set for bypolls in nine assembly seats of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday with stakes high for both the BJP and the Samajwadi Party in the first electoral contest after the Lok Sabha polls. While the Congress is not contesting and supporting its INDIA bloc partner Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party…
New Delhi: Stakes could not be higher for several regional heavyweights in Maharashtra as the state goes to the polls on Wednesday in what promises to be a make-or-break election for satraps like Sharad Pawar, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, his predecessor Uddhav Thackeray and deputy CM Ajit Pawar. The two Pawars, Shinde and Thackeray are…
