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Battleground 2024: After longest poll campaign, top leaders head to temples

As the campaigning ended for the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha polls, the PM began his 45-hour long meditation at Kanniyakumari's Vivekananda Rock Memorial

Lok Sabha elections: Giant in the ring, heavyweights head to Varanasi

Rallying support for PM, top BJP leaders are camping in the city; INDIA bloc gears up for Rahul-Akhilesh show

Lok Sabha elections: Purvanchal battle isn't easy for BJP and allies

As the political drama unfolds, one thing is clear -- the labyrinthine bylanes of Varanasi hold no easy answers

Lok Sabha elections: Can Rashtriya Janata Dal break the Pataliputra jinx?

According to locals, Ram Kripal is accessible while RJD's Misa Bharti is not

Phase 6 of Lok Sabha elections: J&K shines but Haryana disappoints

The EC pointed out that the voter turnout in the districts of Anantnag, Poonch, Kulgam, and districts of Rajouri and Shopian partially, was the highest since 1989, or in 35 years

Battleground 2024: Stage set in Delhi as 58 seats go to polls in Phase VI

Anantnag, Puri, Sultanpur in focus; all 7 seats in Delhi, 10 in Haryana to vote

Lok Sabha elections: Royal scion faces a 'filmy' challenge in Gurgaon seat

In 1957, freedom fighter and independent India's first Education Minister, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, represented the seat

Lok Sabha polls: Women voters outnumber men in fifth phase of polls

More of the women electorate have voted in both Odisha and Jharkhand as well in the two phases of polling that have taken place in these states since May 13

BJP's Bansuri against AAP's Bharti: Two lawyers battling for New Delhi

Bharti, a three-term legislator, would hope the AAP's responsive civic governance and the sympathy for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would help him win the contest

Spent their lives concealing sins of Cong: PM's jibe at 'Khan Market gang'

He also accused them and all their current allies of perpetrating the anti-Sikh riots of 1984

Lok Sabha elections 2024: 8,360 candidates in fray, highest since 1996

There were 8054 candidates in 2019 and 8251 in 2014, according to the Election Commission's 2019 'Atlas'

Socio-cultural milieu can't be a casualty to polls: EC to BJP, Cong prez

The EC directed BJP President JP Nadda to inform its star campaigners to not make divisive speeches and refrain from any campaigning methods or utterances along religious or communal lines

Battleground 2024: Have no waaris other than Indians, says PM Modi

Addressing a public meeting in Bihar's Maharajganj, which will poll in the sixth phase on May 25, the PM said the poorest of the people nurse a desire to leave something behind for their heirs

2024 Lok Sabha elections: Hooda clan fights to reclaim citadel in Rohtak

The slim margin of Deepender's defeat was the only silver lining for the Congress in the 2019 battle. It lost all ten seats to the BJP in Haryana

FM Nirmala Sitharaman blames Cong for de-industrialisation of Bihar

She said that from 2004 to 2014, via tax devolution as per the Finance Commission formula, Bihar received Rs 2.04 trn but under the Modi government, it received Rs 7.07 trn in 2014-2024 so far

2024 Lok Sabha elections: It's a battle of the scions in Allahabad

Over the years, Allahabad has elected Purushottam Das Tandon, Lal Bahadur Shastri, V P Singh, Janeshwar Mishra, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, and Murli Manohar Joshi

5th phase of Lok Sabha polling: J&K's Baramulla beats key urban centres

At 42 per cent, Kalyan in Maharashtra registered the worst voter turnout among all 49 seats

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal leads AAP protest, but Congress, BJP hit back

With the AAP leadership accusing Maliwal of working at the behest of the BJP, people within the party have questioned efforts to malign her

Phase 5: Rae Bareli, Lucknow among 49 Lok Sabha seats to vote on Monday

The Election Commission on Sunday said 89.5 million electors would be eligible to cast their voters on the 49 seats. Simultaneous polling for 35 Assembly seats will be held in Odisha

Battleground 2024: PM Modi's first Delhi address to see two dozen diplomats

Apart from party-organised visits, several diplomats are travelling on their own to get a first-hand experience of election campaigning in the world's largest democracy