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Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu's Vellore cancelled after cash haul

The Election Commission had two days ago recommended to the President that elections in Vellore be cancelled.

Plea in SC for ensuring safety of EVMs after Lok Sabha elections

The plea said that as alleged it was possible to tamper with the EVMs in broad daylight during post poll situations

'Go out and vote': Game of Thrones goes viral this election season

Coincidentally, the show's finale will air on May 19, the day of the seventh and last phase of polling in Election 2019

Mayawati absent, nephew takes over as campaigning ends for second phase

In his brief speech, nephew Akash thanked supporters for turning up in large numbers

PM Modi lashes out at Naveen Patnaik govt over subsidised rice scheme

The subsidised rice distribution scheme has been a major poll plank for Naveen Patnaik-led BJD govt in previous elections where outcomes immensely favoured the incumbent government

Campaigning ends for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019

The second phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019 will be held on April 18 for 96 seats spread across 12 states and the union territory of Puducherry

PM Narendra Modi slams Rahul Gandhi over 'all Modis are thieves' remark

Addressing a rally, Modi said it has become a fashion for the "naamdar" to speak in derogatory terms

Lok Sabha Elections 2019 LIVE: Rajnath Singh files nomination from Lucknow

The second phase of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections 2019 will take place on April 18 to choose 97 members of Lok Sabha across 13 states

Rajbhar's SBSP parts ways with BJP in Uttar Pradesh, names 39 candidates

Also names the candidates it has fielded against PM Modi in Varanasi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Lucknow

Economic growth to end extreme poverty in India by 2021: Arun Jaitley

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who heads the BJP's publicity department in the election, said the number of people who live in poverty would drop to below 15% in the next three years

In his autumn years, Mulayam Singh Yadav faces an acute political dilemma

As the Yadav clan spars, the SP founder is left an embittered man in his twilight years

Vile & baleful: From BJP to Congress, attacks turn personal in poll season

Campaign managers working with different political parties said often such controversial remarks are strategically made, including at the behest of rivals for obvious gains, to polarise voters

Satisfied over EC ban order against politicians giving hate speeches: SC

Taking note of the EC action, the court said it seems the EC has "woken up" and barred various politicians from poll campaigning for varying hours.

TV serials peddling govt schemes? EC wants political content vetted

Election officials in Maharashtra directed producers of television serials Bhabhiji Ghar Par Hai and Tujhse Hai Raabta to remove content that was deemed to benefit prospects of a political party

BSP supremo Mayawati terms 48-hour EC ban order as 'black day'

The EC on Monday imposed ban on Mayawati for "provocative" communal remarks, which it said had the "propensity to polarise the elections"

EC restrains Adityanath, Mayawati, Azam Khan, Maneka from poll campaigning

Maneka, Azam also 'censured' as SC ticks off poll panel for not acting on leaders over hate speeches

Arvind Kejriwal did U-turn on Delhi seat-sharing, says Rahul Gandhi

AAP sources said the Congress was unwilling to have an alliance

EC bars Maneka, Azam Khan from campaigning after crackdown on Maya, Yogi

Gandhi cannot campaign for 48 for telling Muslims in Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh on Friday that she will not bother about them if they didn't vote for her

Earlier too people spoke of Cong decline, it will never happen: Shinde

On the campaign trail, the former home minister, now 77, speaks to Business Standard on the future of his party, his political opponents and the drinking water shortage in Solapur city

Annu Tandon's journey from RIL to the hard grind of election politics

Tandon herself is proud that she belongs to a party that lets her do the kind of politics she believes in