The barrage of celebrity propaganda to “get out there to vote” had an impact in Mumbai. Voting fell by 6 per cent. Well, okay, that’s being facetious. But had the voting risen, it would certainly have been credited in good measure to the celebrity...

he Mayawati magic in Uttar Pradesh fading? There is reason to believe that the formidable social alliance that had swept the Dalit firebrand to power in India’s most populous state by far has started fraying at the edges. This may well puncture her...

Polling booths opened at 7:00am (0130 GMT), with voting in most districts set to end at 5:00pm. Among the nine states voting are parts of impoverished Bihar and populous Uttar Pradesh in the north, Gujarat in the west, the southern agricultural state...

Even before the mysteriously timed judicial intervention materialised four days before Gujarat went to the polls, Chief Minister Narendra Modi had come to define the election scene in the State. His personality, political persona and administrative...

The leaders of the MPP met the election commissioner Navin Chawla at the ECI conference hall in New Delhi this evening around 4.30 pm. The team will return to Imphal tomorrow, a source said. Meanwhile, as a part of the line of action taken up by the...

Kashmir’s main separatist alliance has called on the people of the region to boycott India’s ongoing general elections. The decision by the All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference on Friday prompted the authorities to place two separatist...

Mumbai: The special sessions court at the Arthur Road jail on Friday ordered an enquiry into the age of Ajmal, the accused in the Mumbai terror attack case, to determine whether he is a major or a minor. Accordingly, medical examinations comprising a...

Panaji: “The Left parties are not averse to joining a Third Front government to ensure its stability, if the formation comes to power post-election,” stated A. B. Bardhan, general secretary of Communist Party of India here on Tuesday.

Jorhat (Assam), Apr 21 (ANI): Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi refuted charges of a “weak government” against the UPA Government made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “During elections, the BJP raises new issues and says...

LUCKNOW: In a strong rejoinder to the BJP prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani’s charge that Manmohan Singh is a weak and indecisive Prime Minister, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday said the so-called “strong leader” was incapable of...