The electoral battle in Maharashtra's Baramati Lok Sabha seat is going to be a closely watched contest between NCP candidates Sunetra Pawar and Supriya Sule, who are vying for victory in the Pawar family's stronghold.
Voting will notably take place in the north-eastern state to elect two Lok Sabha MPs and 50 MLAs. There are 133 candidates in the fray for the assembly constituencies and 14 for Lok Sabha seats.
US State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said on Thursday that the US is eager to continue deepening and strengthening its cooperation with partners in India.
One of the star candidates of the BJP, Nisith Pramanik, who holds the portfolio of the Union Minister of State for Home, is the most prominent candidate from West Bengal in the first phase.
Amid the row over Hyderabad BJP candidate Madhavi Latha allegedly pretending to shoot an arrow at the mosque in Hyderabad during Ram Navami yatra, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi said that they will not accept the BJP-RSS' vulgar and provocative actions.
The Tin Bigha Corridor is a narrow strip of land in West Bengal's Coochbehar that was given as a lease to Bangladesh so that the neighbouring nation could access the Dahagram-Angarpota Bangladeshi enclaves within Indian territory.
Firing a salvo at Union Minister Smriti Irani, who is bidding to win a fresh term in the Lok Sabha from Amethi, Congress national spokesperson Abhay Dubey claimed on Thursday that she would lose the constituency that was regarded as a stronghold of the grand old party before she snapped thei
"It's the BJP's decision who they want to appoint as their candidate. I have no right to speak about that. But, I would say that there is committed leadership that is in touch with their people and then there are those who are like tourists...The way tourists wear regional clothes, get a pic
Maharashtra, the second-largest state after Uttar Pradesh (80), which contributes 48 seats in 543-member Lok Sabha, will witness a fierce contest between the two major state coalitions - the Mahayuti (Bharatiya Janata Party, Shiv Sena, and Nationalist Congress Party) and the Maha Vikas Aghad
After 75 years of independence, poll officials transported electronic voting machines to Alakkattu village of Tamil Nadu by a tractor which was earlier carried by donkeys.