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Patna: More than 51 percent of the more than three lakh voters exercised their franchise till 5 pm on Wednesday in the by-election on Bihar's Rupauli assembly seat, an official said.Voting started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.The by-election was necessitated by the resignation of...

Patna: More than 42 percent of the more than three lakh voters exercised their franchise till 3 pm on Wednesday in the by-election on Bihar's Rupauli assembly seat, an official said.Voting started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.The by-election was necessitated after the resignation of...

Patna: An official said that 18.48 percent voting took place till 11 am in the by-election on Bihar's Rupauli assembly seat on Wednesday.Voting started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.More than three lakh voters are eligible to exercise their franchise to decide the fate of 11 candidates...

Patna/Purnia: 9.27 percent voting was recorded till 9 am in the by-election on Wednesday in Rupauli assembly seat in Bihar. An officer gave this information.Voting, which started at 7 am, will continue till 6 pm.More than three lakh voters are eligible to decide the fate of 11 candidates...

The seat fell vacant after Bima Bharti resigned to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Purnea, which he lost. Now, Bharti is contesting the assembly by-election on an RJD ticket, after being elected as the JD(U) candidate in the 2020 assembly elections.The JD(U) has fielded Kaladhar Mandal as...

London, Thursday's general election in the United Kingdom is expected to result in the most diverse Parliament in the country's history, including the number of MPs of Indian descent likely to be elected across the country.According to an analysis by British think tank Future, Labor will have...

Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], Himachal Pradesh BJP on Saturday expelled BJP state co-media in-charge Harpreet Singh Saini for six years for contesting the by-election against the party's authorized candidate.A BJP release said state party chief Rajiv Bindal has expelled Saini from the...

Speaking to media persons, he said contesting the assembly elections without a 'CM face' would be a risky proposition, creating nervousness among the Congress and Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) allies like the Nationalist Congress Party (SP).Raut said it was because of Thackeray's leadership that the...

In Mumbai, Nationalist Congress Party leader Amol Mitkari has sparked speculation over the possibility of Mahayuti members contesting independently in the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections if each elector insists on demanding 100 seats, which provoked the wrath of the BJP.At an event on...

Among the 523 candidates are 198 women nominees who are contesting the civic elections being held after a gap of 20 years.State Election Commissioner (SEC) T. John Longkumer said no one cast vote in six districts of eastern Nagaland due to the call to boycott voting.“Earlier, 79 candidates...

After the withdrawal of nomination of independent candidate Pradeep Kumar in Hamirpur, now only three candidates are left in the fray.In Nalagarh, independent candidate Gurnam Singh withdrew his nomination papers and now five candidates are contesting the elections.In Dehra, no candidate has...

State Election Commissioner (SEC) T. John Longkumar said that 670 nominations were submitted and later 79 candidates were withdrawn while 64 candidates were elected unopposed.Four nomination papers were rejected during scrutiny.He said no candidate is contesting the municipal council...

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Wednesday hinted that he may contest the Channapatna Assembly bypoll, saying he owes a "debt" to the people of the constituency.Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, Karnataka, Shivakumar said, "Channapatna is in my...

Channapatna seat was earlier represented by Union Heavy Industries and Steel Minister HD Kumaraswamy.Kumaraswamy had resigned after being selected as the Lok Sabha candidate from Mandya.Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, Shivakumar said on Wednesday, “Channapatna is in my heart; This is the...

New Delhi [India], Former President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee has expressed his desire to return to the Congress, which he left to join the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress, in 2021.Mukherjee, who is the MP from Jangipur Lok Sabha seat, said, "I did not get any such work...

Mumbai: The ruling Shiv Sena on Thursday announced support to independent candidate Shivaji Shendge from Mumbai teachers constituency for the Maharashtra Legislative Council elections, triggering a friendly contest with its allies BJP and NCP.Elections will be held on June 26.Sanjay More...

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], BJP MP from Bengaluru South Tejasvi Surya on Thursday thanked the people for re-electing him and pledged to work towards improving the lives of Bengaluruans.In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, Bharatiya Janata Party's Tejasvi Surya won from Bengaluru...

"I am not contesting the assembly elections. I am absolutely clear on this. I will help my party, I will lead the campaign, but I will not enter the Union Territory Assembly," the senior leader said in an interview on Monday. " Jammu and Kashmir."Omar Abdullah, an independent candidate from...

Chandigarh, From being a one-time RSS worker to being elected chief minister in 2014 to being removed by his confidant ten years later, 70-year-old Manohar Lal Khattar has seen it all.He joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh as a permanent member in 1977 and remained with it for 17 years...

New Delhi [India], Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Sunday took oath as a Union Cabinet minister in the NDA government.He was one of the two JD(S) candidates to win the Lok Sabha elections. Kumaraswamy won from Mandya seat.This time, BJP and...