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Oppn citadels on BJP radar

Lucknow, March 18 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) faces the two-pronged tasks of retaining its bastions in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls while penetrating opposition citadels that evaded it even during... Read More


RLD out to win back Baghpat

Lucknow, March 18 -- Winning back its former pocket borough Baghpat is among the Rashtriya Lok Dal's (RLD) top concerns in the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh, where voting will be held in seven phas... Read More


BJP's new pitch for South India

India, March 18 -- Just as the Election Commission of India was announcing the polling dates, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was addressing rallies in Karnataka and Telangana, castigating the Opposition... Read More


National, state issues to play out in tandem in Arunachal, Sikkim

Guwahati/Siliguri, March 18 -- The northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim will vote for their respective assemblies and Lok Sabha simultaneously, in a single phase, on April 19, the Elect... Read More


65k paramilitary personnel tobe sent to Bengal for LS polls

New Delhi, March 18 -- The Centre will send nearly 65,000 personnel from paramilitary forces to West Bengal for security arrangements during the Lok Sabha elections, making it the largest deployment a... Read More


2 BRS MPs, MLA join Congress in Telangana

Hyderabad, March 18 -- The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) suffered a massive jolt on Sunday when two of its MPs - Pasunuri Dayakar from Warangal and G Ranjith Reddy from Chevella - and Khairatabad MLA D... Read More


between march 2018 and jan 2024, BJP redeemed 50% of the donations, reveals EC data

NEW DELHI, March 18 -- Electoral bonds worth Rs.16,492 crore were redeemed in the thirty phases of their sale between March 1, 2018 and January 11, 2024 and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) redeemed 5... Read More


Cong faces uphill task in making alliance work in its favour

LUCKNOW, March 18 -- The Congress may have entered a seat-sharing agreement with the Samajwadi Party for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. However, it faces a significant challenge of extending the allian... Read More


Akhilesh skips Rahul's Mumbai rally, cites poll preparations

Lucknow, March 18 -- Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav skipped Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's rally in Mumbai on Sunday and cited declara- tion of the Lok Sabha poll sch- edule an... Read More


Beneficiaries of govt schemes to be game changers for BJP again?

Lucknow, March 18 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Yogi Adityanath have adopted the punchline of "Assi mein Assi (80 of 80)" Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh for the 2024 Lok Sabha p... Read More