Sri Lanka’s parliamentary polls to be held on June 20
Colombo, April 21 (IANS) Sri Lanka’s Elections Commission has announced it would conduct the country’s parliamentary polls on June 20. The polls were initially planned...
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S.Korean ruling party wins landslide victory in parliamentary polls
Seoul, April 16 (IANS) South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s ruling Democratic Party won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections held amid the COVID-19 pandemic, preliminary...
SKoreans head to polls amid COVID-19 outbreak
Seoul, April 15 (IANS) South Korean voters went to the polls for parliamentary election on Wednesday amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the National Election Commission said....
Chandrababu calls PM a statesman in first phone call after polls
Amaravati, April 14 (IANS) In his first telephone conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi since the bitterly fought elections a year ago, Telugu Desam Party...
Jagan government sacks SEC amid row over local body polls
Amaravati, April 10 (IANS) Cracking the whip, the Andhra Pradesh government Friday removed N. Ramesh Kumar as the State Election Commissioner (SEC) soon after issuing...
AP govt sacks SEC amid row over local body polls
Amaravati, April 10 (IANS) In a significant development, Andhra Pradesh government on Friday removed N. Ramesh Kumar as the State Election Commissioner (SEC) soon after...
Economic issue not Tablighi connect will have political fallout in 2021 TN polls
Chennai, April 7 (IANS) Worried about the social alienation of their community because of anti-Muslim messages in the social media and ‘categorisation by the government...
Local body polls in NE India put off indefinitely
Agartala/Guwahati, March 27 (IANS) Various polls to the autonomous and local bodies in several northeastern region have been postponed indefinitely due to the situation arising...
EC defers RS polls to 3 seats in Rajasthan
Jaipur, March 24 (IANS) The March 26 elections to three Rajya Sabha seats in Rajasthan have been deferred in the wake of coronavirus epidemic, according...
Voting in Dhaka by-polls amid COVID-19 pandemic
Dhaka, March 21 (IANS) Voting took place in the by-polls to the Dhaka-10 parliamentary seat on Saturday amid the global coronavirus pandemic. More than 312,000...
COVID-19: Goa SEC cancels March 24 ZP polls; board exams postponed
Panaji, March 20 (IANS) In wake of the coronavirus scare, the March 24 elections to 50 Zila Panchayat seats were cancelled on Friday by the...
After MP defeat, Congress focuses on Raj, Gujarat RS polls
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) With the exit of the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh led by Kamal Nath after it was reduced to a...
Parrikar’s son slams Goa CM’s insistence on ZP polls
Panaji, March 20 (IANS) It is not just the Opposition and civil society which has vociferously opposed the BJP-led coalition government’s insistence to conduct Zilla...
ZP polls postponed to March 24 due to ‘janata curfew’: Goa CM
Panaji, March 20 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant late on Thursday announced that the March 22 Zilla Panchayat polls had been postponed to March...
Army recovers cache of arms ahead of BTC polls in Assam
Guwahati, March 18 (IANS) Weeks ahead of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) polls, the Indian Army and Assam police in a joint raid busted a...
4 Trinamool, one Congress-Left nominee win RS polls from Bengal
Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) Four Trinamool Congress candidates and the sole Left-Congress backed nominee were formally elected unopposed for the five Rajya Sabha seats from...
Coronavirus delays polls in 6 municipalities in Rajasthan
Jaipur, March 18 (IANS) The upcoming civic elections scheduled on April 5 in six municipal corporations, including Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota have been postponed by...
Digvijaya trying to influence RS polls: BJP to EC
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) In the latest twist to the constantly unfolding political drama in Madhya Pradesh, the BJP has complained to the Election...
Covid-19: M’rashtra puts off all civic polls indefinitely
Mumbai, March 17 (IANS) The State Election Commission on Tuesday indefinitely postponed all upcoming elections to different civic bodies in Maharashtra as a precautionary measure...
Winning booth in ZP polls, true tribute to Parrikar: Goa BJP chief
Panaji, March 17 (IANS) Winning your polling booth in the upcoming March 22 Zilla Panchayat polls, would be a true tribute to former Chief Minister...