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Chennai, April 12 – The Election Commission will begin distributing voter identification slips (also known as booth slips) across Tamil Nadu starting Sunday, a key step in preparing for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections scheduled for April 23.Polling Level Officers (PLOs) will conduct...

New Delhi, April 12 – Polling for the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) General Election 2026 is scheduled for Sunday across all 28 constituencies in Tripura, with authorities putting in place extensive arrangements to ensure a smooth and peaceful voting process.A total...

Malappuram, April 11 Malappuram District Collector Vinay Goyal on Saturday said that reports circulating regarding the strong rooms where voting machines are stored after the April 9 Assembly elections are "incorrect and misleading".In a statement, the District Election Officer clarified that...

Kannur (Kerala), April 11 An all-party meeting convened by the Additional District Magistrate (ADM) on Saturday, in the wake of post-poll violence in the Payyannur constituency here, decided that strict action would be taken to curb further provocations and that cases would be registered in all...

Kottayam (Kerala), April 11 The Kottayam District Collector on Saturday dismissed media reports that CAPF personnel pointed guns at election officials at the strong room located in the Baselius College here.District Collector Chetan Kumar Meena, who is also the District Election Officer, in a...

Patna, April 11 – Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, the National Working President of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), alleging that its leaders seek to impose their RSS ideological agendas in place of the country’s constitutional values...

Puri, April 11 Campaign posters written in Bengali and appealing to voters in West Bengal have appeared throughout this coastal pilgrimage town in Odisha, drawing criticism over the alleged politicization of the sacred place.The posters, put up by the ruling BJP and bearing the party's "lotus"...

New Delhi, April 11 The combined voter list of nine states and three Union territories has been reduced by 10.2 per cent following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise carried out by the Election Commission, with over 60 lakh deceased voters removed, according to data shared by the poll...

Lucknow, April 11 More than 2.04 crore voters have been removed from the electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. The deletions are primarily concentrated in urban areas, with a significant proportion involving female voters.According to data...

Patna, April 11 RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav alleged on Saturday that the BJP and RSS were attempting to change the Constitution and replace democracy with dictatorship.Addressing a programme organised by the RJD minority cell in Patna, the leader of the opposition in the assembly called on party...

Bengaluru, April 11 Former Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda criticized Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, alleging that the latter does not genuinely uphold the principles of social justice.Addressing the Greater Bengaluru JDS convention, the 93-year-old Deve Gowda remarked that the Chief...

Hyderabad, April 11 RPI (Athawale) president and Union Minister Ramdas Athawale expressed confidence on Saturday that the BJP and NDA would come to power in West Bengal, Assam, Puducherry, and Tamil Nadu, while the NDA also had a favorable atmosphere in Kerala.Alleging that law and order has...

Chennai, Apr 11 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin has said that his party-led alliance will win over 200 seats in the April 23 Assembly polls, and launched a blistering attack on his rival Edappadi K Palaniswami and the BJP on a number of issues, particularly accusing the saffron party of...

Agartala, April 11 Preparations for the Tripura tribal council elections have been completed, with election officials being dispatched to booths with election materials, an official said on Saturday.Polling for the 28-seat Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) council is...

Thiruvananthapuram, April 11 A church-supported Malayalam daily published a strongly worded editorial on Saturday, criticizing "political opportunists" amid the ongoing controversy over proposed amendments to the FCRA.The BJP disapproved of the contents in the editorial, while the Congress...

New Delhi, April 11 Veteran CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat expressed confidence on Saturday that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) would retain power in Kerala, saying early reports from the election process indicated a favorable outcome for the alliance.Asked about the recently held assembly...

New Delhi, April 11 – A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking the cancellation of the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, alleging large-scale voter bribery through cash, gifts, liquor, and other inducements by major political parties, and accusing the Election Commission...

Chennai, April 11 – With just days remaining for campaigning ahead of the April 23 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) leader, Joseph Vijay, will address a large public rally in the Kanyakumari district tomorrow (Sunday) as part of his statewide campaign.Vijay is...

Chennai, April 11 – The DMK-led alliance is expected to win more than 200 seats in the April 23 assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, according to DMK president and Chief Minister M K Stalin. He also accused the AIADMK of being influenced by Delhi, lacking ideology and principle, and that the Delhi...

Thiruvananthapuram, April 11 Congress leader K Muraleedharan said on Saturday that no community should be blamed for not voting for a particular party.He was responding to questions regarding BJP leader P C George and his son Shone George, who criticized the Catholic church, its bishops, and a...