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Kozhikode (Kerala), March 27 CPI(M) leader and CITU national general secretary Elamaram Kareem on Friday alleged that IUML leader M K Muneer was not fielded in the April 9 Assembly elections due to the intervention of Jamaat-e-Islami.The CPI(M) has been alleging links between the UDF and...

Kathmandu, March 27 Balendra Shah 'Balen' was appointed as the Prime Minister of Nepal on Friday, making him the youngest elected leader to hold the top executive position in the Himalayan nation.President Ramchandra Paudel appointed Balen, the parliamentary leader of the Rastriya Swatantra...

Guwahati, March 27 – Asaduddin Owaisi is set to campaign for All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief Badruddin Ajmal in Assam ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections, in a move aimed at consolidating minority votes in key constituencies.A senior party leader said on Friday that Owaisi...

Election campaigning and preparations have gained momentum in Puducherry, with the final list of candidates confirmed yesterday. According to the Election Department, after the withdrawal of 71 nominations and the removal of multiple applications yesterday, a total of 294 candidates are...

Chennai, March 26 PMK founder Dr S Ramadoss on Thursday appealed to the ECI to reconsider its decision to recognize his son, Anbumani, as the party president.Ramadoss termed the Election Commission of India's decision to allow Anbumani to use the PMK's "mango" poll symbol as inappropriate...

Jaipur, March 26 Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma chaired a meeting of all political parties on Thursday to review the supply of LPG, petroleum products, and fertilizers in the state.Sharma assured that there is adequate availability of petrol, diesel, LPG, and fertilizers in the...

Gangtok, March 26 – The Citizen Action Party (CAP) announced on Thursday that it will boycott the upcoming Urban Local Bodies (ULB) elections in Sikkim if they are conducted on a party basis, reiterating its long-standing demand for non-party grassroots democratic processes.CAP spokesperson...

Chennai, March 26 A civil court in Chennai on Thursday declined to freeze the PMK's mango symbol, as sought by its founder S Ramadoss, stating that the matter falls within the exclusive domain of the EC.Ramadoss, the complainant in the case, was advised by Assistant Judge of the XIII Assistant...

Kasaragod (Kerala), March 26 The SDPI withdrew its candidates from key constituencies, including Manjeshwar in Kasaragod, on Thursday, drawing sharp reactions from BJP leader K Surendran, who is contesting from the seat.Besides Manjeshwar, the SDPI also withdrew its candidate from Mankada in...

Guwahati, March 26 – Amid growing discontent within the BJP over the denial of tickets to several sitting legislators ahead of the Assam Assembly elections, veteran leader Bijoya Chakravarty asserted on Thursday that the party must remain above individual aspirations, urging leaders and workers...

Jamnagar, March 26 The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will begin the fight to eradicate corruption from the very grassroots level if voted to power in the Gujarat local body elections, its national convener and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said here on Thursday.The ruling BJP and the...

Jaipur, March 26 Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma held a meeting with all political parties on the supply of LPG in Rajasthan, reiterating that the state had sufficient cooking gas reserves."Authorities are continuously monitoring the situation, and the CM has instructed district collectors to...

Chennai, March 26 BJP leader K Annamalai should contest the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly election and enter the House as a party legislator, BJP Mahila Morcha president Vanathi Srinivasan said on Thursday.The former state president of the BJP, who unsuccessfully contested from the Aravakurichi...

Jaipur, March 26 – Addressing a meeting of all political parties to discuss LPG supply in Rajasthan, Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma reviewed the current situation in the state.He assured that Rajasthan currently has sufficient stocks of essential commodities and LPG, and that the situation...

Guwahati, March 26 Assam BJP president Dilip Saikia on Thursday alleged that the Congress slogan of a ‘New Greater Assam’ is a “dangerous conspiracy” aimed at protecting the rights of ‘Miyas’ at the cost of indigenous people.He asserted that the saffron party was taking both visible and subtle...

New Delhi, March 26 The CPI(M) accused the Congress of becoming a "feeder organization" for the BJP on Thursday and criticized its leaders, Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, for "targeting" the Left instead of the saffron party in the election-bound state of Kerala.It stated that this...

Chennai, March 26 DMK leaders Kanimozhi Somu and Thamizhachi Thangapandian on Thursday claimed that the "Dravidian Model" of governance has already secured a "repeat mandate" through its transformative welfare schemes.The Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu will be held on April 23.The DMK...

Dubrajpur (WB), March 26 Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday claimed that her party will be credited if around 30 lakh of the over 60 lakh names under review appear on the voter list.Addressing an election rally here in Birbhum district, Banerjee, also the Chief Minister of...

New Delhi, March 26 – After the scrutiny of nominations for the April 9 Assembly elections concluded earlier this week, 985 candidates in Kerala and 789 nominees in Assam are left in the running, an official of the Election Commission of India (ECI) said on Thursday.In Puducherry, 366...

Chennai, March 26 – The Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) announced its candidates for three constituencies in Puducherry on Thursday, following a dispute with the Congress over seat allocation within the alliance led by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).This move followed the Congress’...