New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Delhi will break all voting records, Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Dev said Thursday as polling for the seven Lok Sabha seats is on in the national capital. “This time all records will be broken in Delhi… I am sure a lot of people, including youth and women, will come out and […]
New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) It was a pleasant Thursday morning here with a minimum temperature at 17.9 degrees Celsius – two notches below the season’s average. The Met Office has forecast a cloudy day. “The sky will become partly cloudy towards the noon,” said an India Meteorological Department official. The maximum temperature is likely to […]
New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Brisk voting took place Thursday across Delhi’s seven Lok Sabha constituencies, all of which were won by the Congress in 2009. Queues were witnessed from the time polling stations opened at 7 a.m., and officials reported a steady turnover of voters. There was visible enthusiasm especially among middle-aged voters and senior […]
Bhubaneswar, April 10 (IANS) Polling began on a peaceful note for 10 Lok Sabha and 70 assembly seats in Odisha, an official said. People stood in queues outside polling centres before polling started at 7 am. “Everywhere balloting has started. We talked to all the district collectors and police officials and from nowhere have we got […]
Kolkata, April 10 (IANS) Polling began Thursday for the lone Lok Sabha constituency in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a picturesque archipelago of 572 islands situated in the Bay of Bengal, officials said. There are 257,856 voters in the union territory. Voting started in 386 polling booths at 7 a.m. There 15 candidates in the fray. […]
Thiruvananthapuram, April 10 (IANS) Balloting for the Lakshadweep Lok Sabha seat, with an electorate of less than 50,000, began Thursday. India’s smallest union territory Lakshadweep is a group of 36 islands. Just six candidates are in the fray. Forty-three polling booths have been set up for the voting that began 7 a.m., officials said. The Congress […]
Jagdalpur, April 10 (IANS) Polling began Thursday in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar Lok Sabha constituency, one of India’s worst insurgency-hit regions. Over 1.29 million voters will decide the fate of eight candidates in the constituency where roughly 80 percent of the total 1,797 polling booths have been declared “ultra sensitive”. The remaining 10 seats will see polling April […]
Aurangabad (Bihar), April 10 (IANS) Former Delhi Police chief Nikhil Kumar, who quit as Kerala governor last month, is in the poll fray in Bihar’s Aurangabad constituency where he is facing an uphill task. Kumar is contesting on a Congress ticket and he is facing a big challenge from his traditional rival Sushil Kumar Singh of […]
Washington, April 10 (IANS) About three-in-ten Asian-American eligible voters, including Indian Americans, have cast ballots in midterm elections since 1998, a much lower turnout rate than that of whites and blacks, according to a new report. With an estimated nine million eligible voters in 2014, the Asian-American electorate for the November Congressional elections makes up 4 […]
Bhopal, April 10 (IANS) Balloting began Thursday in nine Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh, officials said. As many as 118 candidates are in the fray in the nine constituencies – Chhindwara, Satna, Rewa, Balaghat, Sidhi, Shahdol, Mandla, Jabalpur, and Hoshangabad – where over 11 million voters will decide their fate. Polling for the rest of […]