New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath Thursday hoped that voting percentage will keep improving with every round of the Lok Sabha election. “We hope for better voter participation in every phase,” he told journalists here. He said Thursday’s voting in 14 states was “critical … because some of the sensitive areas in […]
Hyderabad, April 10 (IANS) Senior Congress leader and union Minister Jairam Ramesh will start campaigning for the party in Telangana Thursday. On the first day of his three-day visit, he will address a meeting of party workers at Nirmal town in Adilabad district. He will address similar meetings in Khammam and Nalgonda districts Friday and will […]
New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi voted here Thursday in the Lok Sabha election. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal also voted in separate polling centres. Sonia Gandhi was accompanied by Congress leaders Ajay Maken, Arvinder Singh Lovely and Haroon Yusuf when she reached the Nirman Bhawan […]
Gurgaon, April 10 (IANS) Voters gave the thumbs up for polling stations here in Haryana, and for the clock-work precision with which they operated Thursday. Queues began forming in polling centres since almost the time they opened at 7 a.m. In Gurgaon, long queues of voters were seen in what is called New Gurgaon, dominated by […]
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 […]