Assembly Polls
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Omicron: Decision on holding Assembly polls after UP visit next week, says Election Commission chief
The Allahabad High Court has requested the Election Commission to postpone the polls because of the spread of the new variant.
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‘Who tapped the phones and why,’ asks Amit Shah after TMC releases alleged recording of BJP leaders
Shah claimed that there was nothing secretive about the conversation between Mukul Roy and Shishir Bajoria.
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PC Chacko quits Congress ahead of Kerala polls, says ‘no democracy left’ in party
The senior leader also alleged there was groupism within the party.
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Trending
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Why many young Muslims are leaving India
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Romila Thapar: ‘The rights of citizenship have faded’
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Bilkis Bano gangrape: 11 men sentenced to life imprisonment released from jail
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‘What’s behind the flag?’: India’s cartoonists prompt a laugh on the country’s 75th Independence Day
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Indian football: Fifa suspends AIFF throwing U-17 Women’s World Cup in doubt
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Election Commission expected to announce dates for Assembly polls in 4 states, Puducherry today
Elections will be held for 294 seats in West Bengal, 234 in Tamil Nadu, 140 in Kerala, 126 in Assam and 30 in Puducherry.
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Telangana: KCR elected leader of legislature party, likely to take oath as CM on Thursday
Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi won 88 seats out of 119 in the Assembly elections.
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Telangana Assembly polls: Voters complain of names missing from electoral rolls
Over 300 people staged a protest in Kamareddy district alleging that their names were missing from the lists.
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Video
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‘Vijayi Vishwa Tiranga Pyara’: 1938 song composed for the freedom movement gets new rendition
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‘We don’t hate for long’: Jawaharlal Nehru on the UK during impromptu press conference in 1953
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Watch: Migratory bird makes emergency landing because of heat, police saves it in China
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Watch: Arvind Kejriwal’s speech accidentally played at BJP’s ‘tiranga yatra’ in Gujarat
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Watch: When former Pakistan PM Imran Khan praised India for not bowing to the West
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Telangana polls: BJP chief Amit Shah, Congress president Rahul Gandhi take on CM Chandrasekhar Rao
Shah accused Rao of ‘minority appeasement’ while Gandhi claimed the Telangana Rashtra Samithi was the Sangh Parivar’s ‘B team’.
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Telangana Assembly polls: Congress and TDP reach agreement on seat-sharing equation with allies
The Congress-led alliance in Telangana includes the Telugu Desam Party, Communist Party of India and the Telangana Jana Samithi.
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‘The last bastion’: Mizoram polls will be turning point in Indian politics, says Congress leader
The party said it would put an end to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s agenda of communal hatred and cultural divide.
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The Reel
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Deepa Mehta’s ‘Earth’ is a reminder of lines arbitrarily drawn between countries and hearts
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Watch: ‘Pippa’ teaser is out, release date set for December 2
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Does Netflix series ‘The Sandman’ make your every comic-loving dream come true?
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‘The Legend of Maula Jatt’ trailer: Fawad Khan leads reboot of a Pakistani classic
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Start the week with a film: Get a much-needed dose of ‘Gandhigiri’ with ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’
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North-East politics: The three Assembly elections underline the marginalisation of women
Tripura and Meghalaya elected only three women each, while Nagaland failed to send its first woman to the state legislature.
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Meghalaya polls: We will never try to influence the eating habits of individuals, says Conrad Sangma
The son of the late PA Sangma and leader of the NPP speaks on a possible post-poll tie-up with the BJP in the predominantly Christian Meghalaya.
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In Himachal Pradesh, the BJP’s advantage is offset in the absence of a chief ministerial face
The party is otherwise well-placed to dethrone the ruling Congress-led Virbhadra Singh government.
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The Field
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Ultimate Kho Kho: Mumbai Khiladis earn first victory of season; winning start for Odisha Juggernauts
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Premier League: Luis Diaz rescues a point for Liverpool after Darwin Nunez sent off on home debut
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Indian football: Fifa suspends AIFF throwing U-17 Women’s World Cup in doubt
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Davis Cup: Nadal rested for Spain’s group stage matches, Zverev included in German squad
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Football: Manchester City’s Benjamin Mendy termed ‘predator’ as rape trial begins