Three Rajya Sabha seats from MP to go to polls on Feb 7

Last Updated: Sunday, January 19, 2014, 14:30

The Election Commission has started preparations for the February 7 election to three Rajya Sabha seats from Madhya Pradesh that will fall vacant this year.

1.9 per cent voters use NOTA option in MP polls

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 16:39

Over six lakh voters, accounting for 1.9 per cent of the total votes polled, preferred None Of The Above (NOTA) option instead favouring any candidate in the just concluded Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections.

Digvijay Singh trashes exit poll predictions

Last Updated: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 15:27

Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh has rubbished the exit polls, being aired on some news channels, predicting an edge for BJP over Congress in recently-concluded Assembly elections in five states.

MP elections: EC orders re-poll in three booths

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 13:50

The Election Commission has directed for repolling at three polling booths in Madhya Pradesh.

Eight killed, 14 injured in Gujarat van-truck collision

Last Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 09:13

Eight persons, including three women, were killed and 14 others injured when their van collided head-on with a truck on Tarapur-Vataman Highway near here, police said Monday.

Re-polling at six places in MP on Monday

Last Updated: Sunday, December 1, 2013, 13:50

The Election Commission has directed to conduct re-polling tomorrow at six polling booths in Madhya Pradesh, where Assembly elections were held last Monday, official sources said on Sunday.

BJP to set a record if it scores hat-trick in MP polls

Last Updated: Sunday, November 24, 2013, 14:25

The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh would create a record if it wins the Assembly polls to be held on Monday as no government has lasted for more than 10 years in the state so far.

Rahul vows to break the wall that blocks poor from getting benefits

Last Updated: Friday, November 22, 2013, 22:58

Dubbing BJP as a party which does only "very good marketing", Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Congress is a party that keeps its promises and delivers.

Congress keeps mocking the poor, says Narendra Modi

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 21:05

Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that the Congress mocks the poor while for his party the poor were a manifestation of God.

MP polls: Rahul, Sonia to address election rallies

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 01:01

Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi will be addressing a total of five election meetings in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh.

Mayawati promises three acres of land to MP`s landless people

Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 21:26

Mayawati promised to give three acres of land to each landless person if her party is elected to power in Madhya Pradesh.

`A fourth of MP contestants have criminal backgrounds`

Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 16:10

Nearly one-fourth of the contestants in the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls have criminal backgrounds, an analysis by a think tank revealed here Monday.