Prez poll

A day after the presidential election, the ballot boxes boarded flights from different states including Nagaland on separate air tickets under the name “Mr Ballot box”. The boxes were accompanied by election officers, for their return journey to Delhi...

Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has maintained that if “100% MLAs from a Christian state to vote for Hindutva presidential candidate” was true, then “Nagaland for Christ has transformed into Nagaland for Hindutva under the leadership of N. Rio.”In...

With only five left to go to the presidential poll, polling materials, including ballot papers for the election, arrived in Imphal on Wednesday.Soon after arrival of the polling materials at Imphal Airport, they were transported to Manipur Legislative Assembly...

Three newly-elected MLAs of Tripura took oath on Tuesday, but Chief Minister Manik Saha who also won the June 23 by-election to become a legislator was not sworn in by the speaker.Congress’s Sudip Roy Barman, who won the Agartala...

NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday appeared set for smooth sailing in the presidential election after she received the crucial backing of BJD, but an unfazed Opposition nominee Yashwant Sinha asserted that he is fighting an ideological contest and...

Former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Monday became the third person to decline the Opposition parties’ request to be their Presidential candidate. Gandhi said while he was grateful for being considered for the highest office, he felt the...

Fifteen candidates have filed their nominations for the presidential election with the papers of three of them rejected for want of proper documents, sources said on Friday.While 11 filed their nominations on the first day of filing the papers...

The decision of some key regional parties like the Biju Janata Dal, Telangana Rashtra Samithi and Aam Aadmi Party to skip a key opposition meet called by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the presidential poll has cheered...

The government is making an effort for a consensus candidate for the upcoming presidential election, even as 17 opposition parties announced a decision to put up a joint candidate against the NDA nominee.Senior BJP leader and Union defence minister...