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They also offered free smart phones, 20 lakh youth skill training, loan waiver for farmers, cheap power to farmers, 33 per cent reservation for women in government jobs.

Several Muslims have moved out of Dadri’s Bisada village since Akhlaq's killing. But even now, as Bisada prepares to go to polls on Saturday, the village is buzzing as much with political banter as with threats and counter threats.

Altogether 549 elected panchayat members, mostly from Congress, joined BJP on Thursday at Seppa in East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh in presence of Chief Minister Pema Khandu.

A total of 107 candidates who are in the fray for the second phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections to be held on February 15 have declared criminal cases against themselves, while there are 256 crorepatis, as per a latest report.

SP-Congress alliance too has pitched itself strongly as the secular front against the BJP.

All security measures are put in place to guard EVMs in nine assembly constituencies, the Election Commission said on Wednesday, as it dismissed the AAP's allegations that standard procedure was neglected while guarding the strong rooms where the polling...

'Brahamin Shankh Bajayega, Hathi aage Jayega' meaning 'Brahmin will play the conch in Victory March of the Bahujan Samaj party'.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said the government may take a major step to ban triple talaq after the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

Smriti Irani is in Uttar Pradesh campaigning for BJP as India's most populous state enters the last week before polls. In this interview with CNN-News18's Marya Shakil, the Union minister for textiles talks about her plans for the Nehru-Gandhi pocket boro...

Former Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Saturday said three surgical strikes were carried out between 2009-2013 but the UPA government never made it public.

Hitting out at PM Narendra Modi's acronym -- SCAM -- that he attributed to all his political rivals in Uttar Pradesh, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav trained his gun on PM saying, "We have to save the country from SCAM. We have to save the country from peop...

JD(U) leader and senior politician Sharad Yadav on Friday slammed the Law Commission for initiating consultation on the Uniform Civil Code, saying it was "beyond its mandate" as the Constitution provided for such a step only when there is a consensus on t...

News18 spoke to Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan on the implications of the proposals for electoral democracy and campaign finance. JP, as he is known, is a former IAS officer from Andhra Pradesh and the founder of the Lok Satta movement, which later became a poli...

After initially dropping Varun Gandhi from the list of "star campaigners" in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP on Thursday included his name for the third and fourth phases of polling in the state, a party official said.

AAP can credit the massive turnout at its rallies in the Malwa region, where it is hoping to create a Delhi-like wave, to supporters between the ages of 18 and 35. The “youth vote” in Punjab is 53 percent and could give the AAP a decisive edge in the poll...

Even as the Raj Thackeray-led MNS knocked at the doors of Shiv Sena for a tie-up in the upcoming civic polls, Uddhav Thackeray today said he has not received any alliance proposal from anyone and reiterated that his party would fight the elections all alo...