New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi on Friday said there is no scientific basis for exit and opinion polls and sought a ban on both saying these could be sponsored. Speaking at a panel discussion on "Is India's media becoming increasing unethical", he said the poll body wanted a ban on not only exit polls but also opinion polls. "We wanted a ban on opinion and exit polls. If...
01:07 AM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Amid a flurry of exit polls predicting the outcome of Assembly elections ahead of the March 6 results, Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi on Sunday said such surveys should at best be on entertainment channels. "Opinion and exit polls should at best be on entertainment channels!," Quraishi tweeted this afternoon, taking a dig at the surveys. The reaction of the CEC, who made his Twitter debut on February...
06:43 PM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: UPA General Secretary Rahul Gandhi may have attracted the crowds in Uttar Pradesh but not the votes with the Congress vote-share set to dip. Congress General secretary Digvijaya Singh put up a brave front and said that he and not Rahul will be responsible if the party does badly in Uttar Pradesh. "I have always held that leadership can create a wave, can create the enthusiasm but it...
07:29 AM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Tuesday banned exit polls till March 3, till the completion of assembly elections in five states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa. In a notification issued on Tuesday, it also banned release of opinion polls in any manner on electronic media under Section 126 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 during period of 48 hours, counted backwards from close of...
06:15 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Moscow: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ruling party suffered a big decline in Russia's parliamentary election on Sunday, winning less than half of votes cast, according to the two biggest exit polls published after voting closed. According to the poll from state pollster VTsIOM, Putin's United Russia party won 48.5 per cent of the vote followed by the Communists with 19.8 per cent, LDPR with 11.4 per cent and Just Russia...
12:25 AM, Dec 05, 2011
On The Last Word, Karan Thapar discusses how post poll surveys and exit polls performed this time. ...
12:21 AM, May 21, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: An air of anxiety pervaded ruling LDF and opposition UDF camps in Kerala with the political profile of the state for the next five years to be decided when counting of votes is taken up on Friday. Never before have voters and candidates in Kerala had to wait for such a long time to know the outcome after exercising their franchise. Elections for the 140 member Assembly were held...
08:47 PM, May 12, 2011
German state results published on Twitter before polls closed on Sunday. ...
11:25 PM, Sep 01, 2009
The Congress-led UPA has been projected to have an edge over NDA. ...
06:19 PM, May 15, 2009
Congress is likely to get anywhere between 185 and 205 seats. ...
06:09 PM, May 15, 2009
Survey shows 71 pc people happy with Manmohan's performance. ...
02:33 AM, May 15, 2009
Amar Singh said such projections cannot predict the fate of parties. ...
02:27 PM, May 14, 2009
He also expressed that parties will have to find way to work together. ...
03:45 AM, May 14, 2009
Results of surveys have placed the BJP-led NDA not far behind the UPA. ...
03:23 AM, May 14, 2009
CNN-IBN debates and dissects the finding of a post-poll survey. ...
02:03 AM, May 14, 2009
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