Karachi: An elections observer group in Pakistan has confirmed reports of rigging at some polling stations in Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi. The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) has provided statistics supporting reports of rigging at several Karachi polling stations where voter turnout was abnormally high. Since the elections were held on Saturday, the media and many political parties, including Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf and Jamaat-e-Islaami, have alleged rigging...
12:49 AM, May 14, 2013
Mateela: For decades, not a single woman in this dusty Pakistani village surrounded by wheat fields and orange trees has voted. And they aren't likely to in next week's parliamentary election either. The village's men have spoken. "It's the will of my husband," said one woman, Fatma Shamshed. "This is the decision of all the families." Mateela is one of 564 out of the 64,000 polling districts across Pakistan where...
03:38 PM, May 06, 2013
Bangalore: A fortnight-long hectic campaign for the May 5, 2013 Karnataka legislative assembly elections ended on Friday, with mainstream and regional political parties switching over to door-to-door canvassing to woo the voters over the next 24 hours. "Elaborate arrangements have been made to conduct free and fair elections Sunday in 223 assembly constituencies across the state through 6,200 pollings booths, involving about 100,000 officials and over 135,000 security personnel drawn...
04:24 AM, May 04, 2013
Mangalore: Senior BJP leader and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Thursday cautioned Karnataka's electorate against voting for the Congress in the state legislative assembly poll May 5, 2013, as it had failed on all fronts at the national level. "You have seen how the Congress-led UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government in Delhi has been faring during the last nine years, how it failed to control price rise, inflation and in...
05:33 AM, May 03, 2013
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday asserted that he will not compromise with his basic principles, such as secularism, to stay in power and will instead prefer to quit. "I have never compromised with basic principles, whether I stay in power or not," he said, while addressing a meeting of minority cell workers of his Janata Dal-United (JD-U) in Rajgir in Nalanda district. Nitish Kumar said that the...
05:53 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Bangalore: With less than a week to go for the Assembly elections campaigning is in full swing in Karnataka. The generals have now landed on the battlefield. After Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, now Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will start his tour of the state. He will first address a public meeting in Hubli which was a BJP stronghold till recently. But the question is whether Dr Singh will be...
09:18 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Jammu: Expressing anguish over frequent bedlam in the Assembly leading to loss of valuable time, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister on Wednesday said some politicians, in spite of raising the issues for which they are sent, resort to boycott politics for gaining publicity. Without taking name of any particular party, Omar, while addressing a rally in Kathua, said voters send public representatives to ventilate public problems and seek redressal of...
12:15 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan Election Commission on Saturday barred candidates from seeking votes in the name of religion or sect under new guidelines issued for the country's landmark May 11 General Election. The poll panel said the new guidelines were aimed at ensuring the "smooth and peaceful conduct" of the General Election. "Under the new guidelines candidates will not seek votes in the name of religion or sect," state-run Radio Pakistan reported....
12:50 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan's Election Commission on Wednesday decided to give people the choice of not voting for any of the candidates in the fray for the May 11 general election, with the inclusion of a "none of the above" option in ballot papers. Officials said re-polls would be held in constituencies where 51 per cent of voters choose the "none of the above" option. The decision to include the "none of...
11:34 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Uhuru Kenyatta had an early edge as Kenya continued the count on Tuesday in a presidential election that brought out millions of voters despite pockets of violence that killed at least 15 people. Kenyans, who waited patiently in long lines, hope the vote will restore the nation's image as one of Africa's more stable democracies after tribal blood-letting killed more than 1,200 people when the result of the 2007 vote...
12:05 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Battle lines have been drawn for Saturday's poll to the 60-member Meghalaya Assembly in which 345 candidates, including Chief Minister Mukul Sangma and Congress president DD Lapang, are in the fray. ...
05:33 AM, Feb 23, 2013
Meghalaya government has pressed 100 public transport vehicles into service in Khasi-Jaintia Hills to enable voters to reach their polling booths in view of the 36-hour bandh called by a militant outfit ahead of the state elections on Saturday. ...
12:21 AM, Feb 23, 2013
Vice President Hamid Ansari on Friday called for addressing limitations of the country's electoral system and favoured giving to voters the right to reject candidates to boost participation in the election process. ...
05:29 AM, Jan 26, 2013
The first phase of the 12th Gujarat assembly elections witnessed a record 70.75 per cent voting turnout in the 87 assembly constituencies spread across seven districts in Saurashtra and South Gujarat and four seats in Western Ahmedabad, the Election Commission said on Friday. ...
02:50 AM, Dec 15, 2012
Sorry, fellas, but President Barack Obama's re-election makes it official: Women can overrule men at the ballot box. For the first time in research dating to 1952, a presidential candidate whom men chose decisively - Republican Mitt Romney - lost. More women voted for the other guy. ...
11:04 AM, Nov 25, 2012
Ahmedabad: Around 1.81 crore voters are expected to exercise their franchise in the first phase of Assembly elections in Gujarat on December 13 to elect 87 legislators of the 182-member House, as per the final electoral rolls released by the state Election Commission. Assembly constituencies in Saurashtra, South Gujarat and four talukas in rural areas of Ahmedabad will go to polls on December 13. Male and female voters comprise 95.81...
01:20 AM, Nov 22, 2012
Washington: In a new video released by his campaign, US President Barack Obama wipes away tears as he thanks members of his campaign staff and volunteers. Obama's campaign released a five-minute video of the President's address on Wednesday to members of his staff at his Chicago headquarters. The short speech came a day after he won re-election. The US President talks about his work as a community organizer in Chicago...
08:01 AM, Nov 09, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat BJP has decided to take out 'Sampark Yatra' in the urban areas of the state as part of its campaign in the run-up to the assembly election. "We will take out a Sampark Yatra as part of election campaign from August 25 to September 15. The yatra will cover areas falling under eight municipal corporations and 159 municipalities of the state," Gujarat BJP chief RC Faldu said. "Different...
10:21 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Lucknow/Panaji: A highest ever voter turnout marked the staggered Assembly elections in five states, which ended on Saturday with Uttar Pradesh and Goa joining Punjab and Uttarakhand in breaking all previous records. Counting of votes in the elections in the five states which also included Manipur will be taken up on March 6 as political parties wait with bated breath to know the fall out of rise in voter turnout...
10:44 PM, Mar 03, 2012
