Maharashtra Voting 2017

Ram Nath Kovind's election as the next president of India was never in doubt but the large scale cross-voting in seven states throws up a big worry for the opposition, especially ahead of polls in Gujarat later this year.

Sharad Pawar for President is the Shiv Sena's latest suggestion and it wants ally BJP to back the Nationalist Congress Party chief too.

Shiv Sena 84, BJP 82. In the nail-biting finish that a T20 cricket match delivers, the BJP is now just two seats behind the Shiv Sena in Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC, dominated by the latter for 20 years. The BJP is also set to win eight out of the nine other major Maharashtra municipalities where elections were held this week...

Amid high-stake battle between the former allies the BJP and Shiv Sena, all eyes will be on the results of cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections today. The counting of votes for the polling to 10 municipal corporations, including the BMC, and 25 zilla parishads across Maharashtra will begin at 10 am, election officials have s...

Priyanka Chopra says "to vote is our greatest right" and she would have voted if she was in Mumbai

Mumbai votes today in civic polls and political parties have urged the megacity to do better than before - it has averaged 44 per cent in voter turnout for BMC elections since 1997. But among those who did turn up to vote, several complained that their names were not on voting lists. This isnt the first time. In 2014, the Election Commission that ...

A record 55 per cent voting, the highest in 25 years, was recorded yesterday as Mumbai voted to decide who will control the country's richest civic body -- the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC. The contest was seen as one mainly between the Shiv Sena and the BJP. The turn-out for 11 Zilla Parishads and 118 Panchayat Samiti polls in the sta...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadanavis today released the BJP manifesto for the Goa Assembly elections. He promised that it will make the state "unemployment free" in five years if voted to power again. The manifesto was released in presence of his Goa counterpart Laxmikant Parsekar, Union AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik and other party leaders....

Ram Nath Kovind's election as the next president of India was never in doubt but the large scale cross-voting in seven states throws up a big worry for the opposition, especially ahead of polls in Gujarat later this year.

Sharad Pawar for President is the Shiv Sena's latest suggestion and it wants ally BJP to back the Nationalist Congress Party chief too.

Shiv Sena 84, BJP 82. In the nail-biting finish that a T20 cricket match delivers, the BJP is now just two seats behind the Shiv Sena in Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC, dominated by the latter for 20 years. The BJP is also set to win eight out of the nine other major Maharashtra municipalities where elections were held this week...

Amid high-stake battle between the former allies the BJP and Shiv Sena, all eyes will be on the results of cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections today. The counting of votes for the polling to 10 municipal corporations, including the BMC, and 25 zilla parishads across Maharashtra will begin at 10 am, election officials have s...

Priyanka Chopra says "to vote is our greatest right" and she would have voted if she was in Mumbai

Mumbai votes today in civic polls and political parties have urged the megacity to do better than before - it has averaged 44 per cent in voter turnout for BMC elections since 1997. But among those who did turn up to vote, several complained that their names were not on voting lists. This isnt the first time. In 2014, the Election Commission that ...

A record 55 per cent voting, the highest in 25 years, was recorded yesterday as Mumbai voted to decide who will control the country's richest civic body -- the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC. The contest was seen as one mainly between the Shiv Sena and the BJP. The turn-out for 11 Zilla Parishads and 118 Panchayat Samiti polls in the sta...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadanavis today released the BJP manifesto for the Goa Assembly elections. He promised that it will make the state "unemployment free" in five years if voted to power again. The manifesto was released in presence of his Goa counterpart Laxmikant Parsekar, Union AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik and other party leaders....