Election

Congress Suffers crushing defeat in UP, Punjab and Goa

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's election meeting in Goa on Wednesday has got embroiled in a controversy with the Election Commission launching a probe into alleged distribution of "Anti Hindu Material" at the venue.

The BJP, which won 62 seats to emerge as the largest party in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation polls, has taken in two members of the Indian Union of Muslim League to retain power.

Members of Team Anna yesterday met Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi on Thursday and stresses on their demand for the ‘Right to Reject’ option on electronic voting machines. The team has also sought debarring candidates who have been charged against contesting elections

New Delhi : Following senior ministers’ recent run-ins with the Election Commission over violations of model code of conduct, the UPA government has set in motion a process that is bound to ignite controversy.

Nagpur: President Pratibha Patil's son and Congress MLA Raosaheb Shekhawat today said Rs 1 crore seized as unaccounted cash was meant for distribution among financially weak candidates for the local civic polls.

A controversy broke out on Monday over the transfer of a poll observer, an IAS officer, who allegedly ordered the stopping of a motorcycle rally of Congress campaigner Robert Vadra on the charge of violating the model code of conduct.

A group of IT experts from the United States, who had claimed that Indian Electronic Voting Machines were not tamper-proof and had asked the election body to explore other forms of voting that provide 'transparency' and security, were made to face the heat on their arrival in a wintery New Delhi on Monday.

The new Bihar assembly has 141 legislators with pending criminal cases against them.

Dr Subramanian Swamy today strongly condemned the arrest and remand sought by the Maharashtra police of Mr. Hari Prasad, a software engineer from Hyderabad, on the bogus charge of having stolen an electronic voting machine (EVM).

New York: India’s EVMs with chips made in Japan and the US were designed to stop fraud and accelerate the voting process, but computer scientists say these paperless machines are vulnerable to fraud.

Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh): A city-based technology company, NetIndia, which commissioned a collaborative study on the possibility of tampering with electronic voting machines, has claimed that the EVMs were ‘vulnerable to fraud'.

Chandigarh: The electronic voting machines (EVMs) are being used in violation of the Information Technology Act 2000, a research paper has revealed.

Out of the 470 candidates contesting elections from Thane and Mumbai, 126 have criminal background whereas 122 of them are millionaires – Report of ‘Agni’

The Congress party has decided to field Christians in Maharashtra following the request of a leading Christian council in the country.