Lucknow, February 26: The Election Commission Sunday denied any damage to the electronic voting machines (EVMs) due to seepage from an overhead water tank in a strong-room where the machines were kept after the voting here Feb 19. Poll panel observers Arvinder Singh and Aseem Khurana, who were specially detailed to unlock ...

Saharanpur, February 26: In a frontal attack on Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Congress president Sonia Gandhi Sunday pointedly blamed the state government for swindling Rs.9,000 crore earmarked for the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in India's most populous state. Addressing an election rally in this western Uttar Pradesh city, ...

Kanpur, February 23: Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal Thursday said Uttar Pradesh will have President's Rule if no party gets majority in the polls. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called his statement a "threat to the electorate". Speaking in Kanpur, where polling was held for the fifth phase of the assembly polls ...

Lucknow, February 23: A very brisk 39 percent polling in the first six hours -- the highest so far -- was reported Thursday from most of the 49 assembly constituencies that voted in the fifth round of the seven-phased Uttar Pradesh elections, including areas considered the state's badlands. There was no report ...

Kanpur, February 21: Blaming Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, the Congress Tuesday said it would approach the high court for quashing a police complaint against party leader Rahul Gandhi for allegedly violating rules during a roadshow here. Congress leader Digvijay Singh alleged: "The action was taken on the direction of Mayawati as ...

New Delhi, February 20: The Congress party Monday said it would reply to the Election Commission on Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma's sub-quota comment within the stipulated time, adding that there was no intent to disrespect the commission. Talking to reporters after meeting Verma, party leader and spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi ...

Lucknow, February 19: Voting across 56 constituencies, including Lucknow, in the fourth phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections Sunday picked up pace after a slow start to record a 57 percent turnout, officials said. Polling was peaceful barring stray incidents. The turnout was a marked improvement over the 2007 state elections ...

New Delhi, February 19: Protesting against the lack of development, voters at the Patna polling station in Tindwari assembly constituency of Uttar Pradesh's Banda district boycotted the assembly polls Sunday. Election Commission sources said this is the first such incident during the four phases of the seven-phase state Assembly polls, which started ...

Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh), February 19: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati Saturday said here that "gunda and mafia raj" would return to the state if the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party came to power in the assembly polls. Addressing a rally at the CL College ground, Mayawati said ...

Farrukhabad, February 19: Louis Khursheed, Congress leader and wife of union Law Minister Salman Khursheed, had a narrow escape Sunday evening as a group of people pelted stones at a polling booth here, from where she is contesting the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, for allegedly promoting bogus voting. The protesters charged her ...