Patna: In Patna’s Magadh Mahila College, students are walking out of the examination hall after finishing their third paper for the second semester. After a brief discussion on answers, third-year student Shalini Chaudhary and her friend bid each other farewell. While Shalini leaves for the hostel meant for those from the Scheduled Caste community, her …
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Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: Once Part of Illegal Liquor-making Business, These Women in Bihar Want Nitish Kumar’s Party to Win
Munaki Devi, 55, has a rock protruding out of a hill for a ceiling. Her windows are holes in the old, worn out bedsheet that she hangs on the sides of where she sleeps and spends her days. Munaki, who barely made a living by producing illegal country liquor, has turned into one of the …
Are Silent, Restless Tribals This Lok Sabha Election’s X-Factor?
We’re in Jhabua’s Alirajpur district sitting in the house of Shankar Tadwal, a tribal rights activist, who has been directly or indirectly involved with nearly every tribal centric outfit that has been founded in Madhya Pradesh. The entrance of his house is lined with portraits of adivasi icons. Among them is a portrait of BR …
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Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: Kumaraswamy Will be Karnataka CM Till Friday Morning, Says Union Minister Sadananda Gowda
Bengaluru: Union minister D V Sadananda Gowda claimed on Wednesday that the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka would collapse after the Lok Sabha poll results and HD Kumaraswamy would be the chief minister only till May 24 morning. Gowda, a former Karnataka chief minister, also said the stage would be ready for the formation of …
Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: ‘Election Commission Working With BJP to Tamper EVM Machines’: AAP
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday accused the Election Commission of working with the BJP to “tamper” EVMs to get the results of the Lok Sabha polls in its favour. Leaders of 22 opposition parties had met the Election Commission on Tuesday and demanded verification of VVPAT slips of randomly-selected polling stations before …
Jharkhand Lok Sabha election results 2019 live updates: Kirti Azad trailing by 117047 votes
Counting for 14 Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand is underway and early trends, depicting the likely winners and trailing candidates, have started coming in. The pace of declaration of results may be slower this time since the Election Commission will also tally the voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) slips with five EVMs per assembly segments. Lok …
Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: Bihar’s Most Influential Muslim Body Hopeful for Nitish Kumar But Hesitant towards NDA
The most influential Muslim religious body in Bihar, Imarat Shariah, expressed its dissatisfaction over political parties not providing enough representation to Muslims in proportion to their population while distributing tickets for the Lok Sabha polls. It will interesting to see how that translates into votes as India awaits results for Lok Sabha elections 2019.The Patna-based …
Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: Congress Can Reclaim West Delhi Where Purvanchalis Seem to Hold Key. But Advantage Still Remains With BJP
New Delhi: As the Lok Sabha elections came to a conclusion on last week, majority of the exit polls predicted a comfortable majority for the Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance(NDA). The News18-IPSOS Exit Polls forecast as many as 336 seats for the NDA, while it predicted the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance …
Tamil Nadu, Puducherry Lok Sabha election results 2019 live updates: DMK+ leads in 30 seats in Tamil Nadu, Congress winning Puducherry
Chennai: Counting for 38 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and one seat in Puducherry begun at 8 am on Thursday. Election trends started pouring in soon, revealing the early winners and trailing candidates. Eight hundred and twenty two candidates were in the fray from Tamil Nadu while 18 candidates contested from Puducherry. The main …
Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: How a Policy Tweak Has Left Thousands of Truck Drivers Unemployed in Haryana’s Nuh
“Sir, with due respect, I beg to say that my father is a poor man and he is unable to pay my fees. Kindly grant me full fee concession.” Mohammad Israil, 47, recites lines that he wrote to his principal in class 8, in order to prove that he does not need a class 10 …
