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AP TET Results 2024: Scores awaited on aptet.apcfss.in, latest updates here

The AP TET Results 2024 were initially scheduled to be released on March 14, but was postponed owing to implementation of MCC in the state.

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Published on Jun 03, 2024 05:15 PM IST

ByHT Education Desk

Yogi Adityanath attacks SP leader's ‘vote jihad’ remark in UP's Farrukhabad

His remarks came days after SP leader Maria Alam called for "vote jihad" in favour of INDIA bloc candidate Naval Kishore Shakya.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath. (HT File)

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Updated on May 05, 2024 03:18 AM IST

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Shashi Tharoor's Lok Sabha polls prediction: ‘BJP to emerge as…'

Speaking at the Kerala Literature Festival, Tharoor said the BJP's "numbers can be brought down" to stop it from forming a government.

Shashi Tharoor is a member of the Congress Working Committee and one of the popular faces of the party in the country. (ANI file photo)

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Updated on Jan 14, 2024 07:01 PM IST

ByVaibhav Tiwari

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Voting begins in 59 seats in final phase of LS polls

This phase covers all remaining seats in the three states -- Uttar Pradesh (13, including the high-profile Varanasi constituency), Bihar (8) and West Bengal (9) - where polling took place across all seven phases, as well as Madhya Pradesh (8) and Jharkhand (3) which also saw multi-stage voting.

All the 13 constituencies in Punjab, one in Chandigarh, and four in Himachal Pradesh also figure in this phase.(HT Photo)

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Updated on May 19, 2019 01:06 PM IST

New Delhi | ByIndo Asian News Service

SC dismisses ex-BSF jawan Tej Bahadur’s plea against rejection of nomination

SC dismisses sacked BSF jawan Tej Bahadur’s plea challenging EC scrapping his Varanasi nomination for LS polls

Tej Bahadur, part of the BSF’s 29th Battalion, had posted a video on social media showing poor food arrangements at his camp on the border. (Facebook/Tej Bahadur Yadav)

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Updated on May 09, 2019 01:36 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Lok Sabha elections 2019: LS poll over, Sharad Pawar wants party to shift focus to state elections

The NCP chief believes drought can become an election issue in rural areas that account for around half of the state’s 288 assembly seats, said another NCP functionary.

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Updated on May 03, 2019 07:21 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Mumbai | ByHT Correspondent

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Only 2 independents in Haryana have won LS polls since 1967

Amit Nehra, a political expert, says the reason for the low success rate of independents is that it is very difficult for them to cover nine assembly segments in one go.

In the past 52 years, only A Gani from Gurgaon and Arvind Sharma from Sonepat have been able to win as independents even as 1,430 candidates tried their luck as independents.(Ht Photo)

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Published on Apr 28, 2019 09:19 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Ambala | BySunil Rahar

66 per cent cast vote in third phase of LS polls; one killed in Bengal

Election Commission officials in Delhi put the voting percentage at 66 per cent till 8 pm. Final figures are likely to change as queues of voters were seen at several centres even after the scheduled time for voting ended.

Voters stand in line at a polling station during the third phase of India's general election in Guwahati on Tuesday.(ANI photo)

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Updated on Apr 23, 2019 09:49 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India

India votes in biggest round of LS polls; Rahul Gandhi, Amit Shah in fray

Glitches in Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) were reported from a few places in Uttar Pradesh, Kerala and Bihar.

Voters outside a polling station in Malda, West Bengal.(AFP)

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Updated on May 03, 2020 02:38 PM IST

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

‘Can’t win any seat in Gujarat if…’: Congress leader’s forecast for LS polls

Bharatsinh Solanki, the Congress’ Anand Lok Sabha candidate, is confident of wresting the seat from the BJP and claims it is his party’s safest bet in Gujarat. He said if the Congress cannot win Anand Lok Sabha seat, in central Gujarat, then it can’t win any of the 26 seats in the state.

Congress candidate for Anand Lok Sabha seat Bharatsinh Solanki has said if the party can’t win from his constituency it would fail to register a single victory in Gujarat in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.(Siddharaj Solanki/ HT photo)

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Updated on Apr 16, 2019 05:40 PM IST

Anand/Borsad, Gujarat | ByPress Trust of India

‘Disqualify Amit Shah’: Congress moves poll panel over ‘false affidavit’

The Congress has moved the Election Commission seeking disqualification of BJP president Amit Shah from contesting the Lok Sabha polls alleging that he concealed facts while filing nomination papers from the Gandhinagar seat.

BJP National president Amit Shah filed his nomination from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency on March 31.(ANI)

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Updated on Apr 06, 2019 10:53 AM IST

New Delhi | ByIndo Asian News Service

BJP releases lists of 37 candidates for Lok Sabha polls, Sambit Patra to contest from Puri

BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra will contest the general election from Puri parliamentary constituency in Odisha.

The BJP’s 2nd list was nnounced late on Friday night.(PTI FILE)

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Updated on Mar 23, 2019 08:32 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP fields Kanna Lakshminarayana, Daggubati Purandhareswari in LS polls in Andhra Pradesh

The BJP’s Central Election Commission had released the full list of candidates for the 175 Assembly segments in Andhra Pradesh on March 17.

A BJP supporter waves a party flag.(PTI File Photo/Representative image)

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Updated on Mar 21, 2019 11:23 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Vijayawada | ByGali Nagaraja

Problem for Congress in Haryana, senior leaders reluctant to fight LS polls

The faction-ridden party has been witnessing infighting in Haryana for a long time now and all efforts by the central leadership to get the state unit to set its house in order have failed.

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad (second from the right) and Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee President Ashok Tanwar (R) during the Haryana Coordination Committee meeting at AICC headquarters in New Delhi on March 19, 2019.(Sanjeev Verma/HT Photo)

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Updated on Mar 21, 2019 12:58 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByAurangzeb Naqshbandi

YSRCP first list for LS polls out

The party will field V Chandramouli, a retired backward class bureaucrat against chief minister

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Published on Mar 18, 2019 12:05 AM IST

Vijaywada | ByHT Correspondent

JD-S leader Danish Ali joins Mayawati’s BSP ahead of LS polls; ‘with consent’, says Kumaraswamy

Senior JD-S leader Danish Ali joined the Bahujan Samaj Party ahead of parliamentary polls. Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy tweeted that the arrangement was a thoughtful decision taken by the two parties.

JD-S leader Danish Ali joined the BSP on Saturday in Lucknow ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.(ANI)

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Updated on Mar 16, 2019 05:14 PM IST

Agencies | ByAgencies

Lok Sabha election 2019: TN Assembly bypolls to be held with LS polls on April 18

The Election Commission on Sunday announced the schedule for bypolls in 18 of the 21 Assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu.

The bypolls in Tamil Nadu became necessary after 18 MLAs were disqualified in Seprember 2017 under the Anti Defection Law for supporting rebel AIADMK leader TTV Dinakaran, just two days before a high court deadline for a floor test for chief minister Edapaddi Palaniswami. (in pic)(PTI)

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Updated on Mar 10, 2019 11:26 PM IST

Hindustan Tmes, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Ahead of LS polls, PM Modi to review work done by MPs

A senior BJP leader familiar with developments said party MPs had undertaken several development projects over five years and published various booklets and pamphlets to publicize their work.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) details of projects undertaken by its MPs in the last five years.(Sanchit Khanna/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Feb 16, 2019 11:19 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByKumar Uttam

Row over conversion cases ahead of LS pollsGovt to withdraw ‘false cases’ against Christians

Opposition BJP has blamed the state government for, what it said. trying to promote conversion in Madhya Pradesh by initiating the process to withdraw the cases lodged against missionaries on the charges of their involvement in promoting forced conversion

(Photo by Praful Gangurde/ HT Photo)(HT File photo)

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Published on Jan 21, 2019 10:15 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByRanjan

At top meet, BJP seeks to turn defeat chapter, send message for LS polls

The conclave, possibly the last such event of the party before the elections, is being organised after the BJP lost the assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh to Congress.

Thousands of members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s national council will meet on Friday in New Delhi for three days ahead of the crucial Lok Sabha election to be held later this year.(PTI)

india news

Updated on Jan 11, 2019 10:27 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Amid speculations of tie-up, Kejriwal warns people against voting for Congress in LS polls

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Sunday warned people against voting for the Congress even as speculations are rife that AAP is in touch with the grand old party for a tie-up for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

New Delhi, India- Sept 08, 2018: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal gestures during his address after launching a mega tree plantation drive at Usmanpur village near Shastri park in north-east Delhi, India on Saturday, September 08, 2018.(Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)

india news

Updated on Jan 07, 2019 08:04 AM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India

Maratha quota protesters launch political party; to contest 5 seats in LS polls

The new party, Maharashtra Kranti Sena, headed by Suresh Patil, convenor of Sakal Maratha Samaj and president, Maratha Kranti Sanghatana, was launched from Rayreshwar temple in Kolhapur to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra.

Convenors of Maharashtra Kranti Sena taking pledge in the city on Thursday(HT/PHOTO)

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Updated on Nov 10, 2018 03:29 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Pune | ByYogesh Joshi

2019 LS polls: Congress, NCP agree over 40 seats, dispute remain over 8

The Congress and Nationalist Congress Party have reached a consensus over 40 Lok Sabha constituencies, but failed to resolve a dispute over eight seats.

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Published on Nov 03, 2018 03:21 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mumbai | ByFaisan Malik

Forced to add surname in 2014 LS polls: Ashutosh

Ashutosh, a former journalist who had resigned from AAP on August 15, said that he was forced to add his last name Gupta ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, a claim rejected by the party.

Ashutosh said he has now left AAP and is not constrained by party discipline.(Sushil Kumar/ Hindustan Times)

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Published on Aug 30, 2018 03:16 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

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The AP TET Results 2024 were initially scheduled to be released on March 14, but was postponed owing to implementation of MCC in the state.

His remarks came days after SP leader Maria Alam called for "vote jihad" in favour of INDIA bloc candidate Naval Kishore Shakya.

Speaking at the Kerala Literature Festival, Tharoor said the BJP's "numbers can be brought down" to stop it from forming a government.

This phase covers all remaining seats in the three states -- Uttar Pradesh (13, including the high-profile Varanasi constituency), Bihar (8) and West Bengal (9) - where polling took place across all seven phases, as well as Madhya Pradesh (8) and Jharkhand (3) which also saw multi-stage voting.

SC dismisses sacked BSF jawan Tej Bahadur’s plea challenging EC scrapping his Varanasi nomination for LS polls

The NCP chief believes drought can become an election issue in rural areas that account for around half of the state’s 288 assembly seats, said another NCP functionary.

Amit Nehra, a political expert, says the reason for the low success rate of independents is that it is very difficult for them to cover nine assembly segments in one go.

Election Commission officials in Delhi put the voting percentage at 66 per cent till 8 pm. Final figures are likely to change as queues of voters were seen at several centres even after the scheduled time for voting ended.

Glitches in Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) were reported from a few places in Uttar Pradesh, Kerala and Bihar.

Bharatsinh Solanki, the Congress’ Anand Lok Sabha candidate, is confident of wresting the seat from the BJP and claims it is his party’s safest bet in Gujarat. He said if the Congress cannot win Anand Lok Sabha seat, in central Gujarat, then it can’t win any of the 26 seats in the state.

The Congress has moved the Election Commission seeking disqualification of BJP president Amit Shah from contesting the Lok Sabha polls alleging that he concealed facts while filing nomination papers from the Gandhinagar seat.

BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra will contest the general election from Puri parliamentary constituency in Odisha.

The BJP’s Central Election Commission had released the full list of candidates for the 175 Assembly segments in Andhra Pradesh on March 17.

The faction-ridden party has been witnessing infighting in Haryana for a long time now and all efforts by the central leadership to get the state unit to set its house in order have failed.

The party will field V Chandramouli, a retired backward class bureaucrat against chief minister

Senior JD-S leader Danish Ali joined the Bahujan Samaj Party ahead of parliamentary polls. Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy tweeted that the arrangement was a thoughtful decision taken by the two parties.

The Election Commission on Sunday announced the schedule for bypolls in 18 of the 21 Assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu.

A senior BJP leader familiar with developments said party MPs had undertaken several development projects over five years and published various booklets and pamphlets to publicize their work.

Opposition BJP has blamed the state government for, what it said. trying to promote conversion in Madhya Pradesh by initiating the process to withdraw the cases lodged against missionaries on the charges of their involvement in promoting forced conversion

The conclave, possibly the last such event of the party before the elections, is being organised after the BJP lost the assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh to Congress.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Sunday warned people against voting for the Congress even as speculations are rife that AAP is in touch with the grand old party for a tie-up for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

The new party, Maharashtra Kranti Sena, headed by Suresh Patil, convenor of Sakal Maratha Samaj and president, Maratha Kranti Sanghatana, was launched from Rayreshwar temple in Kolhapur to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra.

The Congress and Nationalist Congress Party have reached a consensus over 40 Lok Sabha constituencies, but failed to resolve a dispute over eight seats.

Ashutosh, a former journalist who had resigned from AAP on August 15, said that he was forced to add his last name Gupta ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, a claim rejected by the party.

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