Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP saw its seat count dip to 240—a loss of 63 seats from the 303 it won five years ago.
6 min read4 Jun 2024Lok Sabha Election Phase 7 Voting Highlights: Apart from PM Modi, the other candidates in the fray today include BJP leaders Kangana Ranaut, Ravi Kishan and Anurag Thakur, Congress leader Vikramaditya Singh, RJD leader Misa Bharti, and TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee, to name a few
30 min read1 Jun 2024Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The approximate 61.75 per cent voter turnout for Phase 6 polling is slightly lesser than the turnout for these 58 seats in 2019, which was 64.73 per cent, barring the delimited seat of Anantnag-Rajouri seat of Jammu and Kashmir.
2 min read26 May 2024The updated turnout is slightly less than 61.82 per cent polling registered by the 49 seats of phase 5 in 2019 Lok Sabha elections. With the updated final turnout likely to rise, the gap will be narrowed further.
2 min read21 May 2024In the 2019 general elections, the turnout in 96 seats that voted in phase 4 on May 13, was 68.8 per cent. This is a 1.55 per cent dip compared to that.
2 min read14 May 2024The Bharatiya Janata Party currently holds 14 out of a set of 30 constituencies across Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru. Its vote share in these seats was nearly 39% in 2019.
3 min read12 May 2024The new estimated voter turnout for Phase 3, as of 10 pm on May 8, is 65.68 per cent, the Election Commission said. This is a dip of just 1.65 percentage points in voter turnout compared to the third phase of voting in the 2019 elections. This number will be updated further, the poll panel said.
2 min read9 May 2024Open source software isn’t more vulnerable to hackers but less, thanks to the highly skilled vigil kept by a broad community of developers, security experts and researchers. We should use it to safeguard our elections.
4 min read7 May 2024Both BJP and Congress accuse each other of trying to bend India’s rulebook. Is this a moment of triumph for ‘We the People’? After all, its basics don’t just unite us as citizens of a free country, they assure us national stability.
2 min read6 May 2024The people of Bihar are undoubtedly politically sensitive, but they remain obstinate about voting on the basis of castes.
4 min read29 Apr 2024The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared
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