Polling Booths Attacked

BJP MP Locket Chatterjee's car - and those belonging to the press - were allegedly attacked by a mob of angry locals at polling booth No 66 in Bengal's Hooghly district on Saturday morning, where voting for the fourth phase began at 7 am

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today claimed BJP activists were forcibly occupying polling booths and attacking Trinamool members, including party candidates, and asserted that she would not get bogged down by such "intimidating tactics".

The battle for Bengal, which will be fought in polling booths in a couple of months from now, is today being fought by the Trinamool and BJP in Kolkata over the legacy of iconic freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

A sub-inspector of the Border Security Force (BSF) on duty at a polling booth in the Lalganj assembly seat died of heart attack Tuesday, police and hospital sources said.

BJP candidate Bharati Ghosh, a former IPS officer and once a trusted lieutenant of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was in tears Sunday morning after she was attacked, heckled and pushed to the ground at a polling station as the state votes in the sixth round of the national election. Ms Ghosh is the BJP candidate in Bengal's Ghatal.

Violence in Bengal and allegations of malfunctioning electronic voting machines in Delhi marked the sixth round of election, which took place for 59 seats across seven states. The overall turnout was 63.3 per cent. In Delhi, where voting took place for all seven Lok Sabha seats, the voting percentage was 60, down from 65.1 in the 2014 polls. In Ben...

A 50-year-old polling officer died of a heart attack at a polling booth Sausar's Lodhikheda in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara on Sunday, police said.

Repolling is taking place across 19 polling booths spread across eight districts of Arunachal Pradesh where election malpractices, including booth capturing and attack on polling parties, were reported on April 11.EVM malfunctions were also reported in the first phase of polling in the state, where polling for 60-seat assembly was held simultaneous...

A teacher on election duty at a polling booth in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district died of a heart attack today, an official said.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi took on the Narendra Modi government in Maharashtra's Goregaon, where he had gone to address its poll booth workers - a key move ahead of next year's general elections.

Thirteen people died and around 50 were injured in widespread violence that swept across Bengal, centering the panchayat elections. Instances of violence -- bomb attack, booth capture, ballot boxes set on fire and attacks on journalists -- were reported from at least eight districts. By 5 pm, the turnout was 72 per cent, but voting continued becaus...

An estimated 70-77 per cent polling was today recorded in bypolls to two assembly constituencies in Madhya Pradesh. The bypolls were largely peaceful but some incidents were reported in some booths between the Congress and BJP workers.Mungaoli and Kolaras have seen high-voltage campaigns from the ruling BJP and the Congress that's keen on retaining...

Defence Minister Arun Jaitley hit out at those who have criticised an Army Major for tying a man to the bonnet of his jeep last month as he evacuated election officials from a polling booth attacked by hundreds of stone-throwing protesters in Jammu and Kashmir capital Srinagar.

A motorcycle-borne gang of 30-40 masked men threw bombs at a polling booth in South 24 Parganas' Pujali and damaged EVMs at several other booths even as voting for civic polls in civic bodies in West Bengal, including four in Darjeeling, is underway. When asked which party they were from, they said BJP. Others then shouted 'Jai Shri Ram'. But local...

The heart of the Jammu and Kashmir Valley, Srinagar, is among the 18 seats that are voting in the key Phase Four of the five-phase assembly elections in the state today. Polling began on a sluggish note this morning due to cold, but picked up as the day started to get warmer. Nearly 10 per cent votes were cast in the first two hours. Unlike the las...

BJP MP Locket Chatterjee's car - and those belonging to the press - were allegedly attacked by a mob of angry locals at polling booth No 66 in Bengal's Hooghly district on Saturday morning, where voting for the fourth phase began at 7 am

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today claimed BJP activists were forcibly occupying polling booths and attacking Trinamool members, including party candidates, and asserted that she would not get bogged down by such "intimidating tactics".

The battle for Bengal, which will be fought in polling booths in a couple of months from now, is today being fought by the Trinamool and BJP in Kolkata over the legacy of iconic freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

A sub-inspector of the Border Security Force (BSF) on duty at a polling booth in the Lalganj assembly seat died of heart attack Tuesday, police and hospital sources said.

BJP candidate Bharati Ghosh, a former IPS officer and once a trusted lieutenant of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was in tears Sunday morning after she was attacked, heckled and pushed to the ground at a polling station as the state votes in the sixth round of the national election. Ms Ghosh is the BJP candidate in Bengal's Ghatal.

Violence in Bengal and allegations of malfunctioning electronic voting machines in Delhi marked the sixth round of election, which took place for 59 seats across seven states. The overall turnout was 63.3 per cent. In Delhi, where voting took place for all seven Lok Sabha seats, the voting percentage was 60, down from 65.1 in the 2014 polls. In Ben...

A 50-year-old polling officer died of a heart attack at a polling booth Sausar's Lodhikheda in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara on Sunday, police said.

Repolling is taking place across 19 polling booths spread across eight districts of Arunachal Pradesh where election malpractices, including booth capturing and attack on polling parties, were reported on April 11.EVM malfunctions were also reported in the first phase of polling in the state, where polling for 60-seat assembly was held simultaneous...

A teacher on election duty at a polling booth in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district died of a heart attack today, an official said.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi took on the Narendra Modi government in Maharashtra's Goregaon, where he had gone to address its poll booth workers - a key move ahead of next year's general elections.

Thirteen people died and around 50 were injured in widespread violence that swept across Bengal, centering the panchayat elections. Instances of violence -- bomb attack, booth capture, ballot boxes set on fire and attacks on journalists -- were reported from at least eight districts. By 5 pm, the turnout was 72 per cent, but voting continued becaus...

An estimated 70-77 per cent polling was today recorded in bypolls to two assembly constituencies in Madhya Pradesh. The bypolls were largely peaceful but some incidents were reported in some booths between the Congress and BJP workers.Mungaoli and Kolaras have seen high-voltage campaigns from the ruling BJP and the Congress that's keen on retaining...

Defence Minister Arun Jaitley hit out at those who have criticised an Army Major for tying a man to the bonnet of his jeep last month as he evacuated election officials from a polling booth attacked by hundreds of stone-throwing protesters in Jammu and Kashmir capital Srinagar.

A motorcycle-borne gang of 30-40 masked men threw bombs at a polling booth in South 24 Parganas' Pujali and damaged EVMs at several other booths even as voting for civic polls in civic bodies in West Bengal, including four in Darjeeling, is underway. When asked which party they were from, they said BJP. Others then shouted 'Jai Shri Ram'. But local...

The heart of the Jammu and Kashmir Valley, Srinagar, is among the 18 seats that are voting in the key Phase Four of the five-phase assembly elections in the state today. Polling began on a sluggish note this morning due to cold, but picked up as the day started to get warmer. Nearly 10 per cent votes were cast in the first two hours. Unlike the las...