Up Mayoral Polls

Celebrations sparkled up the Times Square in New York City yesterday as the Indian community and several US citizens gathered to observe the Hindu festival of lights.

Taking a strict view of the alleged defacement of ballot papers during the Chandigarh mayoral election, the Supreme Court has said that the returning officer, Anil Masih, should be prosecuted.

AAP leader Raghav Chadha has predicted a "historic and decisive" win for the INDIA bloc in Thursday's Chandigarh mayoral election, and billed the INDIA vs BJP contest as the perfect curtain-raiser for the Lok Sabha election due in April/May.

Devendra Fadnavis gave up the opportunity to install a BJP mayor in Mumbai after the 2017 civic polls for the sake of the Shiv Sena at his request, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said on Saturday.

BJP's Sushma Kharakwal is ahead of Samajwadi Party's Vandana Mishra by 530 votes in Lucknow.

The Bahujan Samaj Party giving 11 out of 17 nominations to Muslim candidates for the election to mayoral posts in Uttar Pradesh is seen as a move to split the Samajwadi Party's traditional Muslim-Yadav vote bank.

Atiq Ahmad's wife Shaista Parveen had joined the BSP in the presence of its senior leaders on January 5, and was reportedly being considered as the party's mayoral candidate for Prayagraj.

Kanpur Mayor Pramila Pandey today created a controversy when she clicked pictures and videos inside the polling booth. Ms Pandey shared the photo of her voting for Bharatiya Janata Party during the third-phase of UP assembly polls.

Former Congress MP from Bareilly Praveen Singh and Congress leader and former Bareilly Mayor Supriya Aron joined Samajwadi Party on Saturday.

The break up of the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra may have an impact on Mumbai''s mayoral polls scheduled for November 22.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with the 14 recently-elected mayors of the state

BJP chief Amit Shah said on Friday that his party's victory in the Uttar Pradesh mayoral polls was nothing compared to what was going to happen in Gujarat on December 18, when the state Assembly election results would be declared.

In a shot in the arm for the Bahujan Samaj Party or BSP, its candidate Mohammad Furqan won the mayoral contest in Aligarh even as the BJP otherwise dominated the civic polls in the state.

Sanyukta Bhatia of the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh is set to be the first woman mayor of state capital Lucknow in 100 years. Before counting began this morning for the urban body polls, the 70-year-old prayed at two temples and a Gurudwara. After four straight Mayor wins in Lucknow, she doesn't really need divine intervention.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has delivered in his first big test, with the BJP winning mayoral elections in 14 of 16 municipal corporations in Uttar Pradesh. "The BJP's historic win in the UP civic polls is because of PM Modi's development policies and Amit Shah's guidance," said the Chief Minister, who conducted a turbo-charged campaign with his...

Celebrations sparkled up the Times Square in New York City yesterday as the Indian community and several US citizens gathered to observe the Hindu festival of lights.

Taking a strict view of the alleged defacement of ballot papers during the Chandigarh mayoral election, the Supreme Court has said that the returning officer, Anil Masih, should be prosecuted.

AAP leader Raghav Chadha has predicted a "historic and decisive" win for the INDIA bloc in Thursday's Chandigarh mayoral election, and billed the INDIA vs BJP contest as the perfect curtain-raiser for the Lok Sabha election due in April/May.

Devendra Fadnavis gave up the opportunity to install a BJP mayor in Mumbai after the 2017 civic polls for the sake of the Shiv Sena at his request, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said on Saturday.

BJP's Sushma Kharakwal is ahead of Samajwadi Party's Vandana Mishra by 530 votes in Lucknow.

The Bahujan Samaj Party giving 11 out of 17 nominations to Muslim candidates for the election to mayoral posts in Uttar Pradesh is seen as a move to split the Samajwadi Party's traditional Muslim-Yadav vote bank.

Atiq Ahmad's wife Shaista Parveen had joined the BSP in the presence of its senior leaders on January 5, and was reportedly being considered as the party's mayoral candidate for Prayagraj.

Kanpur Mayor Pramila Pandey today created a controversy when she clicked pictures and videos inside the polling booth. Ms Pandey shared the photo of her voting for Bharatiya Janata Party during the third-phase of UP assembly polls.

Former Congress MP from Bareilly Praveen Singh and Congress leader and former Bareilly Mayor Supriya Aron joined Samajwadi Party on Saturday.

The break up of the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra may have an impact on Mumbai''s mayoral polls scheduled for November 22.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with the 14 recently-elected mayors of the state

BJP chief Amit Shah said on Friday that his party's victory in the Uttar Pradesh mayoral polls was nothing compared to what was going to happen in Gujarat on December 18, when the state Assembly election results would be declared.

In a shot in the arm for the Bahujan Samaj Party or BSP, its candidate Mohammad Furqan won the mayoral contest in Aligarh even as the BJP otherwise dominated the civic polls in the state.

Sanyukta Bhatia of the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh is set to be the first woman mayor of state capital Lucknow in 100 years. Before counting began this morning for the urban body polls, the 70-year-old prayed at two temples and a Gurudwara. After four straight Mayor wins in Lucknow, she doesn't really need divine intervention.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has delivered in his first big test, with the BJP winning mayoral elections in 14 of 16 municipal corporations in Uttar Pradesh. "The BJP's historic win in the UP civic polls is because of PM Modi's development policies and Amit Shah's guidance," said the Chief Minister, who conducted a turbo-charged campaign with his...