The voting process initially was to end at 3:00 p.m. local time but extended for two more hours to enable the voters to use their franchise, head of the election commission Hawa Alam Nuristani told reporters.
While Chhattisgarh has traditionally seen a straight fight between the BJP and the Congress, this time a third front comprising Ajit Jogi's Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J), Mayawati's BSP and the CPI is also in the fray.
According to the Election Commission, 3,459 candidates are contesting for 272 general seats of the National Assembly, while 8,396 candidates are running for 577 general seats of the four provincial assemblies - Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Kolkata: It was a massive turnout of bookworms today that marked the end of the 12-day-long 39th Kolkata International Book Fair held at Milan Mela ground here.With a total sale of around Rs 20.50 crore
Ranchi: Campaigning ended today for the fifth and final phase polling for 16 Assembly constituencies in Jharkhand which will go the polls on December 20. “Polling will begin at 7 AM and end at 3
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HONG KONG: About 150 young pro-democracy activists forced their way into Hong Kong government headquarters late Friday as a weeklong class boycott over Beijing's refusal to allow genuine democratic reforms ended in chaos.The student protesters
Brasilia: A revolt at a prison in the Brazilian state of Parana that left four inmates dead came to an end after prisoners and authorities reached an accord.The rebels agreed to surrender and release two
Colombo: Mahela Jayawardene ended his 17-year Test career on a victorious note on 18th Aug 2014 as Sri Lanka won the second and final Test against Pakistan by 105 runs to sweep the series 2-0. The
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Kokrajhar(Assam): The Bodoland Peoples Front, an ally of Congress in Assam, today broke its 13-year-old alliance with the party accusing it of non-cooperation in development of the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts. “The present Congress government
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LONDON : Doused in champagne by Arsenal's victorious players, Arsene Wenger was soaked in success once again. The nine-year wait for a trophy finally ended Saturday and the manager, who had felt the pressure and
Washington: New York Police Department has disbanded a controversial surveillance unit started after the September 11, 2001, attacks to catalogue information on Muslim businesses and mosques across the New York region.Developed with the CIA's help
Mexico City: A Mexican judge has ordered an end to efforts to revive moribund Mexicana airlines through bankruptcy proceedings, saying no credible new investor had expressed interest in the carrier, officials announced Friday.Before it stopped
Riga: Latvia's rescue service says it has finished searching the site of a collapsed supermarket in which 54 people died, including three firefighters, and at least 40 were injured.The four-day operation was interrupted on Saturday
West Bromwich, May 20: After 1,500 matches in charge of Manchester United, Alex Ferguson was denied a final victory Sunday to cap the most successful managerial career in British football history.But there was one final
New Delhi, Dec 15: Acceding to the request of Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal, cartoonist Aseem Trivedi Friday ended his eight-day fast to demand the government scrap a provision of the Information Technology Act.Trivedi,
Gandhinagar, Oct 22: Britain on Monday said its decision to re-engage with Gujarat should not be seen as an endorsement of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, as it ended its decade-long boycott of the state over
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