Nigerians are voting in a presidential election this weekend. The race is open for the first time in over a decade and has three candidates vying for the top job. The winner will need to win… Read More
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A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice JB Pardiwala asked how can it stop elections midway when it is already scheduled. (File Reuters Photo) The Supreme Court Thursday… Read More
The Karnataka High Court recently observed that election officials do not have any jurisdiction to search or seize any material before polls are announced. The bench of Justice M Nagaprasann… Read More
The toll booth in Birbhum which was run by some people without a tender and the general notion was they were under 'Kesto Da' was closed after the arrest of Birbhum's chief Anubrata Mondal… Read More
More than one million people could take to the streets in France for ‘historic’ May Day demonstrations against the country’s pension reforms. Air traffic is expected to be… Read More
The Black British Classical foundation is giving a post coronation concert of May 7th, in support of the next monarch and his inclusive coronation. Opinion polls show weakening support for t… Read More
Thousands of people gathered in Istanbul to support opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who is leading in the polls for the upcoming Turkish presidential and legislative elections. The ele… Read More
The leaders of the United Conservative and New Democratic parties are pledging to focus on the needs of the more than 24,000 people forced out of their homes by wildfires in northern and cen… Read More
The Turkish election drama is in full swing with gunshots, warnings of online censorship and election rigging, mobilization of volunteers, and a standoff between Turkey's Interior Ministry a… Read More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and main opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu are concluding their campaigns ahead of the country's closest elections in modern history. The polls have… Read More
The first major elections since 2019 are taking place in Mauritania and there are many candidates who are vying for the support of the public. The elections are seen as a test of the popular… Read More
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, a retired civil servant, has pushed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan into an election runoff - the first of Turkey's post-Ottoman history. Erdogan had held a significant le… Read More
The newly elected Congress MLAs in Karnataka on Sunday authorised party president Mallikarjun Kharge to pick the next chief minister. The CLP, which met at a private hotel in Bengaluru Sunda… Read More
Turkish polls close with Erdogan's fate hanging in balance
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On Sunday, Turks will head to the polls to choose a president and parliament. If incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan is re-elected, traders predict a collapse in the Turkish lira, which is curren… Read More
The Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is seeking a second term in Greece after a draconian regime of spending controls ordered by international bailout lenders ended last summe… Read More
The polls have opened in Greece's parliamentary election, the first since the country's economy ceased to be subject to strict supervision and control by international lenders who had provid… Read More
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar has said that technology-driven methods, such as e-postal ballots, should be used to allow eligible overseas Indian voters to participate in elections… Read More
President Bola Tinubu lauded the recently finished 2023 general elections as a true monument to the country’s democratic progress.
According to this online newspaper, Tinubu declared t… Read More
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has suggested that the consumption of meat and alcohol could be banned in Ayodhya, a religious city where the construction of the Ram temple is u… Read More
The Gujarat High Court has ordered the accused in a rape case to be produced in court so that the possibility of a "compromise" between him and the 16-year-old rape survivor can be explored… Read More
Sierra Leone's president and People's Party nominee, Julius Maada Bio, has called for a peaceful election ahead of polls opening on 24 June. Bio, who championed education and women's rights… Read More
Cambodia's National Assembly has passed an amendment to the election law that will prevent those who do not vote in next month's elections from standing in future polls. The change appears t… Read More
Sierra Leone is ready for the presidential election on Saturday, with the electoral commission having distributed materials countrywide. Over 1.78 million people are expected to vote in an e… Read More
Sierra Leoneans have cast their votes in presidential and parliamentary elections amid a cost-of-living crisis that led to deadly riots last year. Incumbent Julius Maada Bio is vying for re… Read More
Greece is holding its second general election in five weeks, with conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis expected to win re-election by a large margin. Mitsotakis and his main rival, Alexis… Read More
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who was considered Donald Trump's biggest rival for the Republican presidential primaries, has fallen behind the former president in almost all major opinion p… Read More
The ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has won the legislative elections with 81 seats, while the opposition All People’s Congress (APC) won 54. The APC has refused to par… Read More
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Raipur, Chhattisgarh to launch development projects worth Rs 7,600 crore. This will be his first visit to the Congress-led state, which will go t… Read More
A report titled "105 promises, 13 achievements" criticizes Gabonese President Ali Bongo's second 7-year term. The report states that many infrastructure projects promised by the President we… Read More
South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party is open to working with opposition parties to remove the ruling African National Congress (ANC) from power in next year's legislative ele… Read More
Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, is facing re-election with polls suggesting he will lose his position in the general election on July 23. Sánchez's chances depend on a s… Read More
The UK's ruling Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, suffered losses in two parliamentary seats due to scandals and high inflation. However, they narrowly held onto Boris J… Read More
Exit polls from Spain's election suggest that the conservative party PP is likely to lead negotiations to form a new government, potentially ending the socialist rule of Prime Minister Pedro… Read More
Cambodia has held a parliamentary election that is expected to result in an easy victory for the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP), led by Prime Minister Hun Sen. Preliminary results sho… Read More
China is expressing anger over the upcoming visit of Democratic Progressive Party Vice President Lai Ching-te to the US en-route to Paraguay, with Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng describing it a… Read More
Assistant professor Sabyasachi Das and professor Pulapre Balakrishnan have resigned from Ashoka University amidst a controversy over Das's research paper on the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Das's c… Read More
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), has announced ten "guarantees" for the upcoming assembly polls in Chhattisgarh, including free electricity, monthly… Read More
Members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs have protested against being asked to participate in meetings at short notice to discuss three key criminal law bills. The com… Read More
The incumbent President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared winner of the country’s presidential polls on Saturday, August 26 after securing a majority in a tense presidential… Read More
The Supreme Court has refused to interfere with the Punjab and Haryana High Court's order to stay the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elections. The Andhra Pradesh Amateur Wrestling Asso… Read More
Taiwan's richest man and founder of Foxconn, Terry Gou, has confirmed his bid for the 2024 presidential election. Gou must gather 290,000 petition signatures to officially run as an independ… Read More
Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo has told Nigerians that the country is poor.
This is as he commended President Bola Tinubu for his courage to end fuel subsidy.
Soludo, who spoke on Tu… Read More
The Supreme Court has reserved its verdict on a plea by the National Conference challenging the denial of the 'plough' symbol to its candidates for the upcoming Ladakh Autonomous Hill Develo… Read More
Canadian Sikhs are grateful to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for speaking out about their fears and standing up to India regarding the killing of a Sikh separatist leader. The Indian governm… Read More
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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing growing disunity within his Conservative government, with ministers and faction leaders expressing disapproval of his leadership. This rebellion comes… Read More
In an attempt to substantiate his claim, Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general election, has requested permission from the Supr… Read More
DR Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has submitted his candidacy for a second term in office, joining a crowded list of presidential hopefuls including opposition heavyweights and a Nobel P… Read More
Liberia's National Elections Commission is finalizing the results of the presidential and legislative polls held on Tuesday. Ballot papers have been brought to the Data Centre where official… Read More
A recent poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that only 9% of Americans support car companies in their dispute with striking auto workers. The… Read More
As Taiwan's presidential elections approach, the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) Lai Ching-te, the incumbent vice president, faces no significant challenge from the opposition. Efforts… Read More
Argentina is heading to the polls in the midst of a severe economic crisis, with a far-right libertarian candidate, economist Javier Milei, in the lead. The election is expected to have sign… Read More
The Democratic Republic of Congo's electoral commission has released a provisional list of 24 candidates who have registered for the presidential elections on December 20. The candidates sti… Read More
The high-level committee headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind, which is examining the issue of simultaneous elections in India, has been renamed the High-Level Committee on One Nation… Read More
The Election Commission has ordered the transfer of Karimnagar Collector B Gopi and Police Commissioner L Subba Rayudu in Telangana. The BJP's Election Commission Affairs Committee Chairman… Read More
Colorado voters will decide on two statewide ballot measures in the upcoming election. Proposition HH asks voters to allow the state to keep surplus tax revenue and lower property tax rates… Read More
The Kremlin is confident that Russian President Vladimir Putin will win the 2024 presidential election if he chooses to run for another term. Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin's press secretary, st… Read More
The Limboo-Tamang Voluntary Committee (LTVC) organized a protest march in Jorethang, West Sikkim, demanding reservation for the Limboo and Tamang communities in the Sikkim Legislative Assemb… Read More