First time voters scripting a new electoral demography

Electoral power of women

Tribal voters & yield of Forest Rights Act

AAP makes Lok Sabha debut in Punjab

Seasoned politicians defeated by aam aadmis

Models of development

PPP will strengthen health sector: Harsh Vardhan

Environmental activists as politicians

What women can expect

Will Modi take care that women do not become victims of economic progress?

Election 2014: Five things India is counting on

Madhya Pradesh village protests for right to vote

There is no village, says collector

Western Ghats conservation now a poll issue in Kerala’s Idukki

Congress denies ticket to sitting MP P T Thomas, fields debutant

61 women make it to Lok Sabha in 2014 against 59 in 2009

Not a single woman candidate has won from Jharkhand, Haryana

Corruption taint mattered little

People vote in politicians accused in illegal mining activities in Karnataka, Odisha

Tribals beaten up by TMC workers in Sundarbans

People fear losing their land to local goons in the climate change hot spot

AAP rides on drug abuse issue in Punjab

Activists say Punjab may lose an entire generation to drug abuse

With about 50 countries voting, 2014 could be world’s most democratic year

Lok Sabha Election 2014 in India is seen as the world’s biggest democratic exercise with more than 814 million people eligible to vote

April 2014 is world’s most democratic month

Citizens of about 50 countries will be voting this year to choose their leaders or governments

Modi takes oath as PM with 45 ministers

Prakash Javdekar gets Environment ministry and I&B, Gopinath Munde given the charge of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj portfolios

Saranda defies Maoists to cast vote

Tribal voters refused to allow polling officers to put ink mark on their finger nail, fearing reprisal by Maoists

Why Congress faced rout in tribal areas

Faulty implementation of FRA said to be a reason for party winning just three of the 41 tribal seats in the country

Telangana will give top priority to welfare of poor, agriculture: Chandrasekhar Rao

Naidu's farm loan waiver promise to people of Seemandhra to cost exchequer Rs 40,000 crore

What did the UPA in?

The Congress alliance risked running a welfare programme-oriented government while at the same time giving a consumerist direction to the economy

Bachelors' villages in Bihar announce poll boycott

Residents of twin villages in Kaimur district say government move to shift polling station 8 km away will dent their chances of finding brides

Blood donation declines sharply in West Bengal in poll season

Students’ unions and trade unions that actively participate in blood donation camps are busy campaigning

Uttarakhand disaster robs Congress of all seats in state

In February this year, the UPA had replaced Vijay Bahuguna with Harish Rawat as chief minister of the state