WASHINGTON: A popular meme circulating online shows a schoolkid telling his teacher “the dog ate my homework and an immigrant ate my dog.” With a growing roster of polls showing Kamala Harris edging ahead in the Presidential election, both nationwide and in battleground states, the Trump campaign is building redundancies into its election denialism, proffering…
WASHINGTON: Kamala Harris has widened her lead over Donald Trump in all but one of dozen different polls tracked by the polling aggregator 538 after their presidential debate. Her lead in nationwide popular vote now ranges between 2 points to 7 points, with most of them beyond the typical 3.5 point margin of error. Only…
WASHINGTON: Conservative Republicans continue to publicly abandon MAGA supremo Donald Trump amid signs his campaign is starting to tank in the face of growing support for Kamala Harris from women and gen z voters. Former vice-president Mike Pence, whose life was threatened by a MAGA mob during the January 6 insurrection, publicly said on Tuesday…
NEW DELHI: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief spokesperson Suhail Bukhari on Tuesday quit the party after not being given the mandate to contest in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections, PTI reported.He had anticipated contesting from the Wagoora-Kreeri seat, but the return of former minister Basharat Bukhari to the PDP last month reduced his chances…
NEW DELHI: EC will visit J&K, where assembly polls are to be conducted before Sept 30 as per SC’s orders, between Aug 8 and 10 to assess overall poll preparedness. Since the review is a standard protocol followed by EC prior to announcement of polls in any state/UT, the visit is being seen as pointer…
NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir, which witnessed record turnouts in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls, has a rather busy security calendar in the months ahead. With the Amarnath yatra due to start on June 29 and stretching till Aug 19 and the impending polls at various levels — panchayat, urban bodies and assembly, of which…
Bengal witnessed polling at a brisker pace till 5pm on Saturday in the penultimate phase, compared to the earlier ones, but it was marred by the poll-eve murder of a Trinamool Congress worker in East Midnapore‘s Mahisadal and a near fatal attack on another in Moyna in the same district. Despite sporadic incidents of violence,…
Less than 24 hours before the sixth phase of polls, West Bengal police seized Rs 24 lakh cash from the car of a BJP functionary in West Midnapore on Friday. Prasanta Bera, who had contested 2021 assembly polls from Daspur in West Midnapore, was detained after he failed to provide any valid document for carrying…
SRINAGAR: Srinagar-Ganderbal LS seat will vote Monday in the first J&K polls since the Aug 2019 abrogation of Article 370.Srinagar will be the first of Valley’s three constituencies to go to the ballot. Two dozen candidates are in the fray. But the contest is largely three-cornered among National Conference’s (NC) Aga Ruhulla, PDP’s Waheed Para…
RAIPUR: Over 64% of Bastar‘s 14 lakh electorate defied the Maoist threat and turned up to vote by 5pm in the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls on Friday. This figure is expected to rise.This is being held in the backdrop of the most aggressive anti-Maoist operations in nearly two decades of insurgency. As…
