Moles, dossiers, big money... may sound like the perfect ingredients of a spy thriller, but these have actually become vital to political intelligence gathering in India — a phenomenon seen like never before in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. The...

Campaigning for the fifth and final phase of Lok Sabha elections 2009 ends on Monday evening with political parties trying to organise in as many rallies as possible to woo voters ahead of May 13 polls. Political parties are also busy wooing one...

During this one day visit to Tamil Nadu on Thursday, NDA’s Prime Ministerial candidate and BJP’s senior leader, L K Advani conveyed a strong message to the electorate in Tamil Nadu that it no longer has the tag of a north Indian party. He also said...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday gave a series of directions and guidelines to deal with the menace of ragging in educational institutions. A Bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and A.K. Ganguly gave the directions on petitions relating to cases of...

KOLKATA: Millions of Indians voted in the penultimate stage of a general election on Thursday as violence marred the ballot in the possible swing state of West Bengal where the ruling Congress-led alliance hopes to win crucial seats, reuters...

Sunday was the BJP backroom boys’ day out, and the first-hand feel of the rough and tumble of “real” electioneering left them thrilled. Around 40 cyber-campaign managers stepped out of their digital world at the party war room, 26 Tughlaq...

With his dilapidated Mumbai office, heavy gold jewelery and a gnarly scar on his little finger — which someone tried to slice off “with a chopper” — Sanjay Rasalpatil, one of India’s leading private eyes, seems an unlikely custodian of...

With two phases of the Lok Sabha polls completed, there appears to be a clear resurgence of the national parties, mainly the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party [Images], in Uttar Pradesh [Images]. When the electoral process started, no one had any...

It isn’t easy being Mirwaiz these days. Faced with uncertainties, wrapped in his own dilemmas and buffeted by pulls and pressures, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is probably lucky he can’t step out of his house — cops in Kashmir put him under house...

Here is a roundup of election news from Indian newspapers, news wires and Web sites on Wednesday, April 22. The Wall Street Journal has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Mayawati keeping Third Front options open Bahujan...