Video Claiming 'EVM Scam' Amid Lok Sabha Polls Is Misleading

Multiple social media users shared a video showing a group standing on a goods carrier and purportedly holding EVMs in their hands. The voice in the background, seemingly of the person recording the video, claims that the BJP was doing an EVM scam.

It is the year of elections. India, which is in the middle of a six-week-long general elections, is the "only thing that looks stable", says top US political scientist Ian Bremmer.

Less than 10 per cent of the candidates contesting in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections are women, according to an analysis of data shared by the poll rights body Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal made it clear on Wednesday that his wife Sunita is not likely to contest elections in the future, saying she has no interest in active politics even though she came out aggressively in public after his arrest.

A short-term rally either leading into elections or the week after results could potentially push the Nifty beyond 23,000, international research firm Bernstein said.

As many as 20 crorepatis are contesting in the six Lok Sabha constituencies in Odisha scheduled to go to the polls in the last phase of the elections on June 1, Odisha Election Watch and the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said today.