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A new national poll suggests that President Barack Obama is personally more popular than his policies. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, two days before Obama marks 100 days in the White House, indicates that three in four Americans feel Obama has the personal qualities a president should have. But when asked if Obama agrees with the respondent on the issues, that number drops to 57 percent. The survey also indicates that 63 percent of Americans approve of how Obama is handling his duties as president. One in three questioned in the poll disapprove.

The world's biggest poll, to elect 543 members to the Lok Sabha, starts today with voting being held in six constituencies in 2 north-east states i.e. Assam and Tripura.

Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) elections polling began on a dull response on Sunday with many polling booths across the city reporting a lukewarm note from the electorate. Very less number of people were seen standing outside the polling booths in residential areas of Cox Town, Lingara

Since the polls are approaching so all parties are busy in short-listing the names of their candidates. But the actual problem that has become a hard nut to crack is distribution of tickets to the candidates and their constituencies. A tug-of-war is possibly going on inside the house of BJP over the issue of Lok Sabha seats.

The schedule for organising the biggest democratic event of India, i.e. 16th Lok Sabha elections, is announced by Election Commission today in Vigyan Bhawan. VS Sampat represented the Election Commission and announced the dates for the polling which will be commenced from April 7 to May 12 , that will occur in 9 phases and last for almost two months.

The 3rd list of congress has given a tremendous blow to Suresh Kalmadi's desire as he did not get any ticket to contest in upcoming Lok Sabha polls. As being a senior congress leader, he did not responded to his duties responsibly. There were found irregularities in the preparations of the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games.

On Monday, Election Commission ordered West Bengal government to transfer eight of its officials but defiant Mamata Banerjee took a stand over it and refused to make transfer. Now, following the denial of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Election Commission is likely to take action against it and as per source EC may cancel polls in the concerned districts.

The counting of votes for the Karnataka by-polls commenced at 8 am on Monday and the results are expected post noon. Currently, the BJP is leading in 10 out of the 15 assembly constituencies that went to poll. With 105 seats in the assembly, the BJP needs to win at least 6 six to win a majority.

The much-awaited event of year 2014 of the world's largest democracy is set to approach and Election Commission (EC) of India were also busy in fixing and deciding the exact dates and number of phases for upcoming 16th Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP's poll committee conduct again a meeting today in the middle of the buzz that the senior most leader of BJP LK Advani could participate in the general polls this time from Bhopal in Shivraj Singh Chouhan's Madhya Pradesh rather than from Gandhinagar in Narendra Modi's Gujarat.

Delhi cops has captures around 5,000 quarter bottles of illegal liquor from different places of national capital since it introduced a special drive to check its smuggling in the run up to the general polls.

Finally, the most-awaited and long-delayed manifesto of BJP for 2014 General Elections has been released by the party in the presence of its top leaders Narendra Modi, Lal Krishna Advani, Rajnath Singh and Murli Manohar Joshi.

The Election Commission on Friday asked Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to be careful with his utterances in the future, days after the BJP leader called Indian army as Modiji ki sena. The top-polling body had issued a notice to Adityanath and asked him to reply by April 5.

The Election Commission on Friday asked Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to be careful with his utterances in the future, days after the BJP leader called Indian army as Modiji ki sena. The top-polling body had issued a notice to Adityanath and asked him to reply by April 5.

Maharashtra Congress has taken strong objection to two channels for airing serials focusing on schemes of Centre, at a time when Model Code of Conduct (MCC) is in place for the upcoming polls. The party approached the Election Commission on Monday and sought a ban on these channels.

Egyptians are preparing to the head to the polls for the opening stage of the first elections since former President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in February.

Amid mob of zillions in New Delhi, AAP party's leader and Delhi CM Mr. Arvind Kejriwal spoke out clearly his vision and future plans regarding sweeping of corrupts to be done in the parliament on Friday in a rally.

The wrestle of polls seems to have now turned into a wrestle of nude photoshoots now. After Gujarat based model and actress Meghna Patel took nude pictures to show her support to BJP ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Tanisha Singh moved forward at the pitch for Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi in the same manner.

The diplomatic tug-of-war is picking pace ahead of general Lok Sabha polls, the biggest democratic exercise ever in the history of Indian democracy. Yesterday was an eventful day in Gujarat where Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal arrived for exposing the actual development of the state.

New CM, Mr. Arvind Kejriwal's speech that occurred in the Delhi Assembly previous day, with dexterity displayed the political vocabulary that supplied his oversized success in the last month's polls.

The conflicts in AAP house are no more the issues to be kept in secret inside. The founder members and prominent party leaders of AAP have begun showcasing their anger over the ticket distribution ahead of LS polls.