Politics

Earlier on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had tweeted, 'Will be going to Gujarat tomorrow evening, to seek blessings of my Mother. Day after tomorrow morning, I will be in Kashi to thank the people of this great land for reposing their faith in me...

The leaders claimed that the arrival of all of them around the same time was coincidental but political analyst Mahadev Prakash says the meeting is no co-incidence.

The prime minister received telephone calls from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British PM Theresa May, former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa among others.

The Bharatiya Janata Party won all 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, repeating its 2014 performance.

Referring to BJP's win in 25 of the 28 seats in the state, R Ashok, a former deputy chief minister, said it meant people voted for it in more than 177 assembly segments.

The SKM, founded in 2013, won a slender majority in the 32-member legislative assembly by bagging 17 seats against 15 won by the SDF.

Suspected cow vigilantes allegedly thrashed two persons in Madhya Pradesh's Seoni with sticks, accusing them of carrying beef, following which five accused have been arrested, police said Saturday.

Mallikarjun Kharge has tasted his first electoral defeat in his fiefdom Gulbarga. He never lost an election till May 23 and in the past, had won nine assembly and two Lok Sabha elections in a row.

In East Delhi's Okhla assembly segment where minorities are in a deciding position, Congress's Arvinder Singh Lovely garnered over 60,000 votes, while Atishi of AAP was on the second spot with over 43,000 votes. BJP candidate Gautam Gambhir got over 35,00...

The 16th Lok Sabha had eight per cent of MPs below the age of 40, according to PRS Legislative Research.

Popularly known as “Jay Panda”, the BJP candidate lost to BJD’s actor-turned-Rajya Sabha member Anubhav Mohanty by a margin of 1,52,584 votes.

The five suspects were arrested in Horowpathana area on the day when the Parliament passed the state of emergency with 22 lawmakers voting for it and eight Tamil National Alliance members voting against it, the Daily Mirror reported.

Eleven of them are from the BJP, four from the Shiv Sena, two from the NCP, one is an independent backed by the NCP, and one each is from the Congress and AIMIM.

After trailing in the initial stage, outgoing Chief Minister Naidu won from Kuppam in Chottore District with a majority of 30,309 votes against YSRCP candidate Chandramouli.

The three regional parties — the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP), Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and Vikassheel Insan Party (VIP) — have failed to open their account and their leaders have lost the polls with huge margins.

Congress managed to win just nine Assembly seats in the state while only of its Lok Sabha candidates won in the state. In the 2014 polls for Odisha’s 147-member Assembly, 16 Congress candidates had won. The party had failed to get victory in any of the 21...