In the Andhra Pradesh elections, which were all about YSRCP versus TDP, both the BJP and the Congress were decimated. For the Congress, this is the second successive election when it drew a blank in both the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in the new state of Andhra ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) victory in the Lok Sabha elections was possible because of the work done by party veteran L.K. Advani. "The BJP's successes today are possible because greats like him spent decades ...
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar's plea seeking extension of the protection granted to him from arrest in the Saradha chit fund scam case. His protection from arrest ends today. Rejecting the plea, an apex court bench observed that Kumar's plea was not ...
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) maintained the 2014 tally this year too by winning 12 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats along with its ally. In 2014, the BJP fought alone and won 12 seats. This year, the saffron party gave the Giridih seat to its ally, All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU). ...
Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) President Niranjan Patnaik resigned on Friday after taking responsibility for the debacle in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls. Patnaik said that he has already sent his resignation to All India Congress Committee (AICC) President Rahul Gandhi....
The BJP made major gains in rural constituencies of east India and lost the most in rural north. A deep dive into the Lok Sabha election results brings out a clear picture of how the nation voted in a historic verdict in favour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi....
Owning moral responsibility for the rout of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh, state Congress President Raj Babbar has reportedly sent his resignation to Congress President Rahul Gandhi. The Congress could win only one seat (Rae Bareli) in the state and Rahul Gandhi ...
The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the Centre to file a response to a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions to the Election Commission (EC) to review political parties having names with religious connotation and those using symbols similar to that of the national flag....
Newly-elected Lok Sabha member Prajwal Revanna of the ruling Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) on Friday offered to resign from the Hassan parliamentary seat to get his grandfather and party's supremo H.D. Deve Gowda re-elected. "As my grandfather is the founder and builder of the JD-S, I want to resign and ...
After smashing through all bastions in north and middle India -- from Haryana, Himachal, Uttarakhand and Delhi in the north to Bengal in the east, all the way up to Assam in the northeast, Hindutva has a new sheen, hue and connotation. It is a relentless drum roll of persuasion which argues for Hindutva Plus, dynasty be damned....
