The BJP-led NDA may get less than half of the seats it won in Uttar Pradesh in last Lok Sabha election and its tally could go down from from 73 to 30-35, according to predictions by brokerage firm Ambit. ...
Apparently sensing that it may miss the majority mark in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, the BJP is understood to have already devised a plan to tap new allies and independents to enable it to meet the potential shortfall....
The worlds richest Hindu temple at Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh is sitting on pure gold reserves of over 9,000 kg, officials said....
The CPI-M on Thursday asked Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and the Supreme Court to "take the court out of the crises in which it is currently mired"....
In a major embarrassment to the government, retired Admiral L. Ramdas on Thursday refuted Prime Minister Narendra Modis claim that the late Rajiv Gandhi and his family had enjoyed a family cruise on the INS Viraat....
With a preliminary probe revealing bogus voting in the postal ballots of police officials in Kerala, the Congress party on Thursday demanded a judicial inquiry into the matter while the state police chief ordered a full fledged investigation by the Crime Branch. ...
Repolling in 13 polling booths in Tamil Nadu on May 19 has been necessitated as the presiding officers there forgot to format the EVMs and there were allegations of some people were not allowed to vote, the state Chief Electoral Officer said on Thursday. ...
In 2011, former IPS officer-turned-lawyer T.P. Soundarajan filed a plea in the Supreme Court seeking to know the stock of gold in the famed Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple here. Since then, speculation has pegged the value of the gold stored in the temple at over Rs 1 lakh crore....
The prime accused in the Alwar gangrape case was picked up from Uttar Pradesh's Mathura on Thursday, taking the number of those arrested to five even as BJP held protests accusing the government of "deliberately suppressing" the case in view of the Lok Sabha elections....
The New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency may house all the Central government offices but local issues have played their role in the elections, with sealing being the burning one....
