New Delhi Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and thanked the people on the BJP’s “big victory” in the Lok Sabha polls. Riding on a massive Modi wave sweeping through most parts of India, the BJP was set to return to power as itRead More

Mumbai The Congress party is trailing on all the seats it contested in Maharashtra. According to the trends available till 1 pm, the BJP is ahead on 24 seats while its ally, Shiv Sena, on 20 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state. Congress ally, the Nationalist CongressRead More

New Delhi With the BJP set to return to power, its parliamentary board is expected to meet on Friday evening at the party headquarters where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to make a speech. Top party leaders, including BJP president Amit Shah and some senior Union ministers besides Modi,Read More

Bhopal The BJP’s controversial candidate Pragya Singh Thakur has established a lead of over two lakh votes against Congress’ Digvijaya Singh in Bhopal, as the saffron party is ahead on 28 out of 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh. The Congress, which wrested power from the BJP in theRead More

Jaipur In a setback to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, his son Vaibhav Gehlot faced defeat in his maiden election from the Jodhpur Lok Sabha seat which was won by the BJP’s Gajendra Singh Shekhawat for a second consecutive time. Shekhawat won the seat with a high margin of 2,74,440Read More

Varanasi Prime Minister Narendra Modi recorded a spectacular victory in Varanasi, clocking a margin of 4,75,754 votes. Modi polled a total of 6,69,602 votes while his nearest rival, Shalini Yadav of the Samajwadi Party (SP), got 1,93,848. Ajay Rai of the Congress got 1,51,800 votes. In 2014, Modi won fromRead More

Lucknow Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s magic appears to have swept the state away—and all opposition aside— as the party retains a majority of parliamentary seats in the state, although fewer that it won 2014. The Prime Minister kept Varansi, winning the temple city by a large margin. By 5 pm,Read More

New Delhi As the world eagerly awaits the results of the high-stakes 17th General Election tomorrow, the Election Commission is learnt to have rejected the Opposition demand for counting VVPAT slips before opening the EVMs. The voting was staggered across seven phases between April 11 and May 19 in whichRead More

New Delhi On a day Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and fellow commissioner Sushil Chandra turned down his demand to incorporate minority view in orders relating to model code violations, Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa today said he still believed that transparency was important and such cases should be dealt withRead More

Islamabad Career diplomat Moin-ul-Haq has been appointed as Pakistan’s new High Commissioner to India to start a fresh process of engagement with the country where a new government will be formed soon, amid strained relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved appointments of over twoRead More