Election

Chennai: A total of 541,150 voters, or about 1.8 per cent of the electorate, in Tamil Nadu have picked NOTA (None of the Above) in the Lok Sabha elections, according to the Election Commission. A total of 822 candidates contested the elections in Tamil Nadu...

Bhubaneswar: Amid celebrations in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) camp for the stupendous victory in the Lok Sabha elections, two of its high-profile leaders lost in Odisha. Former MP Baijayant Panda, who was contesting from the Kendrapara Parliament constituency, lost to actor-turned Rajya Sabha MP...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah Friday called on party veterans LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, a day after the party-led NDA returned to power at the Centre with a massive mandate. https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1131791055295307776 "Called on respected Advani Ji. The...

Shimla: As many as 37 candidates, including all the four BSP contestants, lost their security deposit in Himachal Pradesh Lok Sabha polls, a state election officer said Friday. None of the 37 out of the total 45 candidates for the four Lok Sabha seats in...

Bhubaneswar: The BJP has improved its Lok Sabha performance in Odisha by winning five seats and remaining ahead in two out of the 21 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state, EC sources said. This is a great shift from 2014 when the saffron party had...

Ramallah: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his party's victory in the parliamentary elections, conveying his "sincere felicitations" and ‘wishing success’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a super-sized victory for a second term in...

Lucknow: The BJP and its ally Apna Dal(S) are set to win 64 of Uttar Pradesh's 80 Lok Sabha seats, demolishing the challenge posed by the SP-BSP alliance, which is expected to get 15 seats between them. The BJP has won 61 seats and its...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen Patnaik Friday retained his home turf Hinjili for a fifth consecutive term, trouncing nearest rival and BJP nominee Pitambar Acharya from the Assembly seat by 60,160 votes, EC sources said. The BJD supremo, who is...

New Delhi: Riding the Modi wave, a record number of Union Ministers marched to Lok Sabha, although former bureaucrats and senior cabinet ministers Hardeep Puri and KJ Alphons failed to make it. Textile Minister Smriti Irani emerged as a giant-killer against Congress president Rahul Gandhi...

Kolkata: Bengal witnessed a saffron surge Thursday as the BJP inflicted a deadly blow to state’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) by winning 16 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state and leading in two other, the results of which are to come Friday....