Election

New Delhi: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury took responsibility Thursday for his party’s dismal performance in the Lok Sabha polls. He stated that as the chief of the party, he was the ‘first’ person who was accountable for its poor show. Speaking at a press...

Srinagar: Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah won the election to the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency Thursday by trouncing his nearest rival by 70,050 votes, entering the lower house of Parliament for the fourth time. Abdullah polled...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi removed the ‘chowkidar’ prefix from his Twitter handle but said the word remains an integral part of him. Modi had added ‘chowkidar’ in his Twitter handle March 17, a day after launching the ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ (I am a...

New Delhi: Buoyed by phenomenal Lok Sabha poll verdict, senior BJP leaders, including Union Ministers as also NDA allies credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah for the superb showing. Many described the landslide victory as a ‘tsunami’ amid Modi’s assertion that...

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan congratulated Thursday his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on his victory in the general elections and expressed desire to work with him for peace, progress and prosperity in the region. “I congratulate Prime Minister Modi on the electoral victory of...

New Delhi: With the BJP headed for a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday India has won again and together with everyone, a strong and inclusive nation will be built. Riding on a massive Modi wave sweeping through...

Nabarangpur: Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Nityananda Gond has won the Umarkote Assembly seat by defeating Biju Janata Dal’s (BJD’s) Subash Gond by a margin of 9,763 votes, Election Commission sources said. Out of 1, 52, 746 votes polled, the BJP candidate received 59,663 votes, while...

New Delhi: The BJP has repeated the near improbable feat of repeating its landslide victory in north and west India with its vote share jumping over 50 per cent in many states, as the party appears set to surpass its 2014 total of 282 Lok...

Kalpetta (Kerala): Congress president Rahul Gandhi is heading for a record-breaking margin against his nearest rival CPI’s PP Suneer in the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency here Thursday, as roads in front of counting centres in this hill town wore a deserted look. As counting progressed,...

Nabarangpur: Biju Janata Dal’s (BJD) Prakash Chandra Majhi was declared winner in Jharigam Assembly seat in the tribal-dominated Nabarangpur district, Election Commission sources said. Majhi defeated his close opponent—Congress’s Uldhar Majhi— by a margin of 31,444 votes. Prakash got 77, 535 votes, while Uldhar Majhi...