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Pak media follows India election results closely

Islamabad: India’s election results made headlines Thursday in Pakistan, with the media keeping a close watch on the ruling BJP’s electoral fortunes by providing comprehensive coverage of the initial trends and reactions. The results of India’s general elections are very significant for Pakistan as the...

AIADMK leads in 10 seats in TN by-poll

Chennai: The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu seemed to be on course to win a comfortable number of seats in the 22 Assembly segments in which by-polls were held, signalling that K Palaniswami can breathe easy and continue in the saddle for another two years...

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Pragya breaks her silence

Bhopal: BJP’s Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Pragya Singh Thakur, who recently kicked up a row with some of her remarks and was observing silence for 63 hours as a mark of penance, broke the vow Thursday to express her elation over poll trends which...

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BJD leading in Khurda, Begunia and Chilika Assembly seats

Khurda: The MLA candidates of ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) are leading in Khurda, Begunia and Chilika Assembly segments, EC sources said. BJD’s Jyotirindranath Mitra is leading in Khurda Assembly segment. Similarly, the ruling party’s Rajendra Kumar Sahoo and Prasanta Kumar Jagdev are leading respectively...

BJP maintains comfortable lead in Uttarakhand

Dehradun: The BJP is surging ahead on all five Lok Sabha seats in Uttarakhand with its candidates maintaining comfortable leads over their nearest rivals, the Congress.  State BJP president Ajay Bhatt is leading by a margin of 1,06,373 votes over Congress general secretary and former...

Congress wins Parrikar’s seat in Goa

Panaji: After 25 years of uninterrupted run, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday failed to retain the Panaji Assembly constituency, largely represented by late Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar since 1994. The BJP candidate Sidharth Kuncalienkar lost to Congress’ Atanasio Monserrate by 1,758 votes. Monserrate polled...

BJD workers at the party office watching the election results on a large screen

BJD ahead in both Assembly, LS seats

Bhubaneswar: Early trends in Odisha have given the incumbent Biju Janata Dal (BJD) a clear majority in Assembly. The party is leading in over 90 Assembly constituencies while the BJP is leading in 27 seats. The Congress is leading in 13 seats only. In Lok...

BJP makes massive gains in West Bengal

Kolkata: The BJP seems to be making deep inroads into West Bengal by leading in 16 seats, while Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) is currently ahead in 25 seats in the state. The Congress is leading in one constituency, while the Left is yet to...

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Odisha Assembly trends: BJD leading in 21, BJP in six

Bhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidates were leading in 21 and BJP nominees in six Assembly constituencies as per initial trends, officials said Thursday. BJP legilature party leader K V Singhdeo was trailing behind BJD's Saroj Kumar Meher in Patnagarh Assembly seat which...

 

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