Election

Amaravati: A fire broke out at one of the counting centres in Andhra Pradesh's Tirupati town Monday night, police said. The incident occurred at an engineering college on the outskirts of the town where officials had set up tables and made other arrangements for counting...

Kolkata: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu held a meeting with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her residence here Monday to decide on forming a non-BJP government at the Centre in case of a hung verdict, TMC sources said....

New Delhi: With the exit polls predicting a debacle for the Left Front in the Lok Sabha election, the leaders of various Left parties are set to play a waiting game as regards joining the UPA or being part of a non-Congress federal front. A...

Bhopal: BJP’s Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Pragya Singh Thakur, who recently kicked up a row with some of her remarks, on Monday apologised for it and said she is observing “silence” for 63 hours as a mark of penance. Thakur, an accused in the...

Hyderabad: Soon after the exit polls projected an easy win for Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in Telangana and the NDA in Delhi Sunday evening, K Chandrasekhar Rao summoned his team of senior leaders to Hyderabad. Exit polls had projected that the TRS would sweep the...

New Delhi: A day after exit polls painted a grim picture for the Congress, the party headquarters here wore a deserted look even though a handful of workers present there rejected the forecast that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would return to power. Most exit polls...

New Delhi: Buoyed by exit poll predictions, the BJP has started preparation to celebrate Lok Sabha election results on May 23 in a big way at the party headquarters here. Most exit polls Sunday forecast another term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with some of...

New Delhi: As the predictions give a boost to the BJP’s “Abki baar, 300 paar” claim, most of the opposition leaders have ridiculed the polls and believe that the exit poll figures are making erroneous claims. Here’s what some prominent Opposition leaders had to say...

Kolkata: Miffed with exit poll predictions, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is busy with post-poll calculations based on reports received from the districts, a senior party leader said Monday. The senior leader, however, dismissed the predictions. “We do not have to worry about these exit poll...

Mumbai: The Shiv Sena Monday hit out at the opposition parties for trying to come together to keep the BJP out of power after the Lok Sabha poll results, saying the country cannot afford to have a coalition government ‘crawling’ with the support of several...