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A case has been registered against 10 employees of a carpet manufacturing company in Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi district for allegedly assaulting a businesswoman from Russia, police officials said on Wednesday. Superintendent of police Meenakshi Katyayan said Anna Steor (30), a resident of...
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The maximum temperature in most parts of Rajasthan was recorded above 40 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season's normal, and Dholpur was hottest at 45.4 degrees Celsius, the local weather office said on Wednesday. According to the Met Centre Jaipur, heatwave was recorded at some...
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A police team led by an official from Pune on Wednesday visited the family of two software engineers tragically killed in a Porsche car accident in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur and Umaria. The team, headed by additional commissioner of police Manoj Patil, assured the families of Anish Awadhiya...
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Stalin meets N Chandrababu Naidu at New Delhi airport/ANI Photo
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday expressed confidence that TDP supremo and key NDA leader N Chandrababu Naidu will play a 'crucial' role in the Union government, advocating for southern states' rights. Stalin met Naidu at the New Delhi airport. Met Thiru @ncbn garu, a...
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Superstar Rajinikanth
Superstar Rajinikanth on Wednesday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin and N Chandrababu Naidu for the success of their respective parties--BJP, DMK and TDP in the just concluded Lok Sabha polls. My Hearty Congratulations to my dear friends.....
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India celebrated World Environment Day with the addition of the Nagi Bird Sanctuary and the Nakti Bird Sanctuary in Bihar to the global list of important wetlands. These newly designated Ramsar sites are man-made reservoirs located in the Jhajha forest range of Jamui district in...
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President Droupadi Murmu hosted a dinner on Wednesday for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the outgoing council of ministers at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The event was also attended by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. President Droupadi Murmu hosted a dinner...
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Nine trekkers from Karnataka lost their lives in Uttarakhand due to extreme weather conditions, officials said on Wednesday. A 22-member trekking team was sent by Himalayan View Trekking Agency, Maneri, on May 29 on a 35-km long trek from Uttarkashi. The team constituted 18 trekkers...
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Newly elected BJP MP Rupkumari Chaudhary/Courtesy Facebook
In recently-concluded Lok Sabha elections, three women from Chhattisgarh emerged victorious, echoing the gender representation observed in the previous polls. The ruling BJP won 10 out of 11 parliamentary seats, while the Congress clinched only one seat, marking a slight decline from its...
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Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams/@Commercial_Crew/X
Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams flew to space for the third time on Wednesday along with a colleague, scripting history as the first members aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station. Boeing's Crew Flight Test mission carrying Williams, and Butch Wilmore...
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Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee president Vikar Rasool Wani on Wednesday said the third term of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government will be short-lived as dictators do not take everyone along'. He reiterated his party's demand for immediate...
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The number of sunstroke-related deaths rose to 36 in Odisha this summer, with two more confirmed cases, an official statement said on Wednesday. A total of 151 cases of sunstroke-related deaths were reported till Wednesday, of which 36 have been confirmed due to heat-related illness, while...
20:07
China on Wednesday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Natinoal Democratic Alliance in the general elections and said both countries should 'look to the future' to advance bilateral relations, frozen since the Galwan incident four years ago,...
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The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) would welcome all parties that share a fundamental commitment to the values enshrined in the Preamble of Constitution, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said on Wednesday at the first meeting of the opposition grouping after its...
19:04
Leaders of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance unanimously elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the ruling bloc's leader on Wednesday, passing a resolution to underscore the government's commitment to serving the poor, women, youths, farmers and deprived sections of society. They...
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Veteran journalist Babu Rajendra Prasad Bhaskar passed away in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday. He was 92. After beginning his journalistic career in his father's newspaper Navabhratham, Bhaskar joined The Hindu newspaper in 1952. He went on to work with various publications like The...
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Senior leaders of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance deliberated on the details of government formation at a meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday, a day after the ruling coalition won a majority in the Lok Sabha election which paved the way for a third term for Prime Minister Narendra...
17:54
Giorgia Meloni shared this image with Modi on X
Several world leaders, including Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, have congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the victory of the BJP-led NDA coalition in the general elections and expressed their...
17:51
Supriya Shinate, who heads the Congress party's digital media and social media platforms, shares this picture of Amethi winner LK Sharma with Rahul Gandhi, writing, Dil jeet liya.The newly-elected Amethi MP on Wednesday said the constituency for him was like an amanat of the Gandhi family and he...
17:40
Narendra Modi gives his resignation to President Murmu
President Droupadi Murmu orders dissolving of 17th Lok Sabha: Rashtrapati Bhavan says. The Cabinet, in its today's meeting, has advised the President to dissolve the 17th Lok Sabha with immediate effect. The President has accepted the advice of the Cabinet and signed the order dissolving the...
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The Maha CM campaigns for Thane candidate Naresh Mhaske. File pic
Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde's statement on Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis' proposal to relieve him from the state government says, Electoral defeat is a collective responsibility. All three parties had worked together in the elections. If you look at the vote share, Mahayuti got more than two lakh...
17:23
Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut has become only the fourth woman ever to be elected to Lok Sabha from Himachal Pradesh, and the first woman who is not from an erstwhile royal family. BJP's Kangana defeated her Congress rival Vikramaditya Singh, scion of Rampur state and the incumbent...
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A forensic laboratory report has confirmed that blood samples of the mother were used to replace those of the 17-year-old driver involved in the Porsche crash which claimed two lives in Pune, police told a court on Wednesday. The sessions court extended the police custody of the teen's...
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Former Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot shares this picture writing, Today, the newly elected MP from Tonk Sawai Madhopur Mr. Harish Meena and the newly elected MP from Bharatpur Mrs. Sanjana Jatav met me at the residence. Hearty congratulations to both the MPs on their victory and best wishes for the...
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Congress' newly-elected Amethi MP Kishori Lal Sharma on Wednesday said the constituency for him was like an amanat of the Gandhi family and he would ensure there is no amanat mein khayanat (breach of trust).Sharma, who emerged as a giant slayer by defeating sitting BJP MP and Union minister...
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Congress Kerala@INCKerala shares this image of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav in conversation with TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu. The witty post says, Don't panic Modiji, it's an old pic.This comes amid buzz that the India alliance will be speaking to the TDP and JDU to cobble up numbers. The TDP is with...
16:22
Veteran politician Sharad Pawar has managed to retain the support of NCP workers at the grassroots, with the NCP (SP) led by him winning 8 out of the 10 Lok Sabha seats it contested in Maharashtra, achieving an impressive strike rate of 80 per cent. In contrast, the Nationalist Congress...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said he would request BJP top leadership to relieve him from the government duties so that he could focus on state assembly polls, a statement coming a day after the BJP suffered a drubbing in Lok Sabha polls in the...
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Kamal Nath's son and Chhindwara candidate lost
The vote share of the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh went down by more than two per cent while that of the BJP increased marginally by over one per cent as compared to the figures in the previous parliamentary elections, a top official said on Wednesday. In the results...
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Rouse Avenue Court extends the judicial custody of Delhi CM and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal till June 19. He was produced virtually before the court today.
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Former Bihar CM and Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) founder Jitan Ram Manjhi arrives in Delhi for the NDA meeting.
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Amritpal Singh
Two candidates currently lodged in prison on terror charges emerged winners in the just-concluded parliamentary election, giving rise to an unusual situation for the 18th Lok Sabha to be formed in the coming days. While the law will keep them from attending the proceedings of the new House,...
15:32
TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu arrives at the residence of former TDP MP Jayadev Galla in Delhi. He is in Delhi to attend the NDA meeting.
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Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde who is in Delhi on government formation: The majority that we need is completed. NDA govt will be formed under the leadership of PM Modi. I am here to support and greet him. Those people who don't have the majority, are talking about forming govt, this is just a...
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Prime Minister, Narendra Modi called on Vice-President, Jagdeep Dhankhar at the Vice-President's Enclave today.
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Amid suspense over whether the TDP and JD(U) will join the opposition alliance, Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday asked people to wait and watch. Yadav, who travelled to Delhi from Patna in the same flight as Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar did, fuelling...
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Uddhav supporters celebrate the party's winnings at the polls
The Lok Sabha election results have shown that the Bharatiya Janata Party can be defeated, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said on Wednesday as he met his party candidates who won the polls. Shiv Sena (UBT) winners Rajabhau Prakash Waje (from Nashik seat) and Sanjay Dina Patil...
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Caretaker PM Narendra Modi with President Murmu
The Union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday recommended the dissolution of the 17th Lok Sabha, sources said. Following the meeting at his residence, a day after the general election results, Modi will now be making a formal recommendation to President...
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June 4 will go down as the day democracy came back from the dead in India, the day the almighty Bhartiya Janta Party failed to get even a simple majority in what former Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has called the 'hottest and most hateful' Lok Sabha elections, ever. Most of all, it...
14:33
Narendra Modi resigns as PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets President Droupadi Murmu, tenders his resignation along with Council of Ministers. President Murmu accepts PM Modi's resignation, requests him to continue till new government assumes office.
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Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut will attend the opposition INDIA alliance meeting to be held in New Delhi on Wednesday evening to deliberate on the Lok Sabha poll results, party sources said. Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said he will also travel to Delhi to attend the INDIA...
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Congress party's newly-elected MP from Amethi, Kishori Lal Sharma shows his winning certificate as he meets Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and MP Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi. Rahul Gandhi (winner Wayanad and Rae Bareli) and KL...
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Priyanka tweeted this image from @Malicartoonist
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra shares this image alongside and writes on X: You kept standing, no matter what they said and did to you. You never backed down whatever the odds, never stopped believing however much they doubted your conviction, you never stopped fighting for the truth despite the...
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Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav on board a flight
NCP(SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said there has been no discussion within the INDIA bloc yet on reaching out to the TDP or JD(U) to shore up the numbers of the alliance for government formation. His remarks came ahead of the meeting of INDIA bloc leaders at Congress president...
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The viral photo of Bihar CM and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar (window seat) and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav travelling to Delhi on the same flight. Both of them were travelling to Delhi for NDA meeting and INDIA bloc meeting respectively.
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The formation of the NDA government and the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi likely to take place on June 8. Modi on Tuesday pledged to work with all states, regardless of the party in power, to build a developed India.
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Mallikarjun Kharge and Sonia Gandhi at the Congress presser yesterday
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said on Wednesday that a meeting of the Indian National Development Inclusive Alliance bloc meeting will be held this evening in the national capital.The INDIA Janbandhan leaders will be meeting today at 6 PM at 10, Rajaji Marg to discuss the election results...
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SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said the success of the INDIA bloc in Uttar Pradesh is the victory of the backward classes, Dalits and minorities, and attributed it to the PDA strategy and efforts put in by the alliance. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, who fought the...
12:46
Having picked up different views from the people during the Bharat Jodo Yatra and the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, Rahul and his team were instrumental in crafting the Congress manifesto, which focused on social justice as an alternative to the BJP's Hindutva agenda.Read the column here.
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Smriti Irani hugs an emotional BJP worker as she trailed and then lost Amethi
Smriti Irani on losing Amethi to Congress's KL Sharma: Such is life... A decade of my life going from one village to another, building lives, nurturing hope & aspirations, working on infrastructure ' roads, naali, khadanja, bypass, medical college and more. To those who stood by me through...
12:36
Sanjay Raut, the Shiv Sena leader from Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray faction, in a press conference, praised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and conveyed the party's thoughts on the prospects of Rahul Gandhi's Prime Ministership.Meanwhile, he also slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah for...
12:23
Narendra Modi won the Varanasi seat for the third consecutive term by defeating Congress candidate Ajay Rai. The victory margin of Modi this time is 1,52,513, which is less than his victory margins of 2019 and 2014.
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Outgoing Odisha CM and BJD chief Naveen Patnaik met Governor Raghubar Das at Raj Bhavan in Bhubaneswar today. BJD lost the Odisha Assembly elections, winning just 51 of the total 147 seats in the state.
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With NDA and INDIA bloc scheduling separate meetings of alliance partners in Delhi on Wednesday, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his arch rival RJD's Tejashwi Yadav left for the national capital on the same flight from Patna airport, sources said. Kumar, whose NDA-allied JD (U)...
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TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday said his party was in NDA and that he will be attending the National Democratic Alliance meeting to be held in New Delhi later in the day. NDA constituent Janasena party's chief Pawan Kalyan will also be attending the NDA meeting at the...
11:44
Narendra Modi's BJP stopped the 20-year run of the BJD
Odisha CM and BJD chief Naveen Patnaik arrives at the Raj Bhavan in Bhubaneswar. BJD lost the Odisha Assembly elections, winning just 51 of the total 147 seats in the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the people of Odisha after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) registered a...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party has won 14 seats in Rajasthan in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections while the Congress has secured a win on eight seats in the state. The BJP, which secured the majority in Rajasthan, getting 24 seats in the 2019 elections, has come down to 14. Congress posed a...
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Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan on Wednesday morning met Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar here ahead of the crucial NDA meeting scheduled in Delhi later in the day. Chirag, whose party won all the five constituencies allotted to it as part of the NDA seat-sharing...
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The Gandhis with Mallikarjun Kharge last evening
The Indian National Congress surprised everyone by winning 99 seats, a milestone which no exit polls or pollster predicted.In 2014 the Congress won 44 seats. In 2019, the party won 55 seats.In 2024, the Congress won 44 more Lok Sabha seats than its 2019 tally.The Congress won 21.19 percent votes...
10:56
The Pune police have moved an application before the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) seeking extension for 14 days the remand of a 17-year-old boy allegedly involved in a car crash which claimed two lives, an official said on Wednesday. The remand of the juvenile, who is lodged at an...
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Sharad Pawar holds a meeting of the party's parliamentary board. File pic
Despite suffering a politically debilitating split in the NCP last year, veteran leader Sharad Pawar led from the front in the Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra, where his party won eight of the 10 seats it contested, cementing his position as the tallest politician in the state. The...
10:48
Chandrababu Naidu celebrates victory with family
TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu thanked the people for the overwhelming mandate given to NDA in Andhra Pradesh. In a social media post on Tuesday night, Naidu also thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior BJP leaders Amit Shah and JP Nadda for their commitment to Andhra Pradesh's...
10:38
10 biggest single-day falls
Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty began the trade on an optimistic note on Wednesday after facing heavy drubbing in the previous trade as value-buying at lower levels led to an uptrend in the markets. Making a strong comeback after Tuesday's sharp decline, the 30-share BSE Sensex...
10:21
The jolt to the BJP's politics is so severe that if and when the NDA government is formed, Modi will have to reset his image before he could resurrect the BJP, writes Sheela Bhatt. Read the column here.
10:14
The Election Commission has declared results for all 543 Lok Sabha constituencies, with the BJP winning 240 seats and the Congress 99. The last result to be announced was that of the Beed constituency in Maharashtra, where NCP (Sharad Pawar) candidate Bajrang Manohar Sonwane defeated the BJP's...
10:09
Senior leaders of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) are likely to meet on Wednesday to take stock of the Lok Sabha poll results and deliberate on the details of government formation. JD(U) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Telugu Desam Party president N...
09:46
South Delhi candidate Rajan Singh
All three transgender candidates who contested the Lok Sabha elections have lost their security deposits, highlighting the challenges faced by the community in gaining political representation in the country. India is yet to see a transgender person elected to the Lok Sabha. All...
09:27
India's economic fundamentals remain robust, investment bank Nomura said on Wednesday after the results of the country's general elections paved the way for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's third consecutive term in office.Modi is poised to form the government for a third consecutive term with the...
08:46
The Election Commission of India has declared results for all Lok Sabha constituencies, with the BJP winning 240 of the 543 seats and the Congress 99. The last result to be announced was that of Beed constituency in Maharashtra, where NCP (Sharad Pawar) candidate Bajrang Manohar Sonwane...
02:41
Two candidates with rape cases registered against them have won the Lok Sabha elections, the results of which were declared on Tuesday. BJP candidates Saumitra Khan and Madhavaneni Raghunandan Rao have cases registered against them under Section 376 (punishment for rape) of the Indian Penal...
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The BJP on Tuesday swept all the five Lok Sabha seats in Uttarakhand for a third straight time thwarting yet another attempt by archrival Congress to make a comeback. This is the fifth consecutive election in which the party routed its principal rival Congress to reassert its political...
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Congress candidate Manish Tewari
Congress candidate Manish Tewari defeated the BJP's Sanjay Tandon to secure victory from Chandigarh's lone Lok Sabha seat. Tewari, a former Union minister, won by a slender margin of 2,504, according to data on the Election Commission website. The senior Congress leader said his win was...
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The vote share of the Bahujan Samaj Party, which trailed third on all seven seats behind the BJP and Congress-AAP alliance, continued to witness a decline for the third consecutive term as it gasped at a mere .70 percentage of the total vote share.The Mayawati-led BSP witnessed a vote share of...
01:10
The US on Tuesday praised India's parliamentary elections as the largest exercise of democracy in history, while refraining from commenting on the outcomes of the polls. State department spokesperson Matthew Miller commended the Indian government and its voters for successfully completing...
00:50
Sitting MP Jugal Kishore Sharma retained his seat and secured a third consecutive victory in the Jammu Lok Sabha seat. He attributed his success to people and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sharma, who has been an MP since 2014, received 6,87,588 votes, defeating his closest competitor...
00:41
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance on Tuesday got a simple majority in the Lok Sabha elections by winning 273 seats. While results for 498 seats were declared by the Election Commission, counting on 45 seats was still on. According to the tally on the EC...
00:32
RJD's Misa Bharti
Rajya Sabha MP Misa Bharti, RJD candidate and elder daughter of party supremo Lalu Prasad, won the Patliputra Lok Sabha seat, defeating her nearest BJP rival Ram Kripal Yadav by a margin of over 85,000 votes. However, Rohini Acharya, Lalu's other daughter who was an RJD nominee from Saran...
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The Union Cabinet will meet on Wednesday morning to take stock of the Lok Sabha election results and may recommend the dissolution of the current Lok Sabha. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the meeting, which will begin at 11.30 am, a day after the general election results were...
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