Mumbai : The rupee appreciated by 21 paise to 69.81 against the US dollar in opening trade Friday following the BJP’s thumping victory in the Lok Sabha polls. Strong FIIs inflows and higher domestic equity markets also buoyed sentiments for the rupee, forex dealers said. However, rising crude prices […]
Shimla : Over 33,000 none of the above (NOTA) votes were polled in Himachal Pradesh, where the ruling BJP swept the Lok Sabha elections winning all four seats in the state. The saffron party won Mandi, Shimla, Hamirpur and Kangra with record margins. As many as 33,008 voters chose […]
Srinagar : Zakir Musa, the so-called chief of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, a group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, was killed in an encounter with security forces in a village in South Kashmir’s Tral, officials confirmed Friday. A defence spokesman said one militant was killed in the operation at Dadsara in Tral area […]
Mumbai : It was a bittersweet election for four Union ministers from Maharashtra as two, including senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari, won while the other two lost the Lok Sabha poll. Gadkari comfortably won the Nagpur Lok Sabha seat by a margin of 2,16,009 votes. A former BJP […]
Puducherry ; Senior Congress leader and former Assembly Speaker V Vaithilingam emerged victorious in the election to lone Lok Sabha seat in Puducherry. Vaithilingam polled 4,44,981 votes while his nearest rival K Narayanasamy of AINRC, a doctor-turned-politician garnered 2,47,956 votes. Vaithilingam, a former chief minister of the union territory, […]
Guwahati : The BJP has surpassed its 2014 tally in Assam, securing nine of the 14 Lok Sabha seats, even as its allies, the AGP and the BPF, drew a blank in the state. The Congress has been able to bag three parliamentary constituencies and the AIUDF and an […]
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 the state could […]
New Delhi : Four new judges of the Supreme Court were on Friday administered the oath of office by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. With the swearing in of four judges, the number of judges in the Supreme Court stands at 31, the full sanctioned strength of the […]
Gandhinagar : BJP president Amit Shah was Thursday night declared elected from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat by a margin of 5.57 lakh votes against his nearest Congress rival C J Chavda. Shah polled 8.94 lakh votes, while Chavda secured 3.37 lakh votes. Amit Shah has been declared elected, returning […]
Chandigarh, May 23: Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Thursday said he would approach the Congress high command over his cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu’s remarks on the sacrilege issue during electioneering. A day before polling, Sidhu had raised questions on the probe into the desecration of religious texts in 2015. […]
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