Kanpur, May 16 (IANS) Veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has won from the Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency defeating coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal. Joshi defeated Jaiswal, who was a three-time Congress MP from here, by 2,22,946 votes. In 2009, Joshi had won from Varanasi, from where Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi fought this […]
Hyderabad, May 16 (IANS) The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) will form governments in the newly-created states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh respectively as the two parties crushed the Congress to get majority on their own. They also bagged majority of the Lok Sabha seats in the two Telugu-speaking states. In […]
Patna, May 16 (IANS) Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan and his son Chirag Paswan have won from the Hajipur and Jamui Lok Sabha seats, respectively, in Bihar. Ram Vilas Paswan defeated Congress candidate Sanjeev Prasad Toni by over one lakh votes in Hajipur. Actor-turned-politician Chirag defeated Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate Sudhansu Shekhar Bhaskar by […]
Dharamsala, May 16 (IANS) The Tibetan administration-in-exile Friday congratulated BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for his party’s landslide victory in the Lok Sabha elections. “I take this opportunity to thank the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for their unwavering support for the Tibetan people during its two full terms. I also congratulate the incoming National […]
Mumbai, May 16 (IANS) Actor Rakhi Sawant Friday stood at sixth position in her debut Lok Sabha election that she fought from Mumbai north-west parliamentary constituency. Sawant, who had formed her own party Rashtriya Aam Party (RAP), managed to secure 1,995 votes. She was contesting against Gajanan Chandrakant Kirtikar of Shiv Sena, Kamat Gurudas Vasant of […]
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Delhi experienced a pleasant Friday with the maximum temperature recorded at 36.7 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season’s average. The Met Department has forecast a clear and sunny Saturday. “The sky will remain clear and the day will be warm,” said an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The […]
Puducherry, May 16 (IANS) Union minister V. Narayanasamy of the Congress Friday trailed by 5,200 votes in the lone Lok Sabha seat from the Puducherry Union Territory, officials said. Narayanasamy’s nearest rival is R. Radhakrishnan of the All India NR Congress party. He had earlier established lead over R.Radhakrishnan.
Patna, May 16 (IANS) The sprawling bungalow of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the office of the ruling JD-U, which are usually bustling with people, wore a deserted look Friday as the party was pushed to the fourth place in the Lok Sabha polls in the state. “It is telling a story that the BJP’s […]
Bhubaneswar, May 16 (IANS) Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Friday appeared set for a landslide win in both the assembly and Lok Sabha polls. The party candidates are leading in 18 of the 21 Lok Sabha and 100 of the 147 assembly constituencies in the state, officials said. Naveen Patnaik, who is set for fourth […]
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court (SC) Friday allowed the Indian Navy to move out the decommissioned INS Vikrant – country’s first aircraft carrier – from Mumbai naval dockyard to Darukhana ship breaking yard. The apex court bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice A.K. Sikri allowed shifting of the 70-year-old aircraft carrier after […]