WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is welcome in the United States. The Obama administration extended the most explicit invitation to India’s prime minister-to-be on Friday, indicating that the visa flap that had dogged ties with him is a thing of the past. White House officials said President Obama himself will reach out to him with […]
New Delhi, May 16 The BJP was Friday set for a comfortable majority in the Lok Sabha, its candidates taking early leads in 265 of the 498 seats in two hours of vote count across the country. The Congress, India’s oldest political party which had ruled India for a decade since 2004 at the head […]
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 […]
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and party vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday took responsibility for the party’s worst drubbing in the national election, but did not give credit to Narendra Modi for the BJP victory. Making a short statement to the media – without entertaining any questions – at […]
Agra, May 16 (IANS) In the tidal tsunami generated by the Modi wave, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates Friday trounced their rivals in Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Mathura, Hathras and Aligarh by decisive margins. Only Firozabad saw Samajwadi Party candidate Akshay Yadav emerging victorious, defeating last-minute defector to the BJP fold, S.P. Singh Baghel. In Agra, […]
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 […]
Kiev, May 16 (IANS) Dynamo Kiev beat Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 to win the Ukrainian Cup for the first time in seven years. Dynamo took control of the match Thursday night from the very beginning and scored the first goal in the 40th minute after an own goal from Shakhtar defender, Alexandr Kucher, reports Xinhua. Only three […]
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 […]