New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) 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) Congress leader Satyavrat Chaturvedi Friday said the party accepted the mandate of the people and its defeat in the general elections. “We accept the mandate of the people and welcome it and accept our defeat,” Chaturvedi told reporters here. Chaturvedi, a Rajya Sabha member, said the party will introspect and see […]
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Dancing on drumbeats, chanting slogans, bursting firecrackers and distributing laddus, hundreds of BJP workers gathered at the party headquarters here Friday morning to celebrate the predicted landslide victory in the Lok Sabha polls. Armed with portrait photos of the party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and wearing the party’s saffron caps, […]
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Mumbai might be known as the city where dreams are given life but, according to a recent survey conducted with foreign women, Delhi men are more romantic than their Mumbai counterparts. Conducted by deodorant brand AXE, the survey’s results are based on the opinion of foreign women. When asked to rate […]
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) The BJP Friday took early leads in all the seven Lok Sabha seats of the national capital, with the AAP at the second position and Congress trailing at a poor third. According to officials, two-time winning candidate and union minister Kapil Sibal was trailing at the third position from the Chandni […]
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) The BJP took a big lead as millions of votes polled in the Lok Sabha election were counted Friday, with its candidates racing ahead of all others in 71 of the 122 seats. As an army of officials began the mammoth counting process in 989 places across the country, it was […]
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) A post-election survey released Tuesday said the BJP was set to win a record 253 seats in the Lok Sabha and the Congress just 66, its lowest ever tally. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will win in all 303 seats, according to the LensOnNews survey conducted after each polling day […]
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Tuesday issued notice to BSP parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh, accused for torturing his maid, on the plea of police seeking cancellation of his bail. Justice Sunita Gupta sought a response from Singh by May 21. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP was granted interim bail by trial court […]
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday declined to entertain the plea by advocate seeking to put on hold the declaration of Varanasi Lok Sabha seat’s result as BJP candidate and prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi was not a resident of the constituency and was contesting from another place too. A bench of Justice […]
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was given a standing ovation by his staff during a farewell hosted for him Tuesday, his last working day at his South Block office, when the cabinet also met and cleared the elevation of the Indian Army vice chief, Lt. Gen. Dalbir Singh Suhag, as the new […]