Bihar's ruling NDA took rapid strides mopping up 12 of the 13 seats, results of which were declared so far, and was ahead in 21 others as the Fourth Front suffered major reverses.

Paswan loses as NDA takes rapid strides in Bihar

Press Trust of India

The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet tomorrow afternoon to thank the voters of the country for the resounding victory of the party in the elections.

CWC to meet tomorrow to thank voters

Tamil Nadu and Andhra once again lived up to their reputation of playing a decisive role in the formation of government at the Centre with both the states contributing more than 65 seats to kitty of Congress-led UPA which will retain power.

TN, Andhra to provide 65 seats to UPA

The state Congress after securing ten out of the 26 Lok Sabha seats today said that Gujarat Chief Ministers Narendra Modi's 'black' magic failed to work in favour of the NDA.

Modi's 'black' magic failed to work in favour of NDA: Cong

BJP in Gujarat, led by Chief Minister Narendra Modi, which was expecting to win around 20 out of 26 Lok Sabha seats in the state, has suffered by winning only 15 seats, while Congress has suprisingly fared better and won 10 seats.

BJP's poor show in Guj raises doubts over Modi's popularity

Thanks to a clean sweep of Mumbai and substantial gains in Vidarbha, the Congress-NCP slate was able to check an anti-incumbency mood after nine years in power abd win 25 of the 48 seats in Maharashtra.

Vote split, Vidarbha packages help Cong

Business Standard

It was a shocker for both the BJP and the Congress in Gujarat. While the BJP, despite its star candidates, including prime ministerial candidate LK Advani and Chief Minister Narendra Modi, could not get anywhere close to its target of 20 seats, the Congress saw Union Textile Minister Shankersinh Vaghela and Minister of State for Railways, Naranbhai Rathwa, being defeated.

Gujarat shocks both Cong, BJP

Manmohan Singh ready for second term; Advani quits; Mulayam out in the cold.

More Congress, less UPA

As the results started pouring, the mood in business circles turned euphoric. India Inc&rsquo;s CEOs and leading market players ran out of adjectives to describe their collective sense of relief after the United Progressive Alliance managed a decisive majority in the Lok Sabha elections.

Result is a game-changer: India Inc, market players

The new Congress-led government is expected to announce a fresh economic stimulus during its first 100 days to pull the economy out of its present slowdown. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said during the election campaign that his government would come out with a stimulus within 100 days. He had added that he was in talks with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for an effective programme.

Fresh stimulus expected in 100 days

Millions of internet users from India and around the world were a disappointed lot since they could not access the election results in real time on the Election Commission&rsquo;s website.

Huge traffic forces EC site to crawl

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani today took full responsibility for his party&rsquo;s defeat in the general elections and said he would not hold the post of leader of opposition in the 15th Lok Sabha.

Advani takes blame, offers to quit as leader of oppn

The Left was forced to eat humble pie following an astounding victory of the Trinamool Congress and Congress alliance in West Bengal and of the Congress-led UDF in Kerala.

Left forced into introspection

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), with its tally of barely 20 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, almost entirely from just Uttar Pradesh, seemed to be reeling under an anti-incumbency wave on the home turf, while their dream of expanding to other states remained stillborn.

BSP sees open criticism on Mayawati's functioning

Chandrababu Naidu: His manifesto was creative, the schemes were unique and yet his Telugu Desam Party (TDP) was unable to dislodge the Congress from Andhra Pradesh. What happened? Naidu was one of the few politicians who concentrated on his political manifesto, fine-tuned it with the Left parties with whom he had an alliance and did a U-turn on the TDP&rsquo;s opposition to the creation of Telangana, conceding that the demand for smaller states was a legitimate one.

Slips in Telangana, Left ties don't help either

Muthuvel Karunanidhi: In 2004, with a formidable alliance, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) swept Tamil Nadu by winning all 39 seats and became the reason for the defeat of the National Democratic Alliance at the Centre.

Holding on to earlier success

Ramvilas Paswan: He was thought to be a kingmaker, a pivot of the fourth front, created to increase the bargaining power of three satraps &mdash; Ramvilas Paswan and Lalu Prasad from Bihar and Mulayam Singh Yadav from UP. But Paswan lost his Hajipur constituency to Ramsundar Das, the Janata Dal (U) nominee, as the JD(U)-BJP combine swept Bihar.

A kingmaker who turned out to be loser

After storming to power in Rajasthan five months ago, the Congress maintained its winning streak bagging 19 Lok Sabha seats in the state today, inflicting a crushing blow on its arch-foe BJP.

BJP routed in Rajasthan, Congress bags 19 seats

Sources in the Trinamool Congress (TC) partly attribute the success to the TC chief Mamata Banerjee&rsquo;s slogan (see box), as she captured the spirit of a massive resentment in the countryside against acquisition of land by the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government and police excesses.

Trinamool-Congress storms Left's citadel

Andhra Pradesh once again emerged as the biggest contributor to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) tally with the ruling Congress set to bag over 30 of the 42 Parliamentary seats, including trends.

Development focus does it for YSR in Andhra

The ruling Congress has retained power in Andhra Pradesh by bagging over 155 seats in the 294-member state assembly.

In AP, welfare schemes, split in oppn vote help Congress

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