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Split voting to vault BJP's Lok Sabha score, but Patnaik holds fort

Riding on the split voting phenomenon, the BJP is seemingly narrowing the gap with the redoubtable BJD, which had whitewashed Opposition in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, bagging 20 of the 21 seats

Lok Sabha elections: Maharashtra voters print a photocopy of 2014

The biggest surprise in the state was the defeat of Ashok Chavan, president of the Congress state unit

Tejasvi Surya to Hibi Eden: Young stars who made their mark with huge wins

In West Bengal, Trinamool Congress's Mimi Chakraborty, an actor, registered a big victory from the Jadavpur seat with 688,000 votes against BJP's Anupam Hazra

Twitter sees record election-related activity with 396 million tweets

Between 11 April and 19 May, national security emerged as the most talked about election-related topic on Twitter

Story in numbers: Modi fares better than Manmohan in controlling inflation

Exports in the last year of the NDA government rose just 5.3 per cent compared to the terminal year of UPA-2

Sweets & slogans: Historic mandate sparks jubilation at BJP headquarters

It was clear that the promises made during campaigning, and the core issues on which the party's campaign was built, was still resonating with the supporters

Chanakya Niti: How Amit Shah delivered Narendra Modi a second Lok Sabha win

Amit Shah has kept BJP's poll machinery well oiled. He may now be rewarded with a Cabinet post

Smriti Irani to Rajnath Singh: Modi ministers score big victories

Several union ministers gained from the Narendra Modi wave to win Lok Sabha elections on Thursday, leaving out Hardeep Puri and KJ Alphons.

BJP holds against mahagathbandhan in UP; Rahul loses Amethi to Smriti Irani

The critical takeaway is the indication of a tactical shift in the voting pattern, away from caste, community considerations

40-minute winning speech: PM Narendra Modi talks about unity, humility

'People are chanting Modi, Modi. But this is not a victory of Modi, it is the victory of people who are desperate for honesty in the system,' Modi said

How two steps East, two steps South helped BJP cross the 300 mark

Modi garners nearly 37% votes nationally, courtesy massive gains in West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, and Telangana

NDA has no need for 'kingmakers': TRS, BJD, YSR Cong lose bargaining chip

The BJP has now emerged as the principal opposition in Telangana

Top bureaucracy set for major reshuffle as Modi returns with bigger mandate

Talk of a new national security advisor at the Prime Minister's Office is also gaining momentum

New govt should provide fiscal stimulus, with the very first budget

The new government however does come with a long new term, a mandate to get growth back up

Jagan in control as Naidu routed; KCR on top, but TRS loses sheen

YSRC chief says his priority would be to secure special status for Andhra

Markets end lower despite Modi sweep, Sensex sheds 1,300 pts from 40k mark

Profit-taking emerged at higher levels amid weak global cues as investors had largely priced-in NDA victory after the exit polls, said experts

Change of guard: #Chowkidaar prefix to make way for new campaign

After Modi dropped the prefix, about 32% people had dropped it too, including Piyush Goyal, Arun Jaitley, and Smriti Irani

Narendra Modi has turned conventional wisdom on its head and reshaped India

No other political chieftains are holding the balance of power; only Modi matters

Number of Muslim lawmakers in Lok Sabha to increase marginally, trends show

Farooq Abdullah from Kashmir and Assauddin Owaisi from Hyderabad will be among prominent Muslim MPs in Lok Sabha.

Ravi Prasad tastes his first success, defeats Shatrughan in Patna Sahib

Prasad garnered 6.07 lakh votes while Sinha, a former Bollywood star who joined Congress earlier this year, managed only 3.22 lakh votes