Page 10 - Lok Sabha Elections 2019

Ideology of Mahatma Gandhi's killer has won India: Congress' Digvijay Singh

The BJP won 303 seats in the just-concluded general election

Clash of titans in Odisha's big election fights turns up mixed results

Naveen, Achyuta Samanta, Aparajita win while Jay Panda, Sambit Patra end up losers

After a spectacular victory, Naveen Patnaik gears up for new innings

Patnaik is only the third chief minister in the country after Jyoti Basu and Sikkim's incumbent Pawan Kumar Chamling to retain power for the fifth successive term

Investor wealth rises Rs 2.53 lakh crore as markets surge after BJP victory

The BSE benchmark closed at 39,434.72, up 623.33 points or 1.61 per cent. During the day, it jumped 665.58 points to 39,476.97.

PM Narendra Modi likely to be sworn in for second term on May 30

Before his swearing-in, Modi is likely to visit Varanasi to thank the people of the parliamentary constituency from where he has been elected for the second time

The Chessboard - Ep 8: When Narendra Modi changed Indian politics forever

Aditi Phadnis and Archis Mohan discuss the mandate with host Ankur Bhardwaj

Cong's Amethi unit chief resigns after Rahul loses in family bastion

The Congress suffered a major embarrassment with Rahul Gandhi losing from the party's stronghold here to BJP's Smriti Irani by 55,120 votes

LS Polls 2019: NDA MPs to meet on Saturday to elect Modi as their leader

The meeting will take place in Parliament's Central Hall on Saturday during which the MPs will formally elect Modi as the leader

UP elects 6 Muslim Lok Sabha MPs compared to nil in 2014 polls

SP Muslim candidates, who tasted electoral success, included Mohd Azam Khan (Rampur), S T Hasan (Moradabad) and Shafiqur Rehman Barq (Sambhal)

Victory margins for BJP in 24 LS seats of Gujarat grew in 2019 from 2014

Only in Dahod and Porbandar parliamentary seats, the margin of victory of the BJP candidates went down when compared to 2014

LS Polls: BJP's decision to replace 6 sitting MPs pays off handsomely

All of the replacement candidates won by comfortable margins as the calculated risk seemed to have paid off

Indian-Americans rejoice BJP's massive lok sabha election victory

President of The American India Public Affairs Committee Jagdish Sewhani said that the re-election of the Indian leader with a strong mandate is a reflection of the emergence of 'New India'.

Gowda's grandson offers his Hassan LS seat after ex-PM loses in Tumkur

JD(S) had contested seven seats and everyone but Prajwal was swept away by the Modi wave Thursday.

Saffron surge in WB forces Mamta to call emergency meeting of TMC leaders

BJP bagged a massive 40.25 per cent in the state of West Bengal winning 18 seats.

Union Cabinet to meet on Friday to pass resolution on the 16th Lok Sabha

The 17th Lok Sabha has to be constituted by June 3 after which the process to form a new house will be initiated

Pragya Singh Thakur, Azam Khan, Giriraj Singh set to enter parliament

Pragya Singh Thakur, a terror accused, won by over 300,000 votes from Bhopal defeating Congress candidate Digvijay Singh. Azam Khan made sexist remarks against Jaya Prada who was fighting against him.

LS polls 2019: 45,000 Delhi voters opt for NOTA, up by 6,200 from 2014

North West Delhi saw the highest number of votes for NOTA with over 10,000 voters opting for it

Pak media calls Modi's victory emphatic, highlights threat to minorities

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was re-elected for a second term with BJP alone winning 300 seats.

No jobs, economic slowdown: Modi govt has its tasks cut out

After a landslide victory at the general election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces immediate challenge of arresting a slowdown in the world's sixth largest economy, creating jobs, stimulating private investment and tackling bad loan woes of banks, economists have said. BJP has won more than 300 seats in the latest polls, bettering its performance in 2014. But the victory has come amid agrarian distress, youth unemployment, anemic growth and troubles in the financial system. Economists said the new government should ease land acquisition rules for companies, initiate labour reforms, address the funding crisis in shadow lending sector and fix mounting bad loan problem in the banking system. Other challenges on the economic front before the new government would be to contain current account deficit (CAD), and take steps to improve the quality of manpower to make them employable. S&P Global Ratings Chief Economist Asia-Pacific Shaun Roache said the immediate challenge is to unlock .

'Great things in store for ties', says US while congratulating Modi for win

US president Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo congratulated Modi, while others remarked with marvel at the scale of the Indian elections