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BJP gets a solid foothold in Odisha but Naveen Patnaik retains state

New Delhi: Without breaking from tradition, Odisha has once again voted for the same party in the assembly as well as the Lok Sabha...

Narendra Modi likely to take oath as PM on 28 May

Modi's 2014 swearing-in ceremony was a grand affair, attended by representatives of all SAARC nations as well as celebrities from the cinema world.

Hoodas’ impending defeat in Jat-dominated Sonepat & Rohtak spells doom for Congress

Former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda has lost by nearly 2 lakh votes in Sonepat, while son Deepender is trailing by a small margin in the family bastion of Rohtak.

Mehbooba Mufti pays the price for BJP alliance, PDP fails to win a single J&K seat

Not only has the PDP not won a single seat, its chief, Mehbooba Mufti, finished third in her party bastion of Anantnag.

Shashi Tharoor’s victory margin up 7 times as Congress-led UDF storms Kerala

Of Kerala's 20 seats, the only one in which the UDF was trailing was Alappuzha, the constituency of Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal.

Amit Shah, BJP’s Chanakya who mobilised a Modi army to build a bigger Modi wave

With BJP looking at winning more than 300 seats, Amit Shah is closer to fulfiling his promise of a 'panchayat to Parliament' party rule.

Jyotiraditya could well become the first Scindia to lose from Guna

The Scindias have held Guna since 1957, barring 1967 and 1984, but this potential loss for Jyotiraditya Scindia will break that imperious family record.

Punjab breaks Modi wave as Congress wins big, BJP-Akali down to 4 seats

The Amarinder Singh-led Congress has won 8 of Punjab’s 13 seats. The Badals have won the only 2 seats for the SAD, while AAP has been reduced to 1.

Why Arvind Kejriwal won’t be too keen to celebrate victory of Bhagwant Mann

The journey of Bhagwant Mann, the only AAP leader expected to win in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, has been riddled with controversies.

Naveen Patnaik is winning the prestige battle against ‘rebel’ Jay Panda in Kendrapada

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik had made it a battle of prestige to defeat BJP's Baijayant Panda, whom he has accused of spreading rumours about his health.

On Camera

I met Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in 2005. He told me he was an admirer of MK Gandhi

Shuttle diplomacy at a high level is indicated, along the lines of the famous Kissingerian shuttles following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

#ByeByeAP to #LuluBackInAP: Naidu’s moves to make Andhra ‘business friendly’ & woo back investors

The Jagan Reddy govt has been accused of scuppering various investment deals. Under Naidu, the govt, is trying to make AP a top investment destination, officials and industrialists say.

IAF chief AP Singh red-flags Tejas delay, says China ahead in technology & production capacity

Air force chief says HAL needs to churn out 24 aircraft per year. It is important for IAF to have indigenous weapons systems to deal with any security challenges, he says.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?