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BJP fails to win a single seat in Tamil Nadu but vote-share peaks at 10.69%

The BJP’s vote share in Tamil Nadu registered a marked improvement from 2019, when it managed to get only 3.66 percent.

Rohini Acharya fails to reclaim dad Lalu’s legacy seat, BJP’s Rajiv Pratap Rudy scores hattrick in Saran

Acharya, who holds an MBBS degree and lived in Singapore until the party announced her candidature, shot to prominence in 2022 when she donated one of her kidneys to her father.

‘Neck and neck’ — 2 factions of Shiv Sena emerge as equals in direct contest in 13 seats

Smooth sailing for Eknath Shinde in home turf Thane & son's seat Kalyan while 48 votes clinched win in Mumbai North West. Shiv Sena (UBT) leads in South & South Central Mumbai.

Congress’s Manish Tewari wrests Chandigarh from BJP after 10 yrs, Sanjay Tandon loses by slim margin

Tiwari was the joint candidate of the Congress and the AAP. Actor-turned-politician Kirron Kher held the seat for the last two terms.

Congress’s Gurjeet Aujla retains Amritsar, BJP’s Taranjit Sandhu pushed to third place

Aujla won by a margin of 40,301 votes. His nearest rival was cabinet minister and Aam Aadmi Party candidate Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal.

Axis My India head Pradeep Gupta weeps on live TV after 400-seat forecast for NDA goes wrong

Election results showed psephologist’s prediction was wildly off the mark. Afternoon trends showed NDA was falling short of 300 seats, and BJP much lesser than the 303 it won in 2019.

Dimple Yadav wins in Samajwadi Party pocket borough Mainpuri by over 2.2 lakh votes

Dimple secured nearly 6 lakh votes in Mainpuri, a seat she first won in a 2022 bypoll after Mulayam Singh Yadav's demise. Starting 1996, the SP founder won the seat five times.

How BJP engineered downfall of Naveen Patnaik after 2014 & broke BJD’s stranglehold on Odisha

Organisational infrastructure was limited in 2019 but today the party boasts of 1,005 mandals for 147 assembly constituencies, says state BJP leader Sajjan Sharma.

Patiala stronghold crumbles as Preneet Kaur loses to Congress’s Dharamvira Gandhi

Gandhi now has tag of giant slayer as he had earlier defeated Kaur in 2014 parliamentary elections as AAP candidate. Outgoing MP is a member of erstwhile Patiala royal family.

Telangana lost, big zero on Lok Sabha scoreboard, KCR’s BRS stares at existential crisis

In 2009, KCR’s party was down to 2 Lok Sabha seats. The same disappointing results repeated for former Telangana chief minister this year.

On Camera

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation proposal to be shared with defence ministry in a week or so—CDS Gen Anil Chauhan

Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.