India election results: Crucial seats to watch out for

The Lok Sabha elections 2019 were one of the most highly-charged parliamentary elections in the country in recent years. Nearly all the big names in Indian politics contested. Many new faces emerged and new political parties were formed.
23 May 2019, 04:49 AM

Modi wins Indian election in landslide

Riding on the crest of an unprecedented Modi surge across most parts of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party storms back to power to rule India for five more years with a historic mandate in parliamentary elections that saw a saffron sweep bigger than the party got five years ago.
23 May 2019, 04:32 AM

Rahul terms exit polls results 'fraudulent'

Breaking his silence, Congress party president Rahul Gandhi terms parliamentary election exit polls results as “fraudulent” and urges the party men to be alert.
22 May 2019, 15:52 PM

Modi, Pranab express concern over EVM ‘controversy’

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expresses concern over the “needless controversy” created by the opposition over EVMs at a meeting of NDA leaders yesterday evening convened by party president Amit Shah.
22 May 2019, 06:26 AM

India launches surveillance satellite

India has successfully launched an earth observation satellite that would enhance the country’s surveillance capabilities among others.
22 May 2019, 06:25 AM

India decides: Counting the world's largest ballot

India's enormous election took six weeks to hold, but organisers have alloted just one day to count all the ballots cast by some of the 900 million eligible voters.
22 May 2019, 05:50 AM

Exit Polls and Exact Polls

Minutes after the buttons on the Electronic Voting Machines were pressed for the last time on May 19 in the Indian national elections, the people were flooded with a flurry of exit polls broadcast over TV channels.
21 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Local MP, 10 others, killed in NE India

A state legislator in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and at least ten others have been killed in an attack by suspected separatist militants, officials say.
21 May 2019, 11:32 AM

India polls: EVM 'tampering' video goes viral

Videos of alleged tampering of EVMs in India's Uttar Pradesh have gone viral in the social media, two days ahead of the beginning of vote counting in Indian parliamentary elections.
21 May 2019, 10:53 AM

India opposition leaders to meet over new govt formation

Stepping up their activities ahead of counting of votes in parliamentary elections on Thursday, top Indian opposition leaders will meet later today to discuss the possibility of a staking claim to form the new government formation in the event of the BJP-led combine failing to get majority.
21 May 2019, 08:01 AM

Exit polls just to discourage you: Priyanka Gandhi to Congress workers

A day after exit polls predicted a sweeping victory for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the Lok Sabha elections, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi yesterday released an audio message advising party workers to not fall for "rumours" intended to make them drop their guard ahead of the counting of votes on May 23.
21 May 2019, 04:41 AM

Rights groups seek UN probe

Tens of thousands of people in Indian Kashmir have been subjected to torture in the past three decades, according to a report released yesterday by two prominent human rights groups which called for a UN investigation.
20 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Naidu seeks non-BJP coalition with Mamata

Key opposition leader and Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu has flown to Kolkata to meet Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to stitch a non-BJP coalition.
20 May 2019, 09:34 AM

Mamata sees 3 cues in exit polls forecast

Mamata Banerjee has rubbished exit polls forecast saying “they are gossips” and identified three reasons behind Modi’s victory prediction.
20 May 2019, 07:25 AM

India: ‘Exit Polls Are All Wrong’

Hours after exit polls on Sunday indicated a huge win for the National Democratic Alliance, Congress parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor tweeted his reading of the prediction as something that can also turn out "all wrong".
20 May 2019, 06:18 AM

Exit polls show Modi-led alliance likely to win majority

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies are likely to return to power for a second consecutive term after the parliamentary elections that ended today, according to different exit polls.
19 May 2019, 14:36 PM

India votes in the final phase of election

Millions of voters stand in queue in front of polling stations to exercise their franchise in the seventh and final phase of Indian parliamentary elections.
19 May 2019, 04:55 AM

Indian PM Modi completes meditation in Kedarnath cave

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emerges from a cave in Kedarnath after spending a night of meditation in the temple town in Uttarakhand.
19 May 2019, 04:51 AM

‘Godse Killed Gandhi, Pragya killed His Soul’

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi yesterday said Mahatma Gandhi is above power and politics and people like Pragya Singh Thakur are killing the soul of India and the BJP should expel her from the party.
18 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Voting in last phase of India polls tomorrow

Voting in the seventh and final phase of India’s long-drawn parliamentary elections takes places tomorrow when Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party seeks a second consecutive term in power in the face of an unexpectedly tight contest.
18 May 2019, 08:16 AM