Teesta water issue to be expedited, hopes Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has expressed hope that the process of solving the unresolved bilateral issues including Teesta water sharing with India will be expedited through victory of Narendra Modi.
24 May 2019

BJP’s Smriti Irani tweets 'new morning for Amethi'

TV actress-turned-politician Bharatiya Janata Party leader Smriti Irani tweets a message of gratitude for the people of Amethi, the parliamentary constituency where she pulled off the giant feat of defeating Congress President Rahul Gandhi.
24 May 2019

Democracy, people of India have won: Modi in victory speech

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to return to power with historic mandate, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sweeping over 300 seats on its own. Modi is set to become only the third Prime Minister in India and the first non-Congress leader to be elected for a second consecutive time after completing a five-year term.
24 May 2019

Pakistan PM Imran Khan congratulates Modi on victory, calls for peace

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan congratulates India's Narendra Modi for a triumphant victory that returned him to power in New Delhi after an election fought in the shadow of renewed confrontation between the nuclear-armed enemies.
23 May 2019

Rahul Gandhi concedes defeat, congratulates PM Modi

Congress president Rahul Gandhi concedes defeat in the Lok Sabha elections 2019 but says that he will continue his ideological fight against the BJP.
23 May 2019

PM phones Modi, greets on his party’s landslide poll victory

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls Indian Premier Narendra Modi and extended heartiest congratulations to him on his party’s landslide victory in the Indian general elections.
23 May 2019

All losers are not losers, let VVPATs matched: Mamata Banerjee

As trends pointed to a massive victory for BJP-led NDA in Lok Sabha elections 2019, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tweets her congratulations to the winners while adding that her party will share its view only after the VVPATs are matched.
23 May 2019

BJP leading in 16, Trinamool 25 in West Bengal

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has made a deep inroad into West Bengal by leading in 16 parliamentary seats posing a strong challenge to the state’s ruling Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress which is leading in 25 seats.
23 May 2019

Rahul Gandhi in see-saw battle in Amethi

Congress President Rahul Gandhi was today involved in a see-saw battle in Amethi, the parliamentary constituency and bastion of the Gandhi dynasty, in Uttar Pradesh with early leads showing him trailing behind his BJP challenger Smriti Irani for some moment.
23 May 2019

Laddoo cake, lotus-shaped sweets as BJP prepares for comeback

Preparations for a grand celebration are in full swing among India’s Bharatiya Janata Party workers and supporters after the party and its allies are heading for a victory for the second successive term.
23 May 2019

20,000 BJP workers get invited for Modi's ‘Grand Welcome’

The BJP, confident of winning the national election and returning to power with a huge majority, has asked some 20,000 workers to come to the party headquarters in Delhi this evening, reports Indian news portal NDTV.
23 May 2019

India's foreign minister congratulates Modi on election victory

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party has won the general election, a senior party leader said today.
23 May 2019

Ahead of poll results, Mamata plays Rabindra Sangeet on piano

Hours before the counting of votes are to start declaring the verdict of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appeared to have taken refuge in music to cool her nerves. She took to keyboard and played a Rabindra Sangeet tune, as seen in a video posted on Facebook from her official handle.
23 May 2019

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

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

How Votes are Counted

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
22 May 2019

India tense ahead of polls results

India beefed up security ahead of the scheduled release of Lok Sabha election results today as opposition dismissed “fake” exit polls which predicted a clear victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
22 May 2019

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

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

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