The BJP has won the prestige battle in Uttar Pradesh, bagging nine seats by defeating the SP and BSP combine and avenging the Lok Sabha bypoll loss.
The saffron party was assured of winning eight seats and relied on support of independents and rebels to clinch the ninth seat. Samajwadi …
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🔰 Eight BJP candidates win Rajya Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.
🔰 The ruling Congress in Karnataka today bagged three Rajya Sabha seats and BJP one in the biennial election, news agency PTI reported.
Congress's Dr L Hanumanthaiah, Dr Syed Naseer Hussain and G C Chandrasekhar, as …
read moreCounting of votes for Rajya Sabha elections begins in Uttar Pradesh after clearance from the Election Commission. ACEO Ramesh Rai said, the CCTV footage has been examined and nothing objectionable has been found. The process was halted after BSP has filed a complaint with EC saying MLAs Nitin Agarwal and …
read moreJanata Dal leader MP Veerendra Kumar elected to Rajya Sabha from Kerala. He got 89 votes while his opponent D Babu Prasad of the Congress polled 40 votes. Eight legislators of the Kerala Congress (Mani) and lone BJP MLA O Rajagopal boycotted the polling.
TDP leader C M Ramesh, has …
read moreSocial activist Anna Hazare on Friday launched a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi-led BJP government, saying his efforts to communicate with the government on issues of Lokpal and agrarian distress had yielded no result. Nearly seven years after the anti-corruption movement, Anna started an indefinite hunger strike to press …
read moreThe US's new National Security Advisor (NSA) John Bolton, known for being an extreme hawk in diplomatic circles, may not be as hard on Pakistan as his President Donald Trump wants him to be. Media interviews with Bolton - named NSA yesterday - from the recent past suggest that while he believes …
read moreTwo policemen, including a sub-inspector, were injured when a pressure bomb, suspected to be planted by the Naxals, went off in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Friday, the police said. The incident took place this morning near Ulloor village when a team of the district police force was out on an …
read moreMumbai Police today again won hearts, this time by fulfilling the dream of a seven-year-old cancer patient, Arpit Mandal, who aspired to become a police inspector.
Arpit was given charge of the Mulund police station for a day. The social media team of Mumbai Police shared pictures of ‘Inspector Mandal …
Nothing about the ordinary-looking hillock in Keljhar (Wardha district) revealed what lies beneath. Until a group of aspiring archaeologists dug-it up to find a treasure trove of history and culture.
What started as a routine excavation for the first and second year students of Nagpur University’s Ancient Indian History …
read moreThe Income Tax Department on Friday conducted raids at 15 premises of a business group in Indore, Gwalior, and Bhind cities in Madhya Pradesh on suspicion of major tax evasion, an official said. "The exact amount of tax evasion would be known only after the scrutiny of the seized material …
read moreStriking down the Election Commission’s order disqualifying 20 AAP MLAs, the Delhi High Court on Friday quashed the Presidential notification and directed the poll body to hear the case once again. The President, acting on the recommendation from the EC, had disqualified the MLAs “for holding office of profit …
read moreThe counting of votes for Rajya Sabha elections has started and the results are expected to be announced shortly. Here are the results so far:
(Results are Statewise)
Andhra Pradesh CM Ramesh TDP Won
Andhra Pradesh Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar TDP Won
Andhra Pradesh Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy YSRCP Won
Bihar Ahmad …
The Congress today moved a no-confidence motion against the Union government in the Lok Sabha, the third party to do so even as the stalemate continues in Parliament. Leader of the Congress party in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to the Lower House's secretary general giving notice to include the …
read moreThe direct maiden flight of Air India to Tel Aviv from New Delhi arrived here on Thursday, heralding a new chapter in the India-Israel ties and ending a decades-old overfly ban by Saudi Arabia. Flight AI 139 landed at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport at 2215 (Israeli time).
"This is …
read moreIndia, currently the seventh largest tourism economy, will move ahead four places and become the third largest in the next 10 years. A report by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has said the sector's total contribution to the economy will more than double from Rs. 15L crore in 2017 …
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