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At least 19 students were killed in a massive fire which broke out at a coaching centre located in a multi-storied building in Gujarat's Surat city on Friday, officials said. Videos recorded by witnesses on social media showed several students jumping out of windows on the top floor of the build...
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Powered by an unprecedented Narendra Modi surge across most parts of India, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday stormed back to power to rule India for five more years with a landmark verdict in parliamentary elections that saw a saffron sweep bigger than the party got five years ago. In his firs...
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday set off a saffron storm in West Bengal leading in 19 parliamentary seats, a performance that posed a serious challenge to the state’s ruling Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress which led in 25 seats. Out of the total of 42 states in West Bengal, ...
With the vote-count in India’s national elections just a few hours away on Thursday, rival political parties bidding for power on Wednesday sought to project a picture of confidence about victory as security was beefed up at all the places across the country where electronic voting machines ar...
India on Wednesday successfully launched an earth observation satellite that would enhance its surveillance capabilities among others. In a pre-dawn launch, the Indian Space Research Organization’s tested and trusted workhorse, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C46) blasted off at 5.30 ...
A couple of days ahead of counting of votes in Indian parliamentary elections, a controversy broke out on Monday after videos surfaced of alleged tampering of EVMs in Uttar Pradesh, the most important poll battleground, a charge dismissed by the Election Commission as ‘frivolous’ and &ls...
India on Tuesday paid tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated by a suicide bomber of Sri Lankan separatist group LTTE, on his 28th death anniversary observed as “Anti-Terrorism Day.” Congress President Rahul Gandhi, his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and their ...
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Unfazed by exit poll results predicting the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance to return to power in parliamentary elections, Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu, who is looking to stitch a non-BJP coalition at the Centre, on Monday met Trinamool Congress chief Mamata B...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies are likely to come back to power for a second consecutive term, according to four exit polls. Republic TV-C Voter exit poll projected the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance as to get 287 seats against the Congress-led UP...
Curtain will fall on India’s mammoth and long-drawn parliamentary elections with the seventh and final phase of voting today. In the election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party is seeking a second consecutive term in power, is pitted in an unexpectedly tight contest. An e...
With just four days to go for the results of Indian national polls, leaders of opposition parties on Saturday stepped up their efforts to put together an anti-BJP coalition for formation of the next government in the event of Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance falling well short of majority. At the...
Addressing his first media conference in five years here on Friday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that for the first time a government that enjoyed a full five-year term will return with majority after the parliamentary election. "It has not happened often in our country that a gover...
Assessing that the parliamentary elections will produce a hung verdict, India’s Congress leader Sonia Gandhi is understood to have begun alliance-building talks to explore the possibility of convening a meeting of various opposition leaders in New Delhi soon after the poll results are declared...
A day after India’s Election Commission curtailed the campaign time in the final leg of the national election on May 19 following violence during BJP president Amit Shah's roadshow in Kolkata, opposition parties on Thursday rallied behind Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and accused the poll...
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In a fresh war of words, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday blamed “Trinamool Congress goons” for vandalisation of Bengal Renaissance icon Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's bust in Kolkata and promised to install his grand statue at the same spot but West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata...
India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told her visiting Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif on Tuesday that a decision on purchasing Iranian oil in the face of US economic sanctions will be made after the conclusion of India’s general election keeping in mind New Delhi’s ener...
Bangladesh on Tuesday sought the World Trade Organization’s support for meeting trade-related challenges it may face after coming out of the Least Developed Country category in line with the UN General Assembly resolution of 2004. Making his intervention at the two-day WTO Ministerial Meeting ...
The federal Indian government has given its approval to Tripura state government's proposal for setting up a second Integrated Check Post (ICP) along the border with Bangladesh and two new border 'haats' in the state to improve trade and bilateral relations with the neighbouring country,...
The proportion of candidates with criminal and serious criminal cases against them in the ongoing parliamentary elections in India is more than in the previous two national polls, according to a report by election watchdog Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) released on Monday. The report, base...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday sought to dismiss ‘claims by pundits and planted reports from Delhi’ that there is no ‘Modi wave’ in the ongoing parliamentary elections as was the case in the previous national polls five years ago. The (Modi) wave is coming out ...
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