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New York: Adani group founder and chairman Gautam Adani and his nephew Sagar have been summoned to explain their stand on the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) allegation of paying $265 million (Rs 2,200 crore) in bribes to secure lucrative solar power contracts. Summons...

New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's resounding victory in the Wayanad bypoll, is not only her successful electoral debut but a milestone in Indian politics, as for the first time, three members of the Nehru-Gandhi family are simultaneously in the Parliament. While Priyanka...

Kolkata: The TMC swept bypolls in West Bengal Saturday, retaining five seats and wresting Madarihat from BJP, further cementing its political dominance in West Bengal, even as the ongoing protests over the RG Kar incident failed to sway voters. The bypolls were held in six...

Patna: The ruling NDA in Bihar Saturday swept the bypolls to four assembly segments, retaining Imamganj and wresting from the INDIA bloc Tarari, Ramgarh and Belaganj, receiving a boost ahead of the assembly elections due next year. Candidates of the Jan Suraaj, floated recently by...

Ranchi: Hemant Soren's JMM-led alliance was all set to retain Jharkhand as it was leading in at least 50 seats in the 81-member state assembly Saturday, as per the Election Commission data. The performance of the BJP-led NDA, which was seen as confident about its...

Kolkata: The TMC won three seats, wresting the key Madarihat seat from the BJP, and took unassailable leads in three others across all six assembly constituencies where bypolls were held, reinforcing its stronghold in West Bengal despite ongoing protests over the RG Kar Medical College...

Mumbai/Ranchi: BJP Saturday pulled off a stunning performance in Maharashtra winning a record number of seats to propel the party-led ruling Mahayuti alliance to a landslide victory while the INDIA bloc stormed back to power in Jharkhand on the back of a spectacular showing by...

Mumbai: The ruling BJP-led Mahayuti alliance appeared set to retain power in Maharashtra, and was leading in 218 of the 288 assembly seats, as per figures of early trends in the counting the latest figures by the Election Commission. The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi was...

New Delhi: A woman allegedly strangled her five-year-old daughter to death in northwest Delhi to marry a man she met on Instagram, police said Saturday. The woman also told the police that she lived with a relative in Himachal Pradesh before coming to Delhi where...

Ranchi: The JMM-led INDIA bloc was leading in 48 of the 81 assembly seats in Jharkhand while the BJP-headed NDA was ahead in 28 as the counting of votes was underway Saturday, according to trends available on the Election Commission's website. The counting of votes...