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New Delhi: Sixty-seven candidates have bagged the top rank in medical entrance exam NEET-UG, a majority of them from Rajasthan, the National Testing Agency announced Tuesday. The top rankers in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) also include 14 girls, the agency said. It...

New Delhi: The Rashtrapati Bhavan will remain closed to the general public from Wednesday to Sunday due to the preparations for the forthcoming swearing-in ceremony of the council of ministers, an official statement said Tuesday. Lok Sabha poll results and trends showed that the BJP...

Guwahati/ Bhubaneswar: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma affirmed the BJP's commitment to fulfil its promises to the people of Odisha as the party was on its way to form the government in that state. Sarma had extensively campaigned in Odisha. "History created in Odisha!...

Srinagar: The defeat in Lok Sabha polls has come as a setback for the political careers of former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti in view of their vows not to contest the upcoming assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir till it remains a...

Lucknow: In a major upset in the Faizabad parliamentary constituency, where the temple town of Ayodhya is situated, Samajwadi Party candidate Awadhesh Prasad defeated sitting BJP MP Lallu Singh by a margin of 54,567 votes. According to the Election Commission data, Prasad polled 5,54,289 votes...

New Delhi: Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, industrialist Naveen Jindal and UP Minister Jitin Prasada are among the turncoats who won the Lok Sabha polls while Ashok Tanwar, Sita Soren and Preneet Kaur joined the list of those who had defected to the saffron party but...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said people have shown full confidence in the BJP and the NDA and the Lok Sabha elections results were a victory of the people, democracy and faith in the country's Constitution. "After 1962, for the first time a...

Chennai: BJP Tuesday conquered the final frontier when its star candidate Suresh Gopi emerged victorious from Kerala's Thrissur amid Congress' continued victory march in the southern state, as the neighbouring Tamil Nadu saw the DMK-led bloc humbling its rivals. In Andhra Pradesh, TDP supremo N...

New Delhi: The BJP suffered stunning losses in three Hindi heartland states, partial poll results showed Tuesday, forcing the party to rely on allies to form the government after a bitter and divisive election that was projected as a referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's...

Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi retaining power in the general elections under "changed circumstances" will make the implementation of critical reforms challenging, economists said Tuesday. Economists said the results, wherein trends and leads showed the incumbent National Democratic Alliance (NDA) being set to win around...