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Bengaluru: Three former Chief Ministers from Karnataka -- Basavaraj Bommai, Jagadish Shettar and H D Kumaraswamy -- Tuesday joined a long list of their predecessors who went on to play an innings in national politics by winning the Lok Sabha polls. For Bommai and Shettar...

Kolkata: Defying all exit-poll predictions, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has surged ahead in 29 of West Bengal's 42 Lok Sabha seats, dealing a blow to the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) target of securing 35 seats as they just managed to reach double digits. The BJP...

Lakhimpur Kheri: Union minister and BJP candidate Ajay Mishra Teni lost the Lakhimpur Kheri Lok Sabha seat to the Samajwadi Party's Utkarsh Verma by a margin of 34,329 votes, according to Election Commission figures. Utkarsh Verma secured 5,57,365 votes while Ajay Mishra Teni got 5,23,036...

Kolkata: It took the electorate of the Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency a quarter of a century to break the status quo and elect a new representative from the seat to the lower house of the Parliament. Rejecting Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, its five-time MP from this...

Hyderabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi Tuesday won the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency for the fifth consecutive time, defeating his nearest rival K Madhavi Latha of BJP by a margin of over 3.38 lakh votes. Owaisi secured 6,61,981 votes, while Madhavi Latha got 3,23,894 votes. Owaisi...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the message and the messenger for the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls, dwarfing all his rivals in the gruelling campaign. But as results poured in Tuesday, the message seemed to have been overshadowed by the resurgent opposition, which restricted...

Patna: One of the oldest allies of the BJP, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who heads the JD(U), finds himself in the kingmaker's position, with the saffron camp falling short of a majority in the Lok Sabha. The septuagenarian had also played a key role...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday described the NDA's expected majority in the Lok Sabha polls as a historic feat in India's history, noting that people have placed their faith in the ruling alliance for a third consecutive term. In a post on X,...

Rae Bareli (UP): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Tuesday won the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh by a margin of 3,90,030 votes, bettering his mother Sonia Gandhi's victory margin in 2019. According to the Election Commission (EC), Rahul Gandhi secured a total of...

Bengaluru: The win in two out of three seats it contested in the Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka has come as a morale booster to the JD(S), smarting under the sex scandal allegedly involving its MP Prajwal Revanna that rocked the party. Party state President...