Samajwadi Party candidate Pravin Kumar Nishad was on Wednesday elected to the Lok Sabha from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, a seat vacated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, defeating the BJP's Upendra Dutt Shukla by 21,881 votes, officials said....
In a major blow to the BJP, the Samajwadi Party, backed by its otherwise bitter foe BSP, wrested the Phulpur Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh and was set to win in Gorakhpur, seats vacated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya....
The RJD on Wednesday won the Jehanabad Assembly seat and established a winning lead in the Araria Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, but the BJP bagged the Bhabhua Assembly seat, officials on Wednesday said....
The Gujarat Assembly witnessed yet another high-voltage drama as members came to blows on Wednesday over a sought-for discussion on the death of two children in Asaram Ashram at Sabarmati. This led to suspension of Congress MLA Pratap Dudhat for the entire term. Speaker Rajendra Trivedi adjourned the House shortly after Qu...
Samajwadi Party candidate Nagendra Singh Patel was on Wednesday elected to the Lok Sabha from Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh, defeating his nearest BJP opponent by 59,613 votes, an Election Commission official said....
The BJP's shocking performance in the three Lok Sabha by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar prove the "electorate is very angry against the BJP and will vote for the non-BJP candidate most likely to win". "Congratulations to the winning candidates in today's by-election," Gandhi tweeted, as it became clear that the Samajwadi Party was set to defeat the BJP in the Go...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday congratulated Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, BSP chief Mayawati and RJD leader Lalu Prasad as the opposition took big leads over the BJP in Lok Sabha by-elections. "Great victory. Congratulations to Mayawatiji and Akhileshji... The beginning of the end has started," the Trinamool Congress leade...
A special CBI court on Wednesday discharged DMK leader and former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother and Sun TV group head Kalanithi Maran and five others in the alleged illegal telephone exchange case. The seven had filed a discharge petition which the court allowed on the grounds of lack of prima facie material aga...
London/New Delhi, March 14 Renowned British physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, who shaped modern cosmology and inspired millions despite suffering from a life-threatening condition, died on Wednesday. He was 76. His family released a statement in the early hours of Wednesday confirming his death at his home in Cambridge. "We are deeply s...
Three unidentified charred bodies were found on board the container ship Maersk Honam which had caught fire on March 6 in the Arabian Sea near the Agatti Isles, an official said here on Wednesday. "Maersk has informed that three bodies (out of the four missing persons including an Indian), have now been found on board the ill-fated container s...
