Politics

Rahul Gandhi remained adamant about not continuing as the party chief, a decision he said was non-negotiable, according to sources.

In a speech that touched upon the past as well as signalled the future, Narendra Modi also coined a new slogan that he said would be the guiding path for him: NARA – National Ambitions and Regional Aspirations.

During his first visit to his home state after the poll results, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek the blessings of his mother Hiraba Modi at her residence here.

The owner of the coaching centre and the builders of the complex have been booked after it was found there were gross structural irregularities and wilful negligence of fire safety norms, leading to the death of 20 students.

Top Congress leaders from across the country got together to review the party's drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls, as the Congress Working Committee meeting got underway in New Delhi. According to sources, Rahul Gandhi offered to resign at the meeting. Howe...

Rahul Gandhi is likely to offer his resignation at the Congress Working Committee meeting on Saturday.

Popularly known as “Jay Panda”, the BJP candidate lost to BJD’s actor-turned-Rajya Sabha member Anubhav Mohanty by a margin of 1,52,584 votes.

The Rajasthan chief minister said the people's mandate in a democracy is important and his party accepts it with humility, but expressed his anguish at the manner in which the BJP rode to victory banking on religion, caste and nationalism instead of relyi...

The newly-elected BJP leader also said that his rival Atishi "lacked vision" which he said then prompted her to string many allegations against him.

National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, AIMIM's outspoken chief Asaduddin Owaisi and Samajwadi Party's Azam Khan are among the high profile Muslim candidates who have won the polls.

Decimating the opposition that was left hovering around a tally of 50, Modi became the first non-Congress full majority Prime Minister to get re-elected with a stronger majority, 48 years after Indira Gandhi pulled it off in 1971.

The Left Democratic Front, which could win only one seat and even lost in its citadels like Alathur, Attingal and Palakkad, has a lot of introspection to do for its huge loss in the state.

People have started discussing if the Congress chief, as an Opposition MP, would be able to bring developments as promised, during his poll campaign, in the constituency nestled in the Western Ghats.

This was the first Lok Sabha election where their mother, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, did not campaign and neither did former prime minister Manmohan Singh. Many in the party questioned the strategy of keeping Singh away from the campaign circuit.

Rahul Gandhi, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Milind Deora and Nikhil Kumaraswamy were some of the big names who have been defeated.

Heena Shahab approached the Returning Officer with her application she found the outcome at variance with the public mood.