Mumbai, May 19 (IANS) Vocal BJP supporters Paresh Rawal and Anupam Kher were among some Bollywood celebrities who hailed the exit polls which on Sunday predicted victory for the NDA. “Jai Ho,” Anupam tweeted in a GIF. Paresh Rawal called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “lone ranger”. The veteran actor,[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, May 19 (IANS) The exit polls by various agencies predict that for the first time the BJP will open its account in Kerala, seeing a setback for the ruling CPI-M-led Left and gains for the Congress-led UDF. Most exit polls surveys predict the Congress-led UDF to get as high[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) With most of the exit polls on Sunday predicting return of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister, the leaders of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) are likely to meet on May 21, ahead of the counting of votes on May 23. Sources in the NDA camp said[Read More…]
Bengaluru, May 19 (IANS) Ethiopian Andamlak Belihu and Kenya’s Agnes Tirop won the men’s and women’s titles in the TCS World 10K marathon run in this tech hub on Sunday. “The 20-year-old Belihu clocked 27:55 minutes and Tirop 33.55 minutes, braving a hot and humid day in peak summer Uganda’s[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday said the results of the Lok Sabha polls on May 23 will be better than the prediction of exit polls which have favoured the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) returning to power. The Congress, however, said that exit polls[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) Exit polls released on Sunday predicted that the Congress will improve from its lowest tally of 44 seats it won in 2014 but not sufficiently enough to mark a revival at the national level. According to predictions of several exit polls, Congress may not cross[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) Over 64 per cent voter turnout was recorded on Sunday in polling for 59 seats in the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections, with Madhya Pradesh recording the highest turnout of 75.53 per cent. There were reports of people ransacking a polling[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar are likely to overpower Grand Alliance in the state and expected to maintain its hold in Bihar as the coalition may win majority of the seats, most of the exit polls predicted. According to IANS-CVOTER[Read More…]
Bengaluru, May 20 (IANS) An average of 75.8 per cent polling was registered in the by-elections for Karnataka’s two Assembly segments – Chincholi and Kundgol – after 11 hours of polling at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, a poll official said. “Around 70.30 per cent was recorded in Chincholi and 81.33[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The efforts of Congress and JD-S alliance in Karnataka seem to be failing as multiple exit polls showed that the Bharatiya Janata Party will secure a maximum of 18 Lok Sabha seats. The survey conducted by IANS-C Voter has predicted 18 seats for National Democratic[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is expected to return to power at the Centre for a second consecutive term with a clear majority, according to the News18-IPSOS exit poll. Out of the total 543 Lok Sabha seats, the NDA is likely to win 336, News18-IPSOS[Read More…]
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Violence was again reported in several constituencies as voting was held in nine parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal in the seventh and last phase of the 2019 General Elections, along with bypolls in five state Assembly seats. North 24 Pargana district’s Bhatpara assembly seat, which fell[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could touch the double figure mark in West Bengal in this Lok Sabha election, up from its 2014 tally of two seats, major exit polls, including the IANS-CVOTER poll, predicted on Sunday. IANS-CVOTER said the BJP can win 11 seats[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is likely to keep its bastion in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Gujarat and Delhi and make major inroads in West Bengal, according to the exit poll by Republic TV. According to exit poll, the grand alliance[Read More…]
Amaravati, May 19 (IANS) The YSR Congress Party on Sunday said the exit polls which predicted its victory in Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections had only confirmed what it had been claiming for last several months. However, the party did not agree with the exit polls for Lok Sabha election. The[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The National Democratic Alliance may get a clear majority in the Lok Sabha, winning from 290 to 310 seats, an exit poll by India TV-CNX predicted on Sunday. However, the BJP’s tally may fall from present 282 to 251 seats, 21 short of the midway[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Election Commission has decided to re-examine the clearance it had given to Prime Minister’s Office and NITI Aayog for alleged violations of the Model Code of Conduct during the Lok Sabha elections, said sources. The Commission had last week dismissed a Congress complaint alleging[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may not suffer a major jolt in Uttar Pradesh and is likely to overcome from the setbacks it received in the Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat while it is all set to lose the Lok Sabha battle[Read More…]
Ahmedabad, May 19 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Sunday expressed confidence that the exit poll predictions on the Lok Sabha elections would be reflected in the actual results when they are announced on May 23, even as the opposition Congress insisted it would prefer to wait for the[Read More…]
Silchar/Agartala, May 19 (IANS) Tributes were paid on Sunday to commemorate the death of 11 people who died in police firing on May 19, 1961 in Silchar during the Bengali language agitation. People from all walks of life across all the three districts of Barak Valley — Cachar, Karimganj, and[Read More…]
Mumbai, May 19 (IANS) After the seventh and final phase of the 17th Lok Sabha polls ended on Sunday, the unofficial ‘Satta Bazaar’ here had bookies and punters in a tizzy with the predictions made in exit polls which were declared tonight largely favouring Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Projecting a return to power for the NDA, the ABP-Nielsen exit poll on Sunday predicted that the BJP-led alliance would get 277 Lok Sabha seats. In the 2014 elections, the NDA had got 336 seats, out of which the BJP had won 282 seats on[Read More…]
Chennai, May 19 (IANS) Tamil Nadu BJP President Tamilisai Soundararajan on Sunday condemned Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) leader Thol Thirumavalavan for terming Mahatma Gandhi a Hindu extremist. In a statement issued here Soundararajan said: “Now Gandhi has turned into an extremist in his eyes. Thirumavalan has gone to the worse[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) A domestic help was arrested by the Delhi Police after a complaint was filed in northeast Dehi’s Subhash Place area over theft of jewellery worth Rs 15 lakh and Rs 70,000 in cash. The accused identified as Khushboo (19) was working for the complainant for[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Most exit polls on Sunday predicted that the BJP’s numbers may come down in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls but it would not face a major setback in Uttar Pradesh, where it had registered a spectacular victory by winning 71 out of the total 80[Read More…]
