New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is expected to maintain its hold in Bihar as the coalition may win 33 out of the 40 seats in the state, according to IANS-CVOTER exit poll. The BJP is predicted to win 13 seats while the Janata Dal (United)[Read More…]
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New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is expected to win nine out of Haryana’s 10 Lok Sabha seats, an IANS-CVOTER exit poll showed on Sunday. In the previous general elections held in 2014, the BJP-led NDA had won seven Lok Sabha seats. The exit polls[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) could win 242 Lok Sabha seats, 30 short of the majority mark, according to an exit poll conducted by Neta-NewsX. The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) could win 164 seats while the BSP-SP-RLD Mahagathbandhan could win 43 seats, said[Read More…]
Bengaluru, May 19 (IANS) An average of 69 per cent voting was registered in by-elections for Karnataka’s two Assembly segments – Chincholi and Kundgol – till 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, a poll official said. “Around 65 per cent was recorded in Chincholi and 73 per cent in Kundgol. As voters[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Despite its loss in 2018 assembly polls, the BJP is likely to win about 21 to 25 out of Karnataka’s 28 seats, the India Today-Axis My India Exit poll predicted on Sunday. The BJP, which had won 17 seats in Karnataka in the 2014 Lok[Read More…]
Shimla, May 19 (IANS) Nearly 69 per cent of the over 53 lakh voters in Himachal Pradesh turned out on Sunday to elect Members of Parliament for the state’s four Lok Sabha seats in the last phase of the general elections, officials said. The turnout this time crossed the 2014[Read More…]
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Lucknow, May 19 (IANS) Reacting to exit polls given out by various channels and others, Congress leader Pramod Tiwari said on Sunday that these polls seem to have been designed to promote the Modi government, while the BJP said the these polls only reflected what opinion polls had already said.[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The DMK is expected to make gains in Tamil Nadu but its prospects of sweeping the southern state seems remote as the ruling AIADMK appears to have prevented a whitewash, according to the IANS-CVOTER exit poll. AIADMK, which had won 37 of the 39 Lok[Read More…]
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) An indisposed former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee did not cast his vote on Sunday in the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha polls. The CPI-M stalwart is suffering from a progressive lung problem – chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – and could not[Read More…]
Panaji, May 19 (IANS) Over 75 per cent of the voters cast their ballots in the Panaji Assembly bypoll on Sunday, which was necessitated following the death of former Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar in March. North Goa Collector R. Menaka said that 75.25 per cent voters exercised their franchise. Voting[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s Telengana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) is likely to improve its performance in the just-ended Lok Sabha elections as the IANS-CVOTER exit poll projected 14 seats for it out of Telangana’s total 17 Lok Sabha constituencies. In the 2014 general elections, the party won[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) If exit polls are to be believed, the Narendra Modi government is coming back to power with full majority, but the predictions by poll survey agencies in the past have found not to be close to the actual results. Riding on ‘Modi wave’, National Democratic[Read More…]
London, May 19 (IANS) Australia head coach Justin Langer on Sunday said watching Steve Smith during the team’s first practice session here was like “watching Sachin bat.” Smith, returning to the fold after the ball tampering incident kept him and David Warner away from the game for one year, was[Read More…]
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) A BJP candidate was attacked while the vehicles of another nominee and a senior party leader vandalised allegedly by Trinamool Congress workers as West Bengal recorded a 72.91 per cent turnout till 5 p.m. in the final phase of polling on Sunday amid allegations of sporadic[Read More…]
Cannes, May 19 (IANS) Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Huma Qureshi, Diana Penty and Hina Khan made a pretty picture of “desi girl power” as they posed alongside Nick Jonas at a party on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival. “Strong women support each other, real women support each other. Thank[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is expected to retain 22 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a slight dip from its 2014 tally when it had swept the state, the IANS-CVOTER exit poll showed on Sunday. In[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is all set to return to power winning 287 seats in Lok Sabha elections, but the Bharatiya Janata Party may fall short of half-way mark on its own as it is expected to win 236 seats, according to[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Use of seven national and state icons by the Election Commission failed to inspire a substantive chunk of voters in the national capital where the voter turnout saw a five per cent drop during polling on May 12 as compared to the last Lok Sabha[Read More…]
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