After hearing out the candidates and the district chiefs, Mamata Banerjee would announce a road map on overcoming the electoral setbacks and making a turnaround
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Union Minister and BJP leader SS Ahluwalia leads in Burdwan-Durgapur
Kolkata: Union Minister and BJP candidate S.S. Ahluwalia is leading over his Trinamool Congress rival Mamtaz Sanghamita in West Bengal’s Burdwan-Durgapur Lok Sabha seat after close to two hours of vote counting. In the 2014 polls, Sanghamita won the seat by over 1,07,331 votes. –IANS
Sharad Pawar in contact with BJD, TRS, others ahead of Lok Sabha results
Pawar is also learnt to be touch with the DMK and Trinamool Congress, two other parties expected to get a large chunk of seats among the opposition parties.
Arunachal Pradesh: Sitting Khonsa MLA Tirong Aboh, six others shot dead by unknown militants
Militants belonging to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) are suspected to be behind the attack
Gujarat: Hindu Mahasabha members celebrate Nathuram Godse’s birth anniversary; arrested
Hindu Mahasabha members lit up diyas around Godse’s photograph, exchanged sweets and sang hymns
PM Narendra Modi pays tribute to Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter and paid tribute to Rajiv Gandhi. “Tributes to former PM Shri Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary,” Modi wrote.
287 to NDA, 128 to UPA in IANS-CVOTER exit poll
New Delhi: 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 CVOTER-IANS exit poll.[Read More…]
Viral audio clip said to be of BJP’s Praveen Nishad urges people to vote for SP-BSP in Gorakhpur
A day before the voting for the high-profile Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat, a 1.34 minute audio clip said to be of Bharatiya Janata Party’s Praveen Kumar Nishad has gone viral on social media, in which the Sant Kabir Nagar candidate Nishad can be heard urging people to vote for SP-BSP[Read More…]
Had Godse not killed Bapu, the nation might not have considered Mahatma Gandhi so great: Kapil Mishra
“The shops that are running under Bapu’s name would not have been running and those who are ruling under Gandhi’s name would have been here,” Sharma wrote.
Danish politician puts ad on Pornhub, says ‘You have to be where the voters are’
The politician in a Facebook post confirmed that he did take out the advertisement. “Yes, it’s me on Pornhub,” he said, according to the media website
