Home minister P. Chidambaram on Friday described the victory of TMC-Congress alliance in West Bengal and Congress in Assam as "spectacular" and termed the poll results in Tamil Nadu as "disappointing".

Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi on Friday resigned from the post after his DMK-led alliance was routed in the assembly polls.

Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury said on Friday the defeat of the Left Front in West Bengal was because the "people opted for a change". "The people have opted for a change and the main beneficiary of the change has been the Trinamool Congress,"

Controversial writer of Bangladeshi origin Taslima Nasreen on Friday posted sarcastic tweets on the dismal performance of West Bengal's Left Front in the Assembly elections and asked how chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya was losing office even after throwing her out of the state "to get Muslim votes".

The Congress is all set to form the government in Assam for the third straight term with the main opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) reduced to smithereens with even their respective party presidents losing the polls.

Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday bagged all the three Assembly bypolls held April 9, wresting two from the Congress and one from the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S).

In the backdrop of controversy over paid news, the Press Council of India has come out with guidelines for the media like not partaking any hospitality or inducements from political parties and candidates while covering the forthcoming Assembly polls in four states.

New Delhi, Sept. 6: The Election Commission on Monday announced a six-phase schedule for the Bihar Assembly elections, starting on October 21 and ending on November 20. Counting would be taken up on N

New Delhi, July 16: With Assembly elections fast approaching in Bihar, the state’s Chief Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, and his team are on a backfoot after the Patna High Court order for a CBI probe into