Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance was set to create history on Tuesday as it inched towards power, stunning the Congress.

By Tuesday afternoon, the Akali

The Congress on Tuesday suffered a disastrous defeat losing all five seats in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli constituency, represented by party president Sonia Gandhi in the Lok Sabha.

Four of the seats

The counting of votes in the Assembly elections to the five states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa – considered some sort of a semi-final before the next general elections – beg

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accepted responsibility for the party's disastrous showing in Uttar Pradesh where he aggressively led the election campaign.

"I fought, so it is my

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Sunday trashed the result projections thrown up by exit polls for five states, terming such exercises as ‘fraud’, and predicted ‘astonishing’ gains for the

Former President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s former driver Kathiresan is busy at Sankarankoil constituency educating the electorate against ‘selling’ their votes.

Dr V. Kathiresan worked as Dr Kalam’s d

The Uttar Pradesh cabinet has passed a resoultion recommending dissolution of the 403-member assembly here late on Sunday.

The decision was taken after the chief minister's office got signatures of a

Millions of votes polled in five states in India's biggest popularity test since the 2009 Lok Sabha battle will be counted on Tuesday with political players keeping their fingers crossed.

The mammoth

The Congress today virtually snubbed Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma making it clear that it will sit in the Opposition in Uttar Pradesh if it does not not get majority.

"Congress will form a gover

With the media in overdrive over government formation in Uttar Pradesh, making and breaking alliances by the hour, the man who should be at the helm of all activity is quietly waiting and watching.

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