Top Stories

Gandhinagar, May 24: Not a single student from as many as 63 schools managed to clear the Secondary School Certificate examinations conducted by the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, the results of which were declared here on Tuesday. The overall pass percentage was 66.97 per cent, slightly lower than 67.5 per cent of last year. The exams were held in March. In a press

New Delhi, May 24: He combined BJP's core Hindutva plank with a hardcore nationalism agenda and set up a huge ground-level organisational setup to execute it the BJP's 'Chanakya' Amit Shah blazed such a trail that the 'Modi Wave 2.0' surpassed its own original avatar with a much bigger saffron surge. Known as an astute strategist whose non-political interests range from playing chess and watching

New Delhi, May 24: Sealing its phenomenal electoral victory, the Narendra Modi-led BJP crossed the 300 mark and was leading in one seat as counting for votes for 542 Lok Sabha seats neared its end on Friday. The massive exercise began Thursday morning with early trends establishing the BJP's conclusive lead, making it evident that Modi's message, packaging muscular nationalism, security and Hindu

Srinagar, May 24: Zakir Musa, the so-called chief of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, a group affiliated with al-Qaida, was believed to have been killed in an encounter with security forces on Thursday in a village in Tral of South Kashmir, officials said. They said two terrorists were killed in the encounter but there was no confirmation about their identities as the bodies were yet to be retrieved

Tehran, May 23: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuThursday became the first world leader to congratulate his counterpart Narendra Modifor scripting an "impressive victory" in the general elections and vowed to strengthen their "great friendship" as well as bilateral ties. Riding on a massive Modi wave sweeping through most parts of India, the BJP is set to return to power Thursday as it led

Bhopal, May 23: BJP's Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Pragya Singh Thakur, who recently kicked up a row with some of her remarks and was observing silence for 63 hours as a mark of penance, Thursday broke the vow to express her elation over poll trends which showed her in an unassailable lead. Thakur expressed happiness over the Lok Sabha poll trends which showed her ahead of her nearest Congress

Islamabad, May 23: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan congratulated India's Narendra Modi on the runaway election victory of his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). "I congratulate Prime Minister Modi on the electoral victory of BJP and allies. Look forward to working with him for peace, progress and prosperity in South Asia," Khan tweeted. The two nations have had tense ties in

New Delhi, May 23: Decisions taken by Rahul Gandhi led to divisions within the opposition, CPI national secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan said on Thursday and asserted that the policies of the Congress scion opened the doors for Narendra Modi's victory. Riding on a massive Modi wave sweeping through most parts of India, the BJP was set to return to power Thursday as it led in 292 seats while the

May 23: The counting of votes for the Lok Sabha Polls 2019 began at 8.00 AM today. Despite early hiccups, the BJP led NDA has performed exceedingly well in the polls. While the results haven't been announced in all the constituencies yet, the BJP looks all set to form the government yet again. Celebrations have begun around the country and members of the BJP have flooded the internet with their

New Delhi, Mar 23: The 2019 Lok Sabha elections witnessed a string of B-Town celebrities contesting from various seats across the country. While some of them managed to strike gold for their respective parties, others are trailing as per latest trends thereby getting a mixed response from voters in total. For the BJP, names like Sunny Deol (Gurdaspur), Babul Supriyo (Asansol), Manoj Tiwari (North