Kolkatta, 5/5: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Tuesday held a press conference following the drubbing her party, the All India Trinamool Congress has received in the recently concluded assembly polls for the state. In the polls, BJP has got 207 seats, TMC won in 80 seats in the house of 294. Majority mark is 148…
Chennai, 5/5: The 2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election has concluded with a major shift in the State’s political landscape. Actor-politician Vijay’s Tamizhaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) has emerged as the single-largest party, effectively shattering the decades-old bipolar dominance of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). The electoral verdict…
Chennai,5/5:Outgoing Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Tuesday conceded defeat, while also thanking the people of Tamil and Nadu and the DMK workers for their efforts. The ruling DMK could manage to secure only 59 constituencies in the 234-seat Tamil Nadu assembly. Stalin himself faced defeat to TVK’s VS Babu in his bastion Kolathur…
New Delhi, 5/5: The Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday condemned the attack on United Arab Emirates’ Fujairah, which injured three Indian nationals. The attack on Fujairah that resulted in injury to three Indian nationals is unacceptable. We call for immediate cessation of these hostilities and the targeting of civilian infrastructure and innocent civilians,” the…
New Delhi, 4/5: Mamata Banerjee, the giant killer of Jadavpur — who entered electoral politics in 1984 by defeating the CPM veteran Somnath Chaterjee in 1984 Lok Sabha elections from Bhabanipur — was defeated once again by her protégé turned challenger Suvendu Adhikari by 15,105 votes. In the 1984 polls, held in the backdrop of…
Chennai, 4/5:With just 12 seats short of a simple majority, TVK leader C Joseph Vijay is likely to get support from Congress and other DMK allies to form the next government in Tamil Nadu. While Congress won five seats, VCK, CPI (M), CPI, DMDK, and IUML each won two seats, totaling 10 seats – these…
Dispur, 4/5: Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma thanked voters for handing the NDA a sweeping mandate in the state assembly elections on Monday, calling it a reflection of the government’s performance and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s focus on development in the Northeast. Addressing a press conference at the BJP state headquarters, Sarma described the result…
Thiruvananthapuram, 4/5: Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) is returning to power in Kerala after ten years with a historic victory in 102 seats in the 140 member assembly, presenting a worst ever defeat for the ruling CPM-led Left Democratic Front in the lone state where the left-front has been in power. The LDF that won…
Kolkatta, 4/5The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has continued to maintain a significant margin in leads over the ruling All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), as vote counting progresses for 293 seats in West Bengal. As the trends continued to pour in, TMC leaders termed the situation “fishy”, and urged caution in making claims of a landslide…
Chennai, 2/5: Actor-politician C Joseph Vijay was on the course of breaking the Dravidian duopoly of DMK and AIADMK on Monday with his party, Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam, surging ahead in over 100 of the 234 assembly seats. The AIADMK was emerging as a distant second with about 70 seats, while the ruling DMK alliance was…
