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Odisha assembly poll victory: Naveen Patnaik to form govt for fifth time

Patnaik fought from Hinji and Bijepur constituency and in both of them he is defeating BJP candidates with huge margins.

LS Polls: NOTA gets more votes than 4 candidates in Baramulla, 14 in Jammu

Nearly 8,000 voters opted for None of the Above (NOTA) in Baramulla, while 7,472 votes were polled by NOTA in Udhampur

AIADMK Govt to survive, but DMK sweeps LS, wins majority seats in bypolls

Political analysts have said that AIADMK MLAs may not be willing to switch their allegiance to the DMK, which will help Palaniswami to complete its term

Amit Shah could reap his reward as home minister from BJP election victory

Shah's reward could be a top govt post, probably the federal home, or interior, ministry, bringing vast powers over security forces and domestic intelligence, said political analyst Nilanjan Mukhopadh

'Dump the dynasty': Rahul Gandhi faces backlash after election drubbing

The drubbing was so bad that Gandhi himself lost the traditional family seat in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh

India gives thumbs up to Modi; time to deliver on economic growth, Pakistan

Immediate challenges ahead are stuttering economy, increasing unemployment, farm distress and tense ties with old foe Pakistan.

'Greatest electoral triumph': Modi crushes Opposition, swears by democracy

BJP returns with bigger mandate than 2014; Congress decimated in all big states; Rahul Gandhi loses Amethi

A snapshot of market winners and losers from Lok Sabha elections 2019

Winners include cement companies, pipes, tiles and sanitary-ware manufacturers, capital goods and infrastructure companies

LS polls 2019: A $1.4 trillion spending push tops Modi 2.0 agenda

For exporters, the BJP has promised measures to promote trade and increase the share of manufacturing in the economy.

Elections & markets: Challenges for Modi 2.0 and key investment themes

Market veterans have called for improvement in ease of doing business and policies to encourage FDI flows to invest in long-gestation infrastructure projects and recapitalise financial firms.

Jobs to infra: India Inc hopes for economic revival under NDA 2.0

Anil Agarwal, chairman of Vedanta, said there is a need for simplification of policies and tackling critical issues

Question time again for Rahul, Cong: Who's to blame for yet another defeat?

Apart from Rahul Gandhi himself losing from Amethi, the party's entire top leadership in Karnataka (including Mallikarjuna Kharge and senior leaders like B K Hariprasad) was defeated

BJP wins absolute majority; cruising to bag more than 300 seats: EC

The BJP is all set to surpass its 2014 performance when it won 282 seats.

Split voting to vault BJP's Lok Sabha score, but Patnaik holds fort

Riding on the split voting phenomenon, the BJP is seemingly narrowing the gap with the redoubtable BJD, which had whitewashed Opposition in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, bagging 20 of the 21 seats

Lok Sabha elections: Maharashtra voters print a photocopy of 2014

The biggest surprise in the state was the defeat of Ashok Chavan, president of the Congress state unit

Tejasvi Surya to Hibi Eden: Young stars who made their mark with huge wins

In West Bengal, Trinamool Congress's Mimi Chakraborty, an actor, registered a big victory from the Jadavpur seat with 688,000 votes against BJP's Anupam Hazra

Twitter sees record election-related activity with 396 million tweets

Between 11 April and 19 May, national security emerged as the most talked about election-related topic on Twitter

Story in numbers: Modi fares better than Manmohan in controlling inflation

Exports in the last year of the NDA government rose just 5.3 per cent compared to the terminal year of UPA-2

Sweets & slogans: Historic mandate sparks jubilation at BJP headquarters

It was clear that the promises made during campaigning, and the core issues on which the party's campaign was built, was still resonating with the supporters

Chanakya Niti: How Amit Shah delivered Narendra Modi a second Lok Sabha win

Amit Shah has kept BJP's poll machinery well oiled. He may now be rewarded with a Cabinet post