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Party Looks To Stay On The Up In UP, Get Upper Hand In Punjab Even before the last votes were cast in this round of assembly polls, PM Narendra Modi and BJP president Nitin Nabin were in Uttar Pradesh on April 28. They were mobilising popular support and attacking the opposition for defeating the Centre’s...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130810160,imgsize-516578,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-54.jpg" alt="Middle East crisis: Three Indians injured after drone strike sparks fire at Fujairah oil zone in UAE" title=" Three Indians injured after drone strike sparks fire at Fujairah oil zone in UAE ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Three Indians injured after drone strike sparks fire at Fujairah oil zone in UAE NEW DELHI: Three Indian...

Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickelton NEW DELHI: Rohit Sharma scored 84 on his return from injury and Ryan Rickelton made 83 as Mumbai Indians beat Lucknow Super Giants by six wickets in Mumbai in their IPL 2026 match on Monday.The two openers added 143 runs for the first wicket, their third century stand in the...

Representative image JAMMU: A 21-year-old married woman from Gujarat’s Surat district was found dead under suspicious circumstances in the basement of an under-construction hotel in Jammu’s Satwari area on Monday. Police launched a probe.“The deceased, Kiran Kumari, was a native of Haldhru in Kamrej, Surat. She was found unresponsive on the basement floor of the...

Sonam Wangchuk SRINAGAR: Environmentalist and Leh Apex Body (LAB) member Sonam Wangchuk and LAB co-chairman Tsering Dorje Lakrook Monday said they oppose the proposed joint venture between the Ladakh Power Development Department (LPDD) and the REC Power Development Corporation LTD (RECPDCL) for the power sector in Ladakh, alleging the tie-up fails to safeguard interests of...

The 2026 West Bengal assembly verdict is, on the surface, a straightforward story of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP )victory at the expense of the Trinamool Congress (TMC). However, beneath that dominant arc lies a more fragmented sub-plot: the TMC’s weakening hold over its traditional social coalitions has not only aided the BJP’s consolidation in several...

Lotus blooms in West Bengal Khela hobe …For the last 5 years, this was the slogan Mamata Banerjee used to taunt her rivals. But this time, ‘khela hoye geche’ and not in the way the Trinamool Congress (TMC) imagined. The unthinkable has happened, and “Lotus has bloomed in West Bengal.”The result has redrawn Bengal’s political...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130807731,imgsize-983969,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/bjp-candidates-for-next-bengal-cm.jpg" alt="West Bengal election results 2026: BJP sweeps Mamata's citadel – who's in CM race?" title=" . ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> NEW DELHI: The BJP appears set to form the next government in West Bengal after leading on 207 of the state’s 294 assembly seats, leaving the Trinamool Congress trailing at 80. With this decisive...

Suvendu Adhikari defeats Mamata Banerjee NEW DELHI: The back and forth at high-stakes Bhabanipur assembly constituency ended up with historic mandate in favour of BJP‘s heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari, who defeated chief minister Mamata Banerjee by 15,105 votes.Mamata’s defeat in Bhabanipur, considered to be her bastion with deep hold of TMC’s cadre, resonnates with the larger...

NEW DELHI: After dominating almost all the Hindi-speaking states in the north, the Bharatiya Janata Party wanted to test southern waters — a region where the party has historically struggled to gain ground.It planned expansion in Tamil Nadu, which has been under the control of two Dravidian giants for decades — the DMK and the...