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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...

Photo credit: PTI In a major political development in the Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2026, chief minister M K Stalin has lost his Kolathur constituency, his long-time political stronghold, to V S Babu of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), with the party heading towards its maiden electoral performance.According to Election Commission data after the 22nd...

NEW DELHI: Kerala’s compass dial has swung again, after a decade, away from the Left Democratic Front. This has left the Left with no fortress standing in the country. This is the first time in several decades that India has no communist government in any state. UDF has won over 95 seats, according to the...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose symbolism as much as celebration when he arrived at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on Monday, hours after the party’s sweeping victory in West Bengal.Known for using attire to signal political messages, the Prime Minister appeared in a traditional Bengali ensemble, aligning his appearance with the state...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hailed Bharatiya Janata Party’s historic victory in West Bengal, Assam and Puducherry.While addressing a huge crowd of workers at BJP headquarters in Delhi, PM Modi congratulated party workers and said that “they have made the lotus bloom.”Here are the top quotes from his speech Today, I respectfully...

NEW DELHI: The tradition of exit polls is not new to election seasons, and once again it came into sharp focus this time when five legislative assemblies went to the polls in April, including West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and the Union Territory of Puducherry. Based on surveys, sampling and field assessments, pollsters attempted...

Representative images Counting trends across West Bengal on Monday triggered celebrations among BJP workers as the party moved ahead in key contests, with supporters marking the occasion through food-based celebrations at counting centres and party offices.As trends (at the time of writing this article) from the Election Commission of India showed the BJP having won/leading...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is firing back at AI ‘doomsayers’ – essentially CEOs and top leadership of companies – calling predictions of a massive job wipeout “ridiculous” and urging fellow tech leaders to drop their “God complex”. In a recent interview with the Special Competitive Studies Project (via Fortune), Huang argued that while warnings about...

NEW DELHI: As results take clearer shape on Monday, the 2026 assembly elections are delivering a political jolt few had fully anticipated. From a cinematic upheaval in Tamil Nadu to a decisive saffron surge in West Bengal, the verdict is throwing up headline-grabbing shocks and unsettling long-held assumptions about who holds power and how.What is...