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Lucknow, Feb 11: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won all three MLC seats in Kanpur, Gorakhpur, and Bareilly. While the polling for the first phase of Assembly Elections 2017 was underway in Uttar Pradesh, the results of the Legislative Council have given the BJP a reason to cheer up. The polling for the same was held on February 03. Allahabad and Kanpur also went for Teachers MLC elections

Lucknow, Feb 11: Taking a swipe at Narendra Modi for his "raincoat in bathroom" barb at Manmohan Singh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said the Prime Minister was more interested in "peeping into bathrooms of people". The Congress Vice President also said that the Prime Minister will get a "jolt" once the results of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections are out. "Modi likes to read janampatri

Lucknow, Feb 11: Amid tight security, polling began this morning for the first of the seven phases of the high-stake Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections with voters queueing up to cast their ballots in 73 constituencies spread over 15 districts of western UP. A total of 2.60 crore voters, including over 1.17 crore women and 1,508 belonging to third gender category are eligible to cast their ballots

Chennai, Feb 10: Hours after he was expelled from AIADMK, pro-Panneerselvam leader E Madusudanan today claimed he infact had sacked party interim general secretary V K Sasikala and continued to be the party's Presidium Chairman. "Before that (his sacking), I expelled her (Sasikala) from the party," he told reporters tonight when asked about his removal from all party posts, including Presidium

Chennai, Feb 10: The Madras High Court today sought the Tamil Nadu government's response to allegations that AIADMK MLAs were being illegally detained in a resort near here and 20 of them were on a fast. Referring to claims by the counsel for habeas corpus petitioners that the 20 MLAs were on a fast protesting their illegal detention, a division bench of justices C T Selvam and T Mathivanan said

Chennai, Feb 10: Sending a strong message to her detractors, AIADMK General Secretary V K Sasikala today sacked party Presidium Chairman E Madusudanan from the primary membership, a day after he switched over to the rebel camp led by Chief Minister O Panneerselvam. Madusudanan had been removed from all posts besides the primary membership for going against the party principles and bringing

Amaravati, Feb 10: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has said more women leaders would make the world safer as they can ensure promoting deeper human values. "Scientists now say women are more sensitive of others' suffering. There are 200 nations on this planet and more women leaders would bring more safer world," the Buddhist monk observed, addressing the inaugural session of National Women's

Chennai, Feb 10: Upset over party MLAs slipping through their fingers, the Sasikala camp is apparently in touch with the Congress for support to form the government should any 'emergency' arise. The Congress high command on Thursday summoned Tamil Nadu Congress chief S Thirunavukkarasar and legislature party leader K Ramasamy to New Delhi on Friday for consultations. In the backdrop of allegations

Chennai, Feb 9: Caretaker Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam today held a brief meeting with Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao amid the political uncertainty in the state and said that "good things will happen" but did not elaborate. "We had a detailed discussion with Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao about all that is happening in Tamil Nadu... For sure, good thing will happen, dharma will win," he told

Chennai, Feb 9: The O Panneerselvam camp today received a major boost with the AIADMK Presidium Chairman E Madusudanan switching over to the Chief Minister's side, saying he wanted to "safeguard" the party. "To protect AIADMK, everybody should join hands with OPS (Panneerselvam)," Madusudanan said, adding that he did not want the party to get into the hands of a single family. He was flanked by