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Kalaburagi, May 24: Senior Congress leader M Mallikarjuna Kharge today said that AICC Working Committee will meet in Delhi tomorrow to find the reasons for party's debacle in the Lok Sabha polls and find steps to build the party to bring back the past glory. Kharge, who suffered a humiliating defeat in his home constituency Kalaburagi yesterday, addressing a press conference here on Friday, said

New Delhi, May 24: After a humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha polls, top Congress leaders will deliberate on party losses at a meeting of the working committee slated on Saturday where party chief Rahul Gandhi is likely to offer his resignation. According to sources, the party has convened a meeting of the Congress Working Committee, the highest decision making body of the party at 11 AM tomorrow

New Delhi, May 24: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday thanked world leaders and personalities as their congratulatory messages kept pouring in after he led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a super-sized victory for a second term in office. Thanking American vice president Mike Pence, who congratulated him saying he looked forward to working with India, Modi said it was a victory of democracy which

Gandhinagar, May 24: Not a single student from as many as 63 schools managed to clear the Secondary School Certificate examinations conducted by the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, the results of which were declared here on Tuesday. The overall pass percentage was 66.97 per cent, slightly lower than 67.5 per cent of last year. The exams were held in March. In a press

New Delhi, May 24: Twitter India on Thursday said conversations around the 2019 Lok Sabha elections grew 600 per cent from 2014 to reach 396 million tweets between January 1 and May 23. During the course of the six weeks of the election from April 11 till May 19, national security emerged as the most talked about election-related topic on Twitter, followed by religion, jobs and employment

New Delhi, May 24: He combined BJP's core Hindutva plank with a hardcore nationalism agenda and set up a huge ground-level organisational setup to execute it the BJP's 'Chanakya' Amit Shah blazed such a trail that the 'Modi Wave 2.0' surpassed its own original avatar with a much bigger saffron surge. Known as an astute strategist whose non-political interests range from playing chess and watching

New Delhi, May 24: Sealing its phenomenal electoral victory, the Narendra Modi-led BJP crossed the 300 mark and was leading in one seat as counting for votes for 542 Lok Sabha seats neared its end on Friday. The massive exercise began Thursday morning with early trends establishing the BJP's conclusive lead, making it evident that Modi's message, packaging muscular nationalism, security and Hindu

Srinagar, May 24: Zakir Musa, the so-called chief of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, a group affiliated with al-Qaida, was believed to have been killed in an encounter with security forces on Thursday in a village in Tral of South Kashmir, officials said. They said two terrorists were killed in the encounter but there was no confirmation about their identities as the bodies were yet to be retrieved

Bhopal, May 23: BJP's Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Pragya Singh Thakur, who recently kicked up a row with some of her remarks and was observing silence for 63 hours as a mark of penance, Thursday broke the vow to express her elation over poll trends which showed her in an unassailable lead. Thakur expressed happiness over the Lok Sabha poll trends which showed her ahead of her nearest Congress

New Delhi, May 23: Decisions taken by Rahul Gandhi led to divisions within the opposition, CPI national secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan said on Thursday and asserted that the policies of the Congress scion opened the doors for Narendra Modi's victory. Riding on a massive Modi wave sweeping through most parts of India, the BJP was set to return to power Thursday as it led in 292 seats while the