Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar lost the Mandrem assembly seat by a margin of nearly 5,000 votes to Congress rival Dayanand Sopte. ....

Political parties need to shift their strategy from criticism to positive alternate if they want to beat the BJP, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Saturday. ....

The voter in Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP is set to form a government, has rejected the "politics of appeasement", party leader Yogi Adityanath said on Saturday. ....

Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh of the Congress party won in Thoubal constituency, defeating rights activist Irom Sharmila, who got fewer than 100 votes. ....

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Saturday said party Vice President Rahul Gandhi should not be singled out for the party's poor showing in Uttar Pradesh. ....

Manipur seemed to be headed for a hung assembly with the ruling Congress and the BJP locked in a neck and neck fight to emerge as the single largest party, overall trends in the vote count revealed on Saturday. ....

The BJP cruised towards victory on Saturday in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand while the Congress brutally brushed aside the AAP in Punjab as officials counted the millions of votes polled in assembly polls. The Congress led in Manipur while it was neck and neck in Goa with the BJP. ....

Goa appeared headed for a hung assembly on Saturday with the Congress winning four, and BJP winning on one seats and leading in four and seven other seats respectively. ....

The Congress was on Saturday headed for a two-third majority in the 117-seat Punjab assembly, with veteran Amarinder Singh set to return as Chief Minister of the border state. ....

After a long break, Himachal Pradesh capital Shimla on Friday witnessed a snowfall, dipping the mercury by several notches and bringing cheer to the hoteliers. ....

The day has come finally and it remains to be seen which political party will have a colurful Holi celebrating the festival with debonair ....

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Friday said police is probing the death of Lance Naik Roy Mathew, who was found dead in an army barrack days afer he featured in a sting video criticizing the 'Sahayak' system in the army. ....

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea for quashing a government notification to confer Padma Vibhushan in 2016 on late Dhirubhai Ambani, the founder of Reliance Industries Ltd. ....

The Congress, Left and Trinamool Congress walked out of the Lok Sabha on Friday over the issue of hike in cooking gas price. ....

Justice C.S. Karnan of the Calcutta High Court on Friday said the Supreme Court-issued bailable warrant against him in a contempt case was unconstitutional. ....

Eight members of the AIADMK on Friday walked out of the Lok Sabha after their adjournment notice demanding a discussion on the death of former Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa was disallowed. ....

Senior separatist leaders in the Kashmir Valley were placed under house arrest and heavy deployment of security forces was made to prevent protests after Friday's congregational prayers in Srinagar. ....

The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed a bill to increase maternity leave to 26 weeks from 12 weeks at present. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday greeted the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on its 48th Raising Day and hailed it for securing the countrys key establishments. ....

It will be a hung assembly in Uttar Pradesh with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerging closest to the threshold of 202 seats in the 403-seat assembly, exit polls forecast on Thursday. ....