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NEW DELHI: Bengal and Assam poll results have thrown up a challenge for the Muslim community, which has been pushed into a political whirlpool post-2014 by BJP’s ‘communal card’ to polarise the majority community, coupled with controversial measures like delimitation and SIR.BJP’s success in damping the largest minority community in Assam has followed the 2023 … Read more

NEW DELHI: For the first time since 1977, India will have no Communist-governed state as Kerala voters oust the CPM-led LDF and hand a victory to the Congress-led UDF.The loss presents the Left its biggest challenge – maintaining its relevance at the national level in the face of declining influence.The UDF rode an anti-incumbency wave … Read more

Change reaction in 3 states; Assam keeps Biswas in HimantaIt was a day of dramatic upheavals. BJP finally managed to win the state that had virtually become its final frontier over the past 10 years, Tamil superstar Vijay made a stunning political debut and looks set to be the next chief minister of Tamil Nadu, … Read more

NEW DELHI: Rejecting an attempt by SpiceJet and its promoter Ajay Singh to cite the ongoing West Asia crisis as a ground to seek review of an earlier court order to deposit Rs 144 crore in connection with its legal dispute with media baron Kalanithi Maran and Kal Airways, Delhi high court Monday dismissed the … Read more

NEW DELHI: “Counting will begin in the morning of May 4. Ballot box will open at 8 am, first round will be over at 9 and second round at 10. Counting will be over at 1 pm and it will be ta ta, good-bye to didi.” Thus spoke Union home minister Amit Shah at one … Read more

Not shipshape: Poor campaign planning and failure to find an answer to BJP’s identity politics have been a hindrance for Congress NEW DELHI: In cricketing analogy, Congress got off the mark with Kerala. The party notched its first victory since winning Telangana in Dec 2023, and finally showed some resilience after its commendable show in … Read more

Kolkata: Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee’s residence in Kolkata’s Kalighat and her office in Nabanna were placed under an unprecedented security lockdown on Monday, even as Bengal’s chief secretary Dushyant Nariala instructed all departmental heads to ensure no official documents are removed, damaged or copied without authorisation.Long before the final results of the assembly polls were … Read more

Arunava Sen of the All India Trinamool Congress defeats Pramanshu Rana of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bagnan, winning by a margin of 11,316 votes after all 20 rounds of counting.Bagnan in Howrah district has been represented by Arunava Sen (Raja) of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. He … Read more

In West Bengal’s Alipurduars constituency, BJP’s Paritosh Das defeated TMC’s Suman Kanjilal by 70,420 votes. Das got 1,43,242 votes while Kanjilal got 72,822 votes.Alipurduars is a general (unreserved) constituency in Alipurduar district of West Bengal. In 2026, the candidates include Suman Kanjilal of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Paritosh Das of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), … Read more

In Srivaikuntam, G Saravanan (TVK) won the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly election by 1,186 votes against S Oorvashi Amirtharaj (INC), while SP Shanmuganathan contested from the AIADMK.Srivaikuntam is a competitive constituency in Thoothukkudi district and has seen representation from both the Dravidian parties and the Congress.Since the 1977 Assembly elections, the seat has alternated evenly … Read more