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  Sealing Indo-Bangla border top priority for my govt: Sarbananda Sonowal

  May 20, 2016 17:12 IST

  Sarbanand Sonwal, set to take over as the new Chief Minister of Assam, today said that sealing the Indo-Bangladesh border to check illegal infiltration will be top priority of his government.

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  Govt approves ordinance to keep state boards out of NEET ambit this year

  May 20, 2016 13:10 IST

  The Central government has approved an ordinance to defer the implementation of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for medical and dental courses for state governments and their affiliated institutions for this academic year.

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  Oomen Chandy resigns as Kerala CM

  May 20, 2016 12:07 IST

  Thiruvananthapuram: Oomen Chandy on Friday stepped down as the chief minister of Kerala. Chandy handed over his resignation to Kerala Governor P.Sathasivam. The CPI-M led LDF swept the assembly polls by securing 91 seats

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  After Congress’s poor show in Assembly polls, Digvijaya Singh pitches for ‘major surgery’ within party

  May 20, 2016 11:58 IST

  Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has made a pitch for a ‘major surgery’ in the organisation in the wake of the disappointing results in the Assembly polls in four states including loss of power in Assam and Kerala.

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  ‘Congress Mukta Bharat’ becoming a reality; party shrinks to 6 pc of India, lost 6 states since 2014 LS polls

  May 20, 2016 17:15 IST

  The results of polls in Assam, Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu showed that decline of Congress since the Lok Sabha elections has not ebbed. When the Congress got a drubbing in the Lok Sabha in 2014, it had ruled in 13 states. But now it is down to

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  After poor show in Assembly polls, Congress hints at Rahul Gandhi's elevation

  May 20, 2016 9:12 IST

  Suffering a debacle in the current round of Assembly elections, Congress hinted that party vice-president Rahul Gandhi could be elevated as party president.

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  Congress loses more ground, faces tough task for 2019 polls

  May 20, 2016 8:59 IST

  The defeat in assembly polls to four major states on Thursday has come as a big disappointment to Congress and a dampener to its ambitions to replace the Narendra Modi government in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The results could delay elevation of Congr

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  DMK chief Karunanidhi breaks his own record of victory margin

  May 20, 2016 7:27 IST

  DMK president M Karunanidhi's election to the Tamil Nadu assembly for the 13th time turned out to be a special one with the 93-year old leader clocking the highest victory margin of 68,366.

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  PM Modi to visit Iran for talks on economic, trade ties

  May 19, 2016 22:20 IST

  New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make an official visit to Iran on May 22 in a bid to spruce up bilateral ties with Iran by signing major economic cooperation agreements, the Iranian

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  Fiji PM meets Narendra Modi, discusses bilateral issues

  May 19, 2016 22:16 IST

  New Delhi: Fiji Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi here today during the course of which the two leaders discussed a number of bilateral issues. Modi expressed his condolences for

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  Pranab Mukherjee to go on four-day visit to China

  May 19, 2016 22:12 IST

  New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee will embark on a four-day visit to China on May 24, it was officially announced today. This will be the first presidential visit from India to China in six years

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  TMC won because of Mamata's clean image: BJP

  May 19, 2016 21:58 IST

  The BJP today paid a compliment to Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee saying that her party's landslide victory in the Assembly election in West Bengal was because of her "clean image".

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  Smart City: Government to announce names of 14 more cities soon

  May 19, 2016 21:05 IST

  Names of 14 more new cities would be announced soon under the flagship 'Smart City Mission' which will receive the first tranche of funding

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  Meet Himanta Biswa Sharma, the maverick politician who spelled doom for Congress in Assam

  May 19, 2016 19:18 IST

  The 47-year-old has once again remained true to his reputation of a man who has the ability to sense the nerve of the electorate.

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  Assembly poll results: BJP expands footprint but big question mark over Rahul Gandhi’s leadership

  May 19, 2016 18:36 IST

  The results of 5 state Assemblies have come as a rude shock to Indian National Congress, the grand old party of India.

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  Kerala: One CPM worker killed in blast at LDF's victory rally

  May 19, 2016 18:23 IST

  Kannur: One worker of the CPI(M) worker died and four others were injured in a bomb blast that took place during a celebratory rally Pinarayi, Kannur district of Kerala after the LDF’s convincing win in

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  The Kanhaiya effect? Two JNU students emerge victorious in the Kerala assembly elections

  May 19, 2016 16:59 IST

  Thiruvananthapuram: Amid the LDF wave that has swept across Kerala lies the story of two victorious candidates who had a unique reason to have made their mark in the Assembly elections. Both these candidates are students at Delhi’s much-discussed Jaw

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  Post-victory, Mamata signals support to govt on GST, maintains ‘ideological differences’ with BJP

  May 19, 2016 15:44 IST

  Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who is all set for a comeback in West Bengal on the back of a landslide victory, today signalled that her party could extend support to the Centre on the long-pending Goods and Services Tax bill.

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  Kerala results a setback, UDF to discuss reasons for unexpected rout: Oommen Chandy

  May 19, 2016 15:06 IST

  Kottayam:Stunned by the shocking defeat in the Assembly polls, Kerala Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Oommen Chandy today said the results were "a setback" and the party and UDF headed by it would discuss

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  Palair Assembly bypoll: TRS wrests seat from Congress

  May 19, 2016 14:51 IST

  Hyderabad: The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti today continued its winning spree as its candidate Tummala Nageswara Rao won the Palair Assembly bypoll by a margin of 45,682 votes and wrested the seat from Congress.

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  O Rajagopal creates history, becomes first BJP MLA in Kerala

  May 19, 2016 14:43 IST

  O Rajagopal, the 86-year-old political veteran, created history on Thursday by opening the BJP's account in the Kerala assembly when he won the Nemom seat, defeating two-time sitting legislator V. Sivankutty.

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  Tamil Nadu verdict historic, marks end of DMK's family rule: Jayalalithaa

  May 19, 2016 14:36 IST

  Claiming victory as trends gave her party a clear majority in the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly, AIADMK supremo and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today termed the people's verdict as historic as against the "family rule" of DMK.

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  Gujarat bypoll: BJP wrests Talala Assembly seat from Congress

  May 19, 2016 14:17 IST

  Ahmedabad: BJP candidate Govind Parmar today won the by-election to Talala Assembly constituency in Gir-Somnath district by defeating Congress candidate Bhagwanji Barad by over 2,000 votes. The seat was earlier held by Congress. Parmar defeated

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  Puducherry: Congress-DMK combine set to form government in the state

  May 19, 2016 16:00 IST

  Puducherry: The Congress-DMK alliance is set to depose the sitting CM N Rangaswamy for the 30-member Assembly in Puducherry. INC-DMK combine has won 11 seats and leading in other five seats while AINRC has won

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  ‘I am a very less important person’: Mamata says on PM ambitions after landslide victory

  May 19, 2016 14:00 IST

  Riding on the development plank, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress today registered a landslide victory in the state assembly polls.

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  Oomen Chandy goes down battling graft charges against his government

  May 19, 2016 13:57 IST

  Thiruvananthapuram: A popular leader, Oommen Chandy’s image failed to redeem the Congress-led UDF after its tenure was tainted by allegations of corruption and sleaze as Kerala continued with the tradition of rotation of parties, giving

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  Mamata Banerjee lashes out at opposition after sweeping West Bengal poll

  May 19, 2016 13:45 IST

  Kolkata: With TMC set for a second term with an enhanced majority, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said coming together of CPI(M) and Congress was a “blunder” for both the parties and accused

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  Assam: Tarun Gogoi fails to weave magic to bring Congress back to power

  May 19, 2016 13:17 IST

  Battling anti-incumbency and age, Tarun Gogoi failed to weave his magic to bring Congress back to power after creating history earlier with a hat trick in the last elections.