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  UP election results: Don't single out Rahul Gandhi for loss, says Congress

  National | March 11, 2017 11:57 IST

  With trends showing a clear majority for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh and a severe drubbing for the SP-Congress alliance limiting it below the 100-mark figure, the Congress party today jumped into the defence of

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  UP election results: Verdict against politics of appeasement and discrimination, says Yogi Adityanath

  National | March 11, 2017 12:01 IST

  Reacting to the verdict, party MP from Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath said that people in Uttar Pradesh have rejected the politics of appeasement and discrimination.

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  UP election results: BJP forges ahead in over 280 constituencies

  National | March 11, 2017 11:15 IST

  BJP has stolen an early March over its rivals forging ahead in nearly constituencies, leaving rivals SP-Congress combine and the BSP far behind going by trends available during the first three hours of counting.

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  UP election results: BJP credits PM Modi for party win, workers erupt in joy

  National | March 11, 2017 11:21 IST

  Overjoyed BJP workers, leaders and supporters hugged each other, broke into brief jigs and raised victory slogans at the party headquarters in the national capital as well as the Lucknow office.

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  Election results 2017: BJP sweeps UP, Uttarakhand; Parliamentary Board to discuss probable CMs today

  National | March 12, 2017 13:14 IST

  The BJP today registered a stunning victory in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, trampling a fragmented opposition that had hoped the demonetisation exercise would have chipped away at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity.

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  UP election results: Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav submits resignation to Governor Ram Naik

  National | March 11, 2017 20:05 IST

  UP election results live: Early trends in counting for UP Assembly polls show that BJP is heading for majority in politically-crucial state.

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  UP Assembly results 2017: A history of political instability in Uttar Pradesh

  National | March 11, 2017 7:40 IST

  Uttar Pradesh has witnessed long phases of instability and fractured mandate in the past.

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  Exit polls will again prove wrong; SP-Congress will win: Lalu

  National | March 11, 2017 7:40 IST

  Trashing exit poll projections on likely winners of assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Friday said the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance will form the next government in the state.

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  UP Assembly results: Victory processions banned in Muzaffarnagar

  National | March 11, 2017 7:31 IST

  Muzaffarnagar district authorities have banned victory processions to maintain law and order after the results of the UP Assembly polls are announced tomorrow.

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  Amar Singh ‘kicked out’ of Samajwadi Party, can’t win even at booth-level: Ram Gopal Yadav

  National | March 10, 2017 21:39 IST

  Launching a scathing attack on expelled party leader Amar Singh, Samajwadi Party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav today said that he was “kicked out” of the party and that he cannot win even from a single polling booth.

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  Ram Gopal Yadav to blame if SP loses UP Assembly elections, says Amar Singh

  National | March 11, 2017 7:19 IST

  Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh has said that party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav will be responsible if the Akhilesh Yadav-led government is ousted from the state.

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  Rahul Gandhi rejects UP exit polls, says they proved wrong in Bihar

  National | March 10, 2017 13:53 IST

  Rejecting the exit poll results for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today said that the actual results will be entirely different.

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  UP polls: Dimple ‘bhabhi’ adds colour to SP campaign

  National | March 08, 2017 14:15 IST

  Dimple Yadav, the wife of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Samajwadi Party MP from Kannauj Lok Sabha constituency, emerged as a major crowd puller for her party in the UP Assembly elections this year.

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  Polling for final phase ends; 60 pc turnout in UP, Manipur records 86 pc

  National | March 08, 2017 18:30 IST

  Polling in 40 Uttar Pradesh Assembly seats spread across seven districts and 22 constituencies in Manipur began at 7 am amid tight security.

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  BJP deliberately decided against projecting CM face for UP polls: Amit Shah

  National | March 07, 2017 12:56 IST

  Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah today said that the party’s decision not to project any chief ministerial face for the UP Assembly elections was deliberate.

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  Pentagon accuses Iranian vessels of harassing US Navy ship

  World | March 07, 2017 12:57 IST

  The Pentagon has accused Iranian vessels of coming dangerously close to a US Navy surveillance ship in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend.

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  Varun Gandhi was 'too busy' to campaign for UP Assembly polls, says Maneka Gandhi

  National | March 07, 2017 13:04 IST

  Union minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday said that her son Varun Gandhi could not campaign for BJP in UP Assembly polls because he was “too busy” with other priorities.

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  UP polls: Modi visits Garhwa Ghat Ashram, Shastri's ancestral home on last day of campaigning

  National | March 07, 2017 13:08 IST

  PM Modi has been canvassing for three days in Varanasi which elected him to Lok Sabha.

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  Modi has grown old and tired, SP-cong will give UP a govt of youth: Rahul Gandhi

  National | March 07, 2017 13:09 IST

  Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi went all out to attack Narendra Modi and said the Prime Minister has grown old and must be feeling tired.

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  High-pitched campaign over for seven-phased UP Assembly elections

  National | March 07, 2017 13:10 IST

  40 seats spread over seven eastern districts, including five in Varanasi, will go to polls on March 8, bringing curtains down on the two month-long exercise staggered in seven phases.