Advani wins Gandhinagar by over 100,000 votesGANDHINAGAR - BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani won the Gandhinagar seat by over 100,000 votes, almost half his 2004 victory margin of 217,138 votes. Naveen Patnaik wins from Hinjili in OrissaBHUBANESWAR - Biju Janata Dal (BJD) head and Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has won from the Hinjili assembly constituency of Ganjam district, an official said Saturday. NCP will support Manmohan Singh as PM: PawarMUMBAI - Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has said his party will support Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister. Chidambaram loses in Sivaganga, seeks repollSIVAGANGA - Congress leader and Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has lost the elections in Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga parliamentary constituency to his All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) rival Raja Kannappan. Congress Party, allies celebrate their poll victoryKOLKATA/HYDERABAD/SRINAGAR/CHANDIGARH - The Congress Party and its allies across India are celebrating, as its party candidates continue to emerge victorious in the 2009 general elections, giving the UPA a second consecutive term in office. Gloom at BJP office, leaders and workers stay awayNEW DELHI - The otherwise bustling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Ashoka Road office here wore a deserted look Saturday, with both leaders and party workers staying away as election results came in signalling its defeat. Vajpayee’s niece, Jogi’s wife lose in ChhattisgarhRAIPUR - Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Karuna Shukla, the niece of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, lost the polls in Chhattisgarh as did the Congress’ star candidate in the state Renu Jogi, wife of former chief minister Ajit Jogi. Congress-NCP combine ahead in MaharashtraMUMBAI - The Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) combine won from one constituency and was leading in another 25 in Maharashtra by early Saturday afternoon as the counting progressed. Congress poised to win 204 Lok Sabha seatsNEW DELHI - In a dream run, the Congress was poised to win 204 Lok Sabha seats, having been declared victors in 14 constituencies and leading in 190 others Saturday, according to official figures. It was an election the Congress could not lose (News Analysis)The Congress’s success in the general election can be attributed to the fact that it was a political confrontation devoid of the kind of emotional content which its principal opponent, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), customarily exploits on such occasions. Indian markets expected to rejoice surprise electoral outcomeNEW DELHI - Hoping for continuity in governance, stock markets in India are expected to rejoice Monday as the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) looked all set to return to power, after election results Saturday handed huge unexpected gains for the Congress-led coalition. BJP ahead in Gujarat with 15 seatsGANDHINAGAR - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won 15 of Gujarat’s 26 Lok Sabha seats while the Congress had got eight as the final round of counting began Saturday afternoon. Sandeep Dikshit wins from East DelhiNEW DELHI - Congress candidate Sandeep Dikshit Saturday won from the East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency by a margin of over 200,000 votes. Congress workers celebrate outside CPI-M office in DelhiNEW DELHI - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) headquarters in the national capital wore a deserted look when the counting of votes began Saturday. But suddenly it erupted in celebrations - not by the party workers but Congress supporters! NC-Congress leading in four Kashmir seatsSRINAGAR - The National Conference-Congress combine was leading in four of the six Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir till 2 p.m. Saturday. Sonia, Rahul congratulate Manmohan SinghNEW DELHI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Saturday rang up Prime Minister Manmohan Singh congratulating him as India’s ruling coalition was on its way to victory in the Lok Sabha elections. Virbhadra Singh wins Himachal’s Mandi seatSHIMLA - Virbhadra Singh of the Congress has won Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi parliamentary constituency, a poll official said Saturday. Will not support UPA or NDA government, says victorious Naveen PatnaikBHUBANESWAR - After his party’s tremendous showing at the polls, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) head and Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said Saturday he would not support either a United Progressive Alliance or a National Democratic Alliance government at the centre. Jaffer Sharief defeated in Bangalore NorthBANGALORE - Congress veteran and former railways minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief lost to Congressman-turned Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee D.B. Chandre Gowda in Bangalore North by 59,700 votes. Congress takes huge early lead in RajasthanJAIPUR - The Congress party took early leads in 20 seats out of 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in Rajasthan Saturday, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was leading in the other five. Advani wants politicians to be idealisticNEW DELHI/BHUBANESHWAR - Bharatiya Janata Party Prime Ministerial candidate L K Advani has said politics had to rise above personal agenda. No NDA Government at any cost, says KaratNEW DELHI - CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat has said the Left’s post-poll strategy would centre around preventing the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance from coming to power. Yucca Mountain, the nation’s nuclear waste repository, gets the ax but is still fundedLAS VEGAS — These days, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid prefers nothing so much as a one-word description for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository long planned for his state: dead. BJP confident of sweeping polls in JharkhandRANCHI - Notwithstanding the various exit poll predictions, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is confident of sweeping the Lok Sabha elections in Jharkhand. Efforts on to form Government in NepalKATHMANDU - A meeting of the Nepali Congress (NC), the CPN-UML and the Nepal Sadbhawana Party is underway here today as an attempt to the new government formation. Congress to emerge as single largest party: Rajasthan bookiesJAIPUR - Whatever may be the outcome of the Lok Sabha elections, the punters are betting on Congress emerging as the single largest party, according to bookies in Rajasthan. Senators to weigh Democrats’ plans to offer government health insurance to middle classWASHINGTON — Look out Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealthcare. Senators are meeting behind closed doors to consider whether the federal government should jump into the health insurance business. Anxiety grips investors ahead of election verdictMUMBAI - With counting of votes for the ensuing national elections due May 16, and no party or group seen emerging clear winner, Indian stock markets are once again edgy, in a repeat of volatile trading witnessed during the similar situations in the past. The Karnataka jinx - win the state, lose the centreBANGALORE - While everyone awaits the Lok Sabha poll results on May 16, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have an additional reason to worry over how they perform in Karnataka, for the party which bagged the highest number of the state’s 28 seats in the last two polls lost power in New Delhi. Malaysian Indian students owe $16.95 mn in unpaid loansKUALA LUMPUR - Education loan defaulters owe the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) about 60 million ringgit ($16.95 million) and the party-owned Maju Institute of Educational Development (MIED) now wants to come down hard on them. |
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