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Surprising show by Congress in Maharashtra
It claims 17 of the 48 seats in the State while the NCP gets eight

Congress wins all seven Delhi seats
NEW DELHI: The Congress trounced its arch rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party, in all the seven Lok Sabha from Delhi. The party that registered a record third consecutive win in the Delhi Assembly elections winning 43 of the 70 Assembly seats ...

Nitish Kumar: a vote for development
His hopes for bargaining power put paid by UPA’s show

BJP concedes defeat gracefully
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party has graciously accepted defeat in the 2009 Lok Sabha election, saying it is “the best mandate to rule in favour of the UPA [United Progressive Alliance].” A short statement, issued after ...

Fall of LTTE: threat to top leaders perceived
Tigers blame India for their defeat: intelligence agencies

Setback to Congress, AGP; gains for BJP in Assam
Guwahati: The ruling Congress and the major Opposition party, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), suffered setbacks in Assam while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the debutant Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF) emerged stronger in the State ...

BJD’s clean sweep in Orissa
BJP comes a cropper in Lok Sabha elections

Modi magic fails to work
GANDHINAGAR: The “Modi magic” did not work for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. With the results of one seat withheld, the BJP tally in the State is only 15, just one more than what it got in ...

A storm of change in West Bengal: Mamata
She dedicates victory to State’s Maa, Mati and Manush

Conspiracy: Mayawati
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday blamed the Samajwadi Party, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party for plotting the defeat of the Bahujan Samajwadi Party candidates by transferring their votes to the candidates ...

BJP sweeps Chhattisgarh again
NEW DELHI: Chhattisgarh is the only State where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the Lok Sabha elections for a second consecutive term, winning 10 of the 11 seats. Chief Minister Raman Singh led the party to victory in the Lok ...

Opposition breaks into Left citadel
KOLKATA: In a dramatic reversal of fortunes, the Trinamool Congress-Congress electoral combine brushed past the ruling Left Front to win a major share of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, considered a citadel of the Left for more than ...

“Not allying with Congress a big mistake”
Patna: After a dismal show in the Lok Sabha elections, Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad said on Saturday not contesting the polls in alliance with the Congress was a “big mistake” and the people of Bihar had ...

Amar Singh: we will wait for invitation
NEW DELHI: Congratulating Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the United Progressive Alliance’s victory in the Lok Sabha elections, Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Saturday said the party would ...

Congress sweep in Haryana
CHANDIGARH: The Congress on Saturday virtually made a clean sweep in Haryana by winning nine out of 10 Lok Sabha seats while the former Chief Minister and Haryana Janhit Congress founder Bhajan Lal won the prestigious Hisar seat by only a ...

First confirmed A(H1N1) flu case in the country
HYDERABAD: The country’s first case of influenza A(H1N1) flu virus was confirmed on Saturday when a 23-year-old male, who came to Hyderabad from New York on May 13, tested positive. The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), ...

No more a tall order
Wolfram Alpha will throw up answers for tough questions in an easy format

Microsoft promises less complexity in Windows 7
KOCHI: The launch of the final version of Windows 7 is around the corner, with Microsoft making available for public download the Release Candidate (RC) of the operating system (OS) earlier this month. The OS is now “entering the ...

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