With Friday’s Lok Sabha election results, Trinamool Congress has scripted a massive win since its inception in 1998. It certainly calls for celebration but amidst the festivities there are concerns galore. BJP’s increased vote
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A friend has raised a question about selection committees for the appointment of statutory authorities under various laws that require the Leader of the Opposition (LOP) in the Lok Sabha to be a member. With the Indian National Congress`s (INC) ab
With the historic victory of Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha polls, investors’ hopes have soared and the stock market too is on a rise. The IT industry, which seems to be hopeful, believes that Modi’s “good governance” roadm
On the morning of May 17, prime minister Manmohan Singh addressed the nation for the last time before handing his resignation to president Pranab Mukherjee. While his brief far
Tarun Gogoi may have started the season of taking “full responsibility” for the Congress party. With the party’s performance taking a nosedive in the state, the Assam chief minister announced his resignation pretty early into the
Tamil Nadu threw a surprise this election with the M Karunanidhi-led DMK’s resounding defeat. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) is wiped out from the state as the party is seen with the Congress even though they broke ties officially, say
The `Modi Tsunami` seems to have inundated majority of the political parties, including the national parties. Going by the declared results and the trends of those leading till 5:00 pm, only five parties including the Congress look like making it hom
With the ruling Congress-NCP completely decimated, and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena in Maharashtra, The Narendra Modi may have given a fresh lease of life to BJP’s longtime partner in the state, the Shiv Sena, for more reasons than one
The election results are almost out. And looking at the numbers and trends so far, one can safely say that the pro-development poll plank of the BJP has done the magic for the party which is headed for a simple majority. The markets celebrated it
Almost a year after Bihar CM Nitish Kumar broke the alliance with BJP in the state, he is facing the soup. On the afternoon of May 16, it’s becoming clear that JD (U) will get anywhere between two to five seats – a hopeless decline fro
The Trinamool Congress might have had a victory bigger than even the party itself imagines, with the Left Front, especially CPI(M), Mamata Banerjee’s biggest nemesis decimated, but the party has suddenly got another problem on its hands. And
It has finally happened. Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi will shortly take over as India`s prime minister. Given the landslide victory he has scored across the country, he has emerged as the tallest leader whose stature could easily dwarf eve
There is no doubt that the Narendra Modi wave has been an overriding factor across the country in this general election. Yet, like tributaries from different directions meeting a river and increasing the intensity of its flow, in ea
Delhi is no exception to the ‘Modi wave’, and on seven of its seats the BJP candidates are comfortably leading. A small surprise is that on all seven it is the AAP that is in the number two slot, pushing the Congress to a distant third
As BJP’s Narendra Modi gets all ready to occupy 7 Race Course Road with his party registering a thumping victory, Twitter has been bombarded with tweets congratulating Modi and his party. Trending topics regarding the NaMo wave and t
Has caste ceased to be a factor in India? The early trends on the result day of the general elections would indicate so, as many are inferring. The decimation of the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, and the likely defe
Amid speculations of a Narendra Modi-led NDA government, the BSE Sensex and the NSE Nifty have soared to new all-time highs of 25,014.85 and 7,459.40 points respectively. As the counting of votes for 543 constituencies has begun, it
In an unprecedented move, the medical council of India (MCI) has decided to invalidate all its decisions taken between 2010 and 2013 – the period when the board of governors appointed by the government was at the helm. The three-year
The legal aid arm of the consumer complaints redressal wing of the Consumer Guidance Society of India (CGSI) receives plenty of grievances on a weekly basis. To address the issues of customers, CGSI is now organising a series of camps. The
