Politics

India awaits the verdict as counting in all the 543 seats to decide the fate 8,202 candidates has started.

This is the first time after 1984 that a party alone has made it to the half-way mark. In 1984, the Congress under Rajiv Gandhi had secured majority on its own.

The Election Commission said the counting exercise to be held at 989 counting centres is likely to be completed by 4 pm.

The BJP allies are likely to get 6.5 per cent vote share and the Congress allies are likely to get 3.5 per cent vote share across India.

The business tycoon also defended Manmohan Singh over the decline of the economy during the tenure of UPA-II.

Munde assessed the party's performance in 24 seats it contested in the recently-concluded Lok Sabha elections.

Speculation is rife about talks between BJP and AIDMK and BJD leaders for their possible support to NDA.

"It is the 'mantra' of my life to play any role given by my party with commitment," said Modi.

A sprawling bungalow at 3, Motilal Nehru Road, will now be the new abode of Manmohan Singh.

Eighteen seats in Uttar Pradesh, six in Bihar and seventeen in West Bengal will go to vote in the ninth phase of polls on Monday.

Over nine crore voters are expected to decide the fate of 606 candidates, including Narendra Modi, Arvind Kejriwal and Mulayam Singh Yadav.

During the 5-week long Lok Sabha elections, the electorate was made a witness to a never before heard vocabulary.

Ramdev had stirred a controversy last month by stating that, "Rahul goes to Dalits' houses for honeymoons and picnics."

CBI informed the court that they had done correction in the list of documents filed along with the charge sheet.

As his 196th birth anniversary is being observed, it is fitting that his theories are re-evaluated for a changing global economic scenario.

The AAP complaint had sought cancellation of Modi's candidature from 2012 assembly and 2014 Lok Sabha polls in connection with his marital status.