Politics

The Congress returned to power in Himachal Pradesh after five years, defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party by a handsome margin on Thursday.

As many as 33.49 lakh voters on November 4 exercised their franchise and sealed the fate of 459 candidates.

Sonia Gandhi spoke with Sushil Kumar Shinde, Shiela Dikshit and Mamta Sharma and told them to ensure that all possible measures should be taken so that such incidents do not occur again.

The Manmohan model has shown the world that the country can achieve over nine per cent growth rate, said Chidambaram.

Since 1977, no party has ever been voted back to power in Himachal Pradesh. The BJP leader is hoping to change that.

The chief minister said he was happy working for the people of Bihar.

Congress has a slight edge over BJP in terms of vote percentage, but the same cannot be said when it comes to the seats.

After getting the bail, the lawyer of the Zee editors said that they had been wrongly framed in the case by the police.

The LJP chief said that Modi's victory would also put Nitish in a fix on the issue of reviewing his party's alliance with the BJP.

External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said the ties between India and China can impact the region.

Party vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi alleged that the SP and BSP are hand-in-glove with the Congress.

For the second phase, BJP has fielded candidates on all 95 seats going to the poll, whereas Congress is contesting on 92 and GPP on 84 seats.

Manmohan Singh on Saturday promised to address concerns on GAAR and taxation of the IT sector.

This effectively means that even minority foreign investments which are less than 49 per cent will have to seek the approval of FIPB.

Referring to the opposition to FDI in retail, the PM had said that those opposing such moves are constrained by outdated ideologies.

Sonia Gandhi chose the occasion to highlight the central government's Direct Benefit Transfer system.