Bengaluru: BJP candidate from Bengaluru Central P C Mohan won the constituency as he defeated Congress candidate Rizwan Arshad and Independent Candidate Prakash Raj.
Haveri: The BJP on Thursday retained the Haveri seat and defeated Congress party with a margin of 1,40,882 votes to retain the constituency.
Bengaluru: Karnataka Congress president Dinesh Gundu Rao Thursday congratulated the BJP for its "resounding victory" and wished Prime Minister Narendra Modi the "very best".
Sehore: A local Congress leader died of cardiac arrest at a counting center at Sehore in Madhya Pradesh Thursday.
Mandya: Independent candidate and wife of former Congress leader Sumalatha Ambareesh won the Lok Sabha election by defeating Cong-JD(S) alliance candidate Nikhil Kumaraswamy.
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who seemed headed for a win from Thiruvananthapuram, said he feels like a batsman who has scored a century while his team has lost.
Amaravati: With the YSR Congress all set to wrest power in Andhra Pradesh, the YSRC Legislature Party will meet here on May 25 to formally elect its chief Jaganmohan Reddy as leader, party sources said Thursday.
Dubai: Two Indian men have arrived in the UAE on cycles pedalling 3,800-kilometer across three countries, three months after they set out on a cycling adventure to visit Makkah in Saudi Arabia.
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada BJP candidate and sitting MP Nalin Kumar Kateel registered a thumping victory by defeating Congress candidate Mithun Rai by a margin of over 2.69 lakh votes.
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday became the first world leader to congratulate his counterpart Narendra Modi for scripting an "impressive victory" in the general elections and vowed to strengthen their "great friendship" as well as bilateral ties.