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Jana Sena Party chief and actor Pawan Kalyan and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) General Secretary Nara Lokesh are among 81 fresh faces in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly.

India's unemployment rate decreased to 3.1 per cent in 2023, down from 7 per cent in 2022 amid robust government policies, a report showed on Thursday.

BJP’s ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) leader Atul Bora on Thursday said that becoming the Prime Minister of the country for the third consecutive term was an uphill task and Narendra Modi has achieved success.

As the BJP-led NDA is all set to form a government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the third consecutive time, one of China's leading English-language newspapers said on Thursday that this is an "opportune moment to reset relations" between the two neighbouring countries.

The rally was held under the joint initiative of the Department of Transport and Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limited, with the financial support of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency of the Union Ministry of Power.

On the issue, Superintendent of Police, Traffic Police, Manik Das, said that on May 25th, the Traffic Police, Agartala Municipal Corporation and Tripura Police held a meeting and decided on a joint action plan to make the city congestion-free.

All pre-poll allies including TDP chief N. Chandrababu Naidu and JD-U leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar along with other leaders of the alliance participated in discussions to finalise the modalities for the NDA government's formation for the third consecutive term.

President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday dissolved the 17th Lok Sabha with immediate effect on the advice of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Cabinet. 

The calculations of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister, DK Shivakumar, who were hoping to recreate the magic of the 2023 Assembly election results, went awry.

Before leaving for Delhi to attend the opposition INDIA bloc meeting on Wednesday, Trinamool Congress’ general secretary and three-time party Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee said collective decisions needed to be taken to steer ahead and there was no kingmaker.

Fadnavis' statement came in the wake of BJP's dismal performance in the Lok Sabha elections as its tally reduced to nine from 23 in 2019.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday and tendered his resignation along with the Council of Ministers.

After the dismal performance of the Left in the Lok Sabha elections, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that introspection will be done.

After a heavy drubbing in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu, the AIADMK leadership will have to consider bringing back senior leaders who were expelled from the party, as the cadres are asking for this. 

Making a special speech in the Lankan Parliament, Premadasa emphasised that India, with its status as the world's most populous country and a significant global economic and military power, deserves this recognition.

PM Modi launched the campaign with the planting of a Peepal sapling at the Buddha Jayanti Park in the national capital.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday tendered his resignation to Governor Raghubar Das following the party’s defeat in the Assembly elections.

In line with the rest of the country, the Congress put up an improved performance in the Lok Sabha elections in the eight northeastern states, which are now dominated by the BJP and its allies.  

In the prestigious Arunachal West seat, Union Minister Rijiju, who secured 2,05,417 votes, defeated state Congress President and party nominee Nabam Tuki by a margin of 1,00,738 votes.

BJP candidate and former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, who secured a record 8,81,341 votes, won the Tripura West Lok Sabha seat, defeating state Congress President and party nominee Ashish Kumar Saha by a margin of 6,11,578 votes.

Giving his first reactions on the impressive numbers achieved by his party and the INDIA bloc partners in the Lok Sabha elections, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday that it was a fight to save the Constitution and the Constitutional institutions from the persistent onslaught of the ruling party.

The BJP and its ally partners are leading on 11 Lok Sabha seats in Assam. The BJP is leading on nine seats while its allies Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) are leading on each seat.

Ruling BJP candidate Dipak Majumder on Tuesday won the by-election to the Ramnagar Assembly seat in Tripura defeating his CPI(M) opponent Ratan Das by a margin of 18,014 votes.

In 2014, PM Modi got 56.37 per cent of the votes and his winning margin was 3.72 lakh. He had defeated Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal, who was his main rival.

Union Minister Smriti Irani is set to lose Amethi, where she is trailing against Kishori Lal Sharma of the Congress by over 1.45 lakh votes. The shock results were most unexpected since the minister and her campaigners considered Sharma a ‘small fry’.