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Tripura Chief Minister Prof. Dr. Manik Saha today said that one of the goals of the present government is to foster the development of Tripura by improving the socio-economic conditions of all sections in the state.

One Bangladeshi smuggler shot dead while a BSF personnel injured after the security forces tried to prevent a smuggling attempt on Monday last night at Salpokhar under Sepahijala district.

The Tripura Police has arrested eight persons in connection with the communal violence that took place on Sunday following forceful collection of subscriptions for Durga Puja in Kadamtala under North Tripura District.

As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to form government in Haryana for record third time in a row, after a high-decibel campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one is reminded of how the leader, the BJP’s state election in-charge in 1999 continues to remain the flag-bearer of the party's ethos and values.

The cheerful and upbeat atmosphere in Congress, in the run-up to the Haryana Assembly elections, turned into a nightmare on Tuesday as the election results gave a clear mandate and absolute majority to the BJP, despite the latter facing a three-time anti-incumbency.

Is it the Congress's overconfidence or its failure to stitch an alliance with its previous partner Aam Aadmi Party that led to its humiliating defeat in Haryana that resulted in the return of the BJP for the third, record consecutive term.

People in Haryana saw through the lies and propaganda of the Congress party after it could hoodwink people of Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh and Telangana, said Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao.

As the BJP seems set to return to power in Haryana for the third consecutive term, the Congress, which was projected to win by every exit poll, will be searching for answers to find where it fell short.

From the 28 Assembly seats in the 2014 elections to three seats in the 2024 polls, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Mehbooba Mufti has been decimated in J&K.

Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Tuesday expressed satisfaction with the results of the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) elections and said that this was the best performance of the BJP so far.

Former Tripura Chief Minister and the BJP Haryana in-charge Biplab Kumar Deb on Tuesday gave credit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the party’s third successive victory in Haryana.

The Congress has decided to approach the Election Commission of India (ECI) with regard to what it describes as irregularities in the electoral process in Haryana. Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh expressed disbelief at the election results, claiming they contradicted public sentiment and ground realities.

Vajpayee had taken Farooq Abdullah to the Pokhran-II nuclear explosion site within days of the test explosions in Rajasthan on May 11, 1998. Farooq was the only Chief Minister of the country to accompany the then PM to Pokhran-II.

The worst day was for the Mufti dynasty which managed to win only three seats out of the 90 Assembly constituencies, and its, newest family member to enter politics also lost the election.

Zakir Naik, the fugitive Islamic preacher, continues to receive massive flak for making controversial statements during his ongoing tour of Pakistan with even some of his hardcore followers insisting that Islamabad has made a "big mistake" by inviting him to the country, that too as a 'state guest'.

While Congress chief Tariq Hameed Karra secured 18,933 votes to win the Central Shalateng seat in the Srinagar district by a huge margin of 14,395 votes, defeating his nearest Independent rival, Muhammad Irfan Shah, who got only 4,538 votes, his BJP counterpart Ravinder Raina was not that lucky.

Buoyed with the Haryana elections results, the Union Tribal Affairs minister and senior BJP leader Jual Oram on Tuesday exuded confidence that BJP will register a win in the upcoming elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand.

Congress social media incharge Supriya Shrinate on Tuesday said that the Grand Old Party is clearly getting a majority in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) but in Haryana, the real picture is still unclear.

BJP national spokesperson Syed Zafar Islam on Tuesday dismissed Congress leader Jairam Ramesh's claims of slow updation of voting details on the Election Commission's website and remarked that they do this whenever they lose.

The firebrand BJP leader was seeking to retain his stronghold in the 2024 elections with an even bigger vote share. In 2014, Raina won the seat by defeating Choudhary by a margin of 9,503 votes. Raina had secured 37,374 votes polling a 49.51 per cent vote share.

The total gross enrollments under the Atal Pension Yojana (APY) have crossed 7 crore, with an enrolment of over 56 lakh in the current fiscal (FY25) to date, according to the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) on Tuesday.

BJP's Shagun Parihar, whom Prime Minister Narendra Modi termed the "living example of the BJP's resolve to finish terrorism" in Jammu and Kashmir, on Tuesday won the Kishtwar seat.

Olympian wrestler Vinesh Phogat on Tuesday won her debut election, getting elected from Julana seat in Jind district even as her Congress faced an uphill task in the Haryana Assembly elections.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Laos this week once again underlines the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries being a significant pillar of India's Act East policy and key partners of New Delhi's Indo-Pacific Vision strongly backed by Prime Minister's Security and Growth for All in the Region (SAGAR) initiative.

The Aam Aadmi Party, which came a cropper in the Haryana elections, has got some solace as it opened its account in Jammu and Kashmir for the first time.