Elections to the Maharashtra Legislative Council: BJP candidates win, but MVA suffers from cross-voting in Sena and Congress.

Politics
June 21, 2022, 11:27 a.m.

The BJP received 133 votes, up from 106 votes in the Assembly. The additional 27 votes from other parties and Independents cleared the door for its win over MVA, which had a better chance of attaining the required number of votes.

Gopal Gandhi also declines to be the opposition's presidential candidate at the last minute.

Politics
June 21, 2022, 11:19 a.m.

"May India elect a President deserving of the office envisioned by Rajaji as the last governor general and inaugurated by Dr. Rajendra Prasad as our first President,"

PM Narendra Modi has set a timetable of 40 months for the 'double engine' government to decongest Bengaluru traffic.

Politics
June 21, 2022, 10:57 a.m.

Chief minister Basavaraj Bommai remarked earlier in the event that the projects announced by Modi will increase Karnataka's GSDP (gross state domestic product) by 2%.