Politics

'Modi's depiction of opponents as favouring Muslims, insulting cows fell flat in Bihar': NYT

'Modi's cow politics was put out to pasture', Pakistan's Dawn said.

Nov 9, 2015

Myanmar election result: Aung San Suu Kyi's party 'wins 70% seats' as military-backed USDP accepts defeat

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy is expected to win.

Nov 9, 2015

Bihar election results 2015: Complete list of winning candidates from NDA, Grand Alliance

Check out complete list of winning candidates in the Bihar assembly elections 2015.

Nov 9, 2015

Grand Alliance win a victory for Bihar's self-respect: CM Nitish Kumar

Nitish Kumar is poised to take the oath for a third straight time as Bihar chief minister.

Nov 8, 2015

Bihar poll outcome to drive markets, increase chances of US rate hike

Some analysts have predicted that a BJP loss will force the markets to correct by 2% to 2.5%.

Nov 8, 2015

Lalu Prasad's son: Development a priority of new Bihar govt

Tejaswi Yadav also thanks the people of Bihar for voting the Grand Alliance into power.

Nov 8, 2015

Majority of Thais approve single-ballot voting, says opinion poll

39.02 percent of the Thais in the sample still preferred to cast two ballots,

Nov 8, 2015

Nitish Kumar is present and continuing Chief Minister, says Lalu Prasad

Lalu says a campaign against Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be built nationwide.

Nov 8, 2015

Success in Bihar is a victory against RSS, BJP and Narendra Modi, says Rahul Gandhi

It is a message against dividing Hindus and Muslims, Rahul Gandhi said.

Nov 8, 2015

Nitish-Lalu victory in Bihar: Narendra Modi, Rajnath, Kejriwal, Mamta congratulate Mahagathbandhan

Narendra Modi, Rajnath Singh, Aravind Kejriwal, Mamta Banerjee, Ram Vilas Paswan and others congratulated Nitish-Lalu for victory in Bihar.

Nov 8, 2015

Chinese Communist Party newspaper warns against Taiwan independence

It risks overturning the "boat of peace" and must be stopped, said the People's Daily.

Nov 8, 2015

Myanmar: Voting ends peacefully in historic first free election in 25 years

There was a sense of excitement among voters as they went to polling stations.

Nov 8, 2015

Govt notifies OROP for ex-servicemen, who say it is 'unacceptable'

Retired armed forces personnel may seek legal action against proposal to revise pension every five years.

Nov 8, 2015

Bihar election results 2015: Hat-trick for Nitish Kumar as Grand Alliance wins two-thirds majority

BJP leaders go into a huddle to analyse the reasons for the debacle.

Nov 8, 2015

Congress biggest force fighting against RSS, says Rahul Gandhi

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi takes on the RSS and its ideology once again.

Nov 7, 2015