Narendra Modi will be sworn in on Monday as India's prime minister at a glittering ceremony that will be as much a show of his determination to be a key player on the global stage as a celebration of his stunning election victory.
After a long election process that lasted more than a month, India's 16th general elections came to an end on 16 May. Here's the final tally of the parties
Making his farewell televised address to the nation, he said the judgement delivered by the people in the elections should be respected by all and wished the incoming government every success.<br />
NASSCOM has prepared a five point agenda for the new Indian government to help its IT companies contribute in the development agenda within the country and to enable them in increasing their global foot print.
With Dalal Street riding high on the prospect of an imminent Modi sarkaar here's a look at what reforms the BJP-led NDA government wishes to bring about with Information Technology and what the ICT sector can look forward to if it comes to power.
India needs about 19 million low-cost homes - roughly defined as costing Rs 10 lakh ($16,700) and below - to shelter an urban population expected to nearly double to 600 million by 2030 from 2011.<br />
This was the most expensive Lok Sabha elections entailing a cost of Rs 3426 crore to the national exchequer, a substantial jump of 131 per cent over the expenses incurred in 2009.
Altering Google search results can pose a real threat to democracy as it has a major impact on the voting preferences of undecided voters and could swing a close election, according to a new landmark study analysing the just concluded Lok Sabha polls in India.
The overall voting percentage in all the nine phases of polling taken together is 66.38 percent, the highest in the history of Lok Sabha elections and the figure is likley to increase further after taking repolling and postal ballot into account, said Election Commission Director General Akshay Rout in New Delhi on Monday.<br />
According to data from the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), average assets of the 396 re-contesting Members of Parliament between the Lok Sabha elections of 2009 and the ongoing one jumped a stunning 145 percent.
The outcome of their performance will only be known on May 16 but scores of 16th Lok Sabha aspirants are already winners as they are sitting on hefty returns courtesy their investments in blue-chip stocks with Indian stock market surging to a new high.
Modi clarified the issue regarding different land rates granted to Adani and other industrialists like Tata, saying prices differ between Kutch, a desert land where the former is based, and Ahmedabad, a thriving city where the Tata plant is.
While the impact of these social media on the elections could be known only after May 16 when the results are declared or could be a matter of another academic research, all the three major players have seen substantial increase in their India traffic and usage.<br />
In detailed responses to an e-mail interview with IANS, Modi said a BJP-led NDA government led by him will be "result-oriented", will not hesitate in taking decisions, will work day and night and will be a "truly representative, transparent and sensitive government".<br />
We present the top five candidates with the highest declared assets from the three main parties in the spotlight -- the Congress, the Bharatiya Janta Party and Aam Aadmi Party.
Every third candidate in the fray for Lok Sabha polls in the six seats of Jammu and Kashmir, where polling will end on May 7, is a 'crorepati' with the richest of them having declared property worth nearly Rs 100 crore.
Casting his vote in his home state of Gujarat, the leader whose pro-business policies have delighted investors brandished his party's lotus symbol and taunted Congress heavyweights for shying away from the fight.
As the largest democratic exercise in the world nears the end, as many as 13.83 crore Indians will today vote at 17,330 polling booths to choose 89 Lok Sabha candidates across seven states and two Union territories.<br />
Infosys chairman Narayana Murthy may call himself 'apolitical', but when it comes to choosing a Prime Minister for the country, Murthy knows what he exactly wants.
A bunch of Indians, many of them students working part-time as taxi drivers in Australia, have donated Rs 1,87,000 to the Aam Aadmi Party's Punjab candidates, according to information provided on the website of the party.
The Hindustan Times today reports that the Mumbai Jewellers' Association is offering citizens who voted on 24 April a 15-20 percent discount on jewellery making charges. The offer began on 25 April and runs until the auspicious day of Akshaya Tritiya, 2 May. <br />
Kohli, a local businessman, was welcomed by Badal and BJP's candidate from Amritsar Arun Jaitley