The ruling Congress Party has announced the names of 56 candidates and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said it would contest in about 50 seats in the elections to the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly to be held on October 13, 2009.

Mohan Bhagwat, the Sarsanghchalak (supreme head) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has met Atal Bihari Vaypayee, retired leader of the Bharatiya Janata Parry (BJP) and former Prime Minister.

Ah, tricky question. We have only four more hours to go for counting to begin, and what is the relevance of such a question at this point? Nothing much. The interesting thing is that exit polls by TV channels have predicted that the UPA would get higher number of seats in ...

Murli Manohar Joshi, senior BJP leader and the human resources minister during the last NDA regime under Vajpayee, filed his nomination from Varanasi.