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18 hours ago · The Hindi language film industry (Bollywood) is the largest sector representing 43% of box office revenue, followed by the South Indian Telugu and Tamil film industries which represent 36% combined. Television broadcasting began in India in 1959 as a state-run medium of communication and expanded slowly for more than two decades.
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18 hours ago · Elections. The National Democratic Alliance ( NDA) (Hindi: Rāṣṭrīya Loktāntrik Gaṭhabandhan) is a right-wing conservative Indian political alliance led by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). [2] It was founded in 1998 and currently controls the government of India as well as the government of 17 Indian states and one Union ...
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- 1998
18 hours ago · Aladdin is a 1992 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is based on the Arabic folktale "Aladdin" from One Thousand and One Nights. The film was produced and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements from a screenplay they cowrote with the writing team ...
- $28 million
- November 11, 1992
- John Musker, Ron Clements
- Alan Menken
18 hours ago · Bangladesh. The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire on the Indian subcontinent which existed from the early 4th century CE to early 6th century CE. At its zenith, from approximately 319 to 467 CE, it covered much of the Indian subcontinent. [6] This period has been considered as the Golden Age of India by historians, [7] although this ...
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The election dates for the parliamentary elections were: 1. 20 April - 141 constituencies 2. 26 April - 137 constituencies 3. 5 May - 83 constituencies 4. 10 May - 182 constituencies Counting began simultaneously on 13 May. Over 370 million of the 675 million eligible citizens voted, with election violence claiming 48 lives, less than half the numb...
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had recommended premature dissolution of the 13th Lok Sabha (in accordance with a provision of the Constitution) to pave the way for early elections apparently in view of the recent good showing of the BJP in the Assembly elections in four states.[citation needed]The two "major parties" in India are the BJP (led ...
In these elections, compared to all the Lok Sabha elections of the 1990s, the battle was more of a head-to-head contest in the sense that there was no viable third front alternative. Largely the contest was between BJP and its allies on one hand and Congress and its allies on the other. The situation did, however, show large regional differences. T...
Most analysts believed the NDA would win the elections. This assessment was also supported by opinion polls. The economy had shown steady growth in the last few months and the disinvestment of government owned production units (a continuation of India's liberalisation policies initiated in the early 1990s) had been on track. The Foreign Exchange Re...
Results by alliances
Votes and seats of the major parties are compared with those won in the 1999 election
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See separate article, List of Members of the 14th Lok Sabha
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There are a maximum of 545 members of Parliament: 543 elected, and two may be nominated by the President to represent the Anglo-Indian community. Repolling was ordered in four constituencies due to irregularities. The results in the remaining constituencies were as follows (parties recognised by the Election Commission as national parties are in italics, and regional or state parties in Roman font): 1. Congress and allies: 259 1.1. Indian National Congress: 145 1.2. Samajwadi Party: 36 1.3. R...
Though pre-poll predictions were for an overwhelming majority for the BJP, the exit polls (immediately after the elections and before the counting began) predicted a hung parliament. However, even the exit polls could only indicate the general trend and nowhere close to the final figures. There is also the general perception that as soon as the BJP...
The rout of the ruling parties in the states of Tamil Nadu and Keralain the general elections led to calls for the dissolution of the governments of these states. The stock market (Bombay Stock Exchange) fell in the week prior to the announcement of the results due to fears of an unstable coalition. As soon as counting began, however, it became cle...
13 May - The Congress and allies win a plurality of seats in the Lok Sabha (219 seats against 188 for the BJP).13 May - Counting of votes in the parliamentary elections begins.11 May - Congress wins the Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh by 2/3 majority.10 May - The fourth and final phase of elections comes to an end. Results will come out for 542 of the 543 parliament seats with elections to be held again in Chhapra.Shastri, Sandeep, K.C. Suri & Yogendra Yadav (2009) (ed.). Electoral Politics in Indian States : Lok Sabha Elections in 2004 and Beyond, New Delhi : Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-806329-6
- 671,487,930
- 28.30%, 114 seats
- UPA
- Sonia Gandhi
18 hours ago · Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea (and Cyprus) to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west.
18 hours ago · Indonesian ( Bahasa Indonesia; [baˈhasa indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. [8] It is a standardized variety of Malay, [9] an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries. Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world, with over ...
