Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers and supporters have started with the celebrations in Lucknow as trends favour the party. If the early leads sustain, the BJP may be on the way to retaining power in the state.(HT Photo/Deepak Gupta)
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was leading on 250 out of 403 seats at 10.30 pm and top party leaders were expected to hold a press conference later in the day.(HT Photo/Deepak Gupta)
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers dance and celebrate with saffron-coloured gulal.(HT Photo/Deepak Gupta)
The Samajwadi Party on Thursday said initial trends in Uttar Pradesh were "not authentic" and asked its workers to stay put at local assembly election offices till the counting of votes ends.(HT Photo/Deepak Gupta)
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"These trends are not authentic, a perception is being made that BJP is winning so that the morale of the workers can be broken and results manipulated dishonestly after 3 PM. It is an appeal to the workers to stay put at the spot till the last results!” the Samajwadi Party's media cell tweeted in Hindi.(HT Photo/Deepak Gupta)
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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane
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White smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel where 133 cardinals are gathering on the second day of the conclave to elect a successor to late Pope Francis, at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025 . (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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A damaged portion of Bilal Mosque is seen after it was hit by an Indian strike in Muzaffarabad. The selection of targets was done based on extensive intelligence, primarily due to Pakistan's changing strategies aimed at concealing terror camps.
