Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party will form the government in Indian capital Delhi after 27 years as it scripted an impressive election victory. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won or is leading in 47 seats in the 70-member legislative assembly,

Delhi’s voters dismissed the AAP from office, signaling approval of the BJP’s relentless targeting of the opposition party.

India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party has named a woman as the top government official in the state of New Delhi, which includes the country’s capital.

Votes are set to be counted in India's capital Delhi, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is hoping to stage a comeback after 27 years. Most exit polls, following the vote on Wednesday,

Narendra Modi’s BJP finally takes Delhi, India’s political heart, which until now has remained out of its reach.

Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party is expected to win 48 of the 70-member legislative assembly, where it was leading, according to the Election Commission of India’s website. BJP is reclaiming Delhi after almost three decades.

Former party student leader Rekha Gupta, 50, was named to the post of New Delhi chief minister, according to an announcement by the Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad. The party won the most seats in the high-stakes New Delhi polls earlier this month for the first time in 27 years.

Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party was projected to win a majority in the 70-member assembly of India's capital against the Aam Aadmi Party, or AAP, led by Arvind Kejriwal, which runs

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rekha Gupta, greets her supporters as she arrives to take oath as Delhi state chief minister during a swearing in ceremony at Ramlila Maidan in New

Narendra Modi’s party has claimed victory in state polls in Delhi, regaining control of the capital’s regional government for the first time in almost three decades and buoying the prime minister ahead of a meeting with Donald Trump next week.

The Indian government has brought the troubled north-eastern state of Manipur under direct federal rule days after Chief Minister N Biren Singh resigned. Singh, from India's governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),