Kejriwal lies just like Modi, but is more cunning, says Rahul Gandhi

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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi taking a boat ride on the Yamuna river. | Photo Credit: ANI Congress leader Rahul Gandhi intensified his attack on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday, saying the former Delhi Chief Minister “lies just like [Prime Minister] Narendra Modi but is probably more cunning and sophisticated than the … Read more

BJP slams Kejriwal over Yamuna river pollution, scams

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah adressing a Jan Sabha in support of party candidate at Rohini, in New Delhi on January 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Senior BJP leaders on Thursday (January 30, 2025) hit out at the Aam Aadmi Party over issues of pollution in the Yamuna River and corruption and … Read more

Sweep out BJP’s dishonest politics, says SP chief Akhilesh Yadav during a campaign in support of AAP

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AAP Convenor Arvind Kejriwal along with Former CM of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav during a roadshow ahead of Delhi Election at Kirari in New Delhi on January 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap Standing atop a mini truck in Kirari in northwest Delhi, Samajwadi Party Chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh … Read more

CEC indulging in politics, wants job after retirement, says Kejriwal

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AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal with Delhi Chief Minister and party leader Atishi, and party leader Sanjay Singh during a press conference, in New Delhi, on January 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday (January 30, 2025) alleged that the Election Commission of India was favouring the Bharatiya … Read more

Connecting the dots in the Kyiv visit

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In a historical and widely publicised meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, drawing significant attention from academics and journalists worldwide. While India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) emphasised that the meeting was not intended as an effort at mediation, the timing and the nature of this visit raise … Read more

Lok Sabha elections: Madras High Court orders notice to Dayanidhi Maran in case challenging his election from Chennai Central

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File photo of Dayanidhi Maran | Photo Credit: S.R. Raghunathan The Madras High Court on Friday (August 30, 2024) ordered notice, returnable by September 27, 2024, to MP Dayanidhi Maran on an election petition filed by M.L. Ravi of the Desiya Makkal Sakthi Katchi (DMSK), challenging his election from the Chennai Central parliamentary constituency in … Read more

AAP announces poll manifesto for Delhi elections; promises 15 ‘Kejriwal’s guarantees’

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AAP leaders during the launch of their party’s manifesto for the Delhi Assembly elections, on January 27, 2025, in Delhi. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday announced the party’s 15-point manifesto for the Delhi Assembly election, ‘Kejriwal ki guarantee’ (Kejriwal’s guarantee), with the promise on employment for … Read more

Hateful, baleful: On the Assam Chief Minister and communally sensitive remarks

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Hate speech, especially by elected authorities and targeting a specific community, has been repeatedly flagged as a possible trigger for ethnic conflagrations and atrocities that could have catastrophic consequences. Politicians in India are well aware of this but this does not deter the most cynical among them from using hate speech to further a polarising … Read more

Delhi polls 2025: Majority of candidates contesting Delhi polls in 41-50 age range, says ADR

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Association for Democratic Reforms. File The majority of candidates contesting the assembly election in Delhi are in the 41-50 age group, according to poll rights body ADR. The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has released its report on the academic qualifications of the candidates contesting the February 5 election. The report highlights trends in age … Read more

​Growth matrix: On the economy’s performance

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The first official gauge of the economy’s performance so far in 2024-25 pegs real GDP growth at 6.7% between April and June, a five-quarter low and below the central bank’s projection. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which expects a 7.2% GDP growth through 2024-25 following last year’s 8.2% surge, had revised its estimate for … Read more

Delhi Assembly Elections 2025: Sex workers on Delhi’s GB Road hoping their voices get heard by new government

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Shradhanand Marg (GB) Road | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Hundreds of sex workers cramped up in Delhi’s GB Road, the city’s red light area, struggle for basic civic amenities like reliable electricity, clean drinking water, and sanitary living conditions, every day of their lives. As political parties gear up for assembly polls on February … Read more

Another escalation: The Hindu Editorial on the Manipur ground report

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In a significant deterioration of an already fraught situation in Manipur, two persons were killed and at least nine were injured in a bomb attack using drones in villages in the Meitei-majority Imphal West district. The perpetrators are believed to be Kuki-Zo militants. Kuki-Zo groups and partisans have claimed that the attacks were in retaliation … Read more

BJP, AAP, Cong. dominate richest candidates list; top two have assets over ₹200 crore: ADR report

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Karnail Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee from north Delhi’s Shakur Basti seat with ₹259 crore assets, is the richest of the 699 candidates fighting the February 5 Assembly election, according to a report released on Monday by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). The report also stated that five candidates have assets of … Read more

With or without Chinese companies is the question

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‘Chinese brands contain a range of applications catering to the diverse Indian tastes’ | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Notwithstanding the government’s coalition status after the 2024 general election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sounded confident in being able to carry forward his intention over the last decade to transform India into a global manufacturing hub. … Read more

BJP unleashes star-studded campaign to outdo AAP

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BJP leader Ravi Kishan campaigning for a party candidate in the Capital on Monday. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Intensifying its campaign in the Capital, the Bharatiya Janata Party organised 26 public meetings on Monday. Star campaigners from the party hit the ground running, attacked AAP and appealed for power shift so that the city could leap ahead with a double-engine government. Rajasthan … Read more

Delhi Assembly Election highlights: Manish Sisodia ran away from seat as he was architect of liquor scam with Kejriwal, says Rahul Gandhi

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As the Delhi Assembly elections draw near, voters in the Jangpura constituency remain divided on who will emerge victorious. Residents in the area have expressed mixed opinions about their current representatives, citing ongoing issues like poor civic management, lack of safety, and insufficient engagement from elected officials. The 2020 elections saw Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) … Read more

Democratic engagement with a digital plug-in

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Imagine a summer evening in the United Kingdom, right before the Brexit referendum. Social media was flooded with posts and advertisements, each one more eye-catching than the other. But among these, a campaign called ‘Leave.EU’ began to stand out. The messages played on fears, hopes, and a sense of lost identity. ‘Leave.EU’ harnessed digital platforms … Read more

 Milestones and U-turns: On the government in its third term

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As their third term in office gathers pace, the Narendra Modi government and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are eager to claim a seamless continuity with the first two terms, as a mark of effective governance and leadership. The government and the party have used the arbitrary 100-day milestone to showcase their achievements in various … Read more

Kejriwal urges Centre to enact law banning loan waivers for corporates

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AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanding a nationwide law to prohibit the waiver of loans given to billionaires. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday (January 28, 2025), Mr. Kejriwal criticised the central government, … Read more

The misplaced move of ‘one nation one election’

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The idea of simultaneous elections, to the Lok Sabha, the State Assemblies and the local bodies, was thrown up by the Prime Minister a couple of years ago. Frequent Assembly and local body elections kept him busy on the campaign trail in some parts of the country most of the time. This experience may have … Read more

​Healthy sign: On the voting in the 2024 J&K Assembly elections

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One of the salubrious stories of Indian democracy has always been the regular and uninterrupted conduct of general and Assembly elections across provinces. Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was an aberration with no Assembly elections which should have been held five years ago. Thankfully, this denial of a key democratic process came to an end after … Read more

​Flipping scripts: On the Haryana and J&K election results  

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Contrary to pollsters’ predictions, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has managed to retain power in Haryana by increasing its seats from 40 to 48 and vote share from 36.5% to 39.9%, securing a third consecutive term. The Congress’s vote share also accrued a whopping 11 points to register 39.1% but its seat tally increased marginally, … Read more