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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Inherent contradictions have a way of showing up at irregular intervals. In the ruling coalition in Maharashtra, the Mahayuti, the tensions between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by Ajit Pawar, are visible to all. The setback the coalition faced in the … Read more
Kapil Mishra interview: Delhi elections | Video Credit: The Hindu After remaining in the shadows for some time, BJP leader Kapil Mishra found himself back on the centre stage earlier this month when the party announced his name from north-east Delhi’s Karawal Nagar Assembly seat for the February 5 Assembly election. It is the … Read more
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
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
‘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 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
Meeting for the second time after the 2024 general election results, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Monday (September 9, 2024) sought to calm some of the rising clamour against the 18% indirect tax levy on insurance premium payments. A new Group of Ministers is being formed to urgently recommend tax changes for … Read more
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
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
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav along with his party MPs will campaign for the AAP candidates ahead of the Delhi Assembly polls. File | Photo Credit: PTI Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav will join Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal for a roadshow in Rithala on Thursday. Several MPs of the SP, … Read more
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
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 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
774 cases of alleged MCC violations and confiscated 374 illegal firearms and 453 cartridges have been registered with Delhi Police. Image used for representational purposes. | Photo Credit: AP More than 770 cases of alleged violations of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) have been registered ahead of the February 5 Delhi Assembly polls, an … Read more
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
Gurugram: BJP workers stage a protest against AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal, in Gurugram on Tuesday, January 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The Haryana BJP on Tuesday (January 28, 2025) held protests in the state against AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal’s remarks that the BJP is “mixing poison in the Yamuna”, with saffron party leaders … Read more
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
Police personnel outside Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s Kapurthala House residence, in New Delhi on January 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday (January 30, 2025) claimed that a team of Election Commission officials reached Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s Kapurthala House residence in Delhi for a search. A … Read more
AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal addresses a public meeting in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: PTI/@AamAadmiParty The Election Commission of India (ECI) has asked Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal to provide factual evidence to substantiate his allegation that the Yamuna river was being poisoned by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled neighbouring State of … Read more
By winning a third consecutive term in Haryana, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demonstrated that its pole position in the Hindi heartland remains intact. Its failure to win an absolute majority in the 2024 general election has not eroded its social base, and in Haryana, it increased its vote share when compared to the … Read more
The Congress did not protect the interests of the Dalits and backwards the way it should have in the 1990s, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday (January 30, 2025). Addressing a programme organised by Dalit influencers in New Delhi, Mr. Gandhi said merely getting political representation for the Dalits and … Read more
Most of the area’s residents belong to Scheduled Caste communities and work in the New Delhi Municipal Corporation. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP Party flags in New Delhi’s Valmiki Basti change every few minutes, reflecting the hectic political activity in the constituency from which Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal is seeking re-election … Read more