More than 860 cases of alleged violations of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) have been registered ahead of the February 5 Delhi Assembly polls, an official said on Thursday. The cases were lodged between January 7, when the MCC came into force, and January 29. A total of 27,551 people have been arrested during … Read more
2024 has been the election year. India along with over 60 more nations went to the polls. Taking centre stage, the much-anticipated Lok Sabha election in April-May and Assembly polls in at least eight States had set a politically charged environment across the nation. The year also saw the return of the democratic electoral process in … Read more
Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi shows a copy of the constitution during a public meeting ahead of the Delhi Assembly Elections, at Bawana in New Delhi on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: ANI With seven days left for voting for the Delhi Assembly election, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday ratcheted up … Read more
AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal addresses a press conference, in New Delhi, on January 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday (January 30, 2025) wrote to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal, asking him to not mix the issue of increased Ammonia levels in Yamuna water with … Read more
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. The Madras High Court asked why he was encouraging other women to be hermitesses when his own daughter was married | Photo Credit: K.R. Deepak A cursory look at the most-read stories on The Hindu reflects readers’ diverse interests, offering a window into India’s defining moments of 2024. From ISRO’s satellite imagery … Read more
AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal addressing a gathering in Timarpur on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: @AamAadmiParty-X Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday led a no-holds-barred attack against the Congress, urging Delhi residents not to “waste” their votes on the grand old party. “Some people here are thinking about voting for Congress. … Read more
Image for representation | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (January 30, 2025) directed the Election Commission to ensure political parties and their candidates did not use any “vilifying” material during election campaigns. A bench of Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela said the State election officer, … Read more
‘The setback to the BJP in the general election, in hindsight, was more an irritant in the long arc of Hindutva than a rupture’ | Photo Credit: THE HINDU/RITU RAJ KONWAR The year 2024 began with the inauguration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, which was a culmination, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said … Read more
A file image AAP MLA Naresh Balyan | Photo Credit: ANI The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (January 29, 2025) refused to release AAP MLA Naresh Balyan, arrested in a Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) case, on custody parole to enable him to “guide” his wife contesting the upcoming assembly polls. Delhi Police … Read more