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7 of 10 Haryana municipal corporations go for women mayors as BJP routs Congress

The Congress lost Rohtak, a stronghold of former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, and Sirsa, where party MP Kumari Selja wields influence.

What AAP’s defeat in Delhi could mean for Punjab & Bhagwant Mann

AAP had registered a phenomenal victory in Punjab in the 2022 assembly elections, winning 92 of 117 seats. The state will next go to polls in 2027.

What was the centerpiece of BJP’s perfect plan to win Delhi? A slogan that disappeared after LS polls

The other key ingredient was that the party decided to fight the elections without a CM face.

Delhi’s Muslim voters didn’t abandon AAP. Party fell short of perfect score due to vote-cutter AIMIM

BJP won Mustafabad, but it was courtesy AIMIM which emerged as a vote cutter. While AAP had Muslim candidates in five seats, Congress had six such candidates.

With Congress behind AAP losses in 13 Delhi seats, allies question future of INDIA bloc

While Congress’s high command initially intervened to get its Delhi leaders to tone down their attacks on AAP, by the end, even Rahul Gandhi ran an aggressive campaign against Kejriwal.

BJP wins in Delhi’s SC-reserved seats for the 1st time in 10 yrs, scores 4 of 12 amid Ambedkar row

AAP had slammed BJP over Home Minister Amit Shah’s controversial remarks on Babasaheb Ambedkar. The Dalit community constitutes over 16% of Delhi’s population.

BJP learnt from its mistakes. Here are 5 key strategies it used to dethrone AAP in Delhi

BJP made a comeback in the capital after 27 yrs. From targeting Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘aam aadmi’ image to ‘freebies’ for women, the party majorly changed its poll strategy to achieve this.

Delhi polls: Owaisi’s AIMIM helps BJP clinch Mustafabad, finishes third in Okhla

In Mustafabad, Tahir Hussain polled 33,474 votes, while Shifa-ur-Rehman Khan secured 39,558 votes in Okhla.

BJP poised for a comeback in Delhi after 27 years, ending AAP’s dream run

AAP, born out of an anti-corruption movement that had swept urban India over a decade ago, is poised to lose power in a make-or-break election in the capital after 10 yrs in office.

Kejriwal, Sisodia to Saurabh Bharadwaj, AAP giants have fallen. A look at party’s rise & fall in Capital

Saturday's setback will now put to the test the AAP’s much-vaunted claim that it is not wedded to any ideology except the 'politics of work'.

On Camera

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.