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TopicDelhi Assembly Elections 2025

Topic: Delhi Assembly Elections 2025

Fact Check: AAP’s Avadh Ojha didn’t imply party leader Manish Sisodia’s a ‘coward’, video clip altered

The viral clip was altered to include Ojha's reply to an unrelated question, making it seem like he was responding to one about the former Deputy CM not contesting from Patparganj seat.

CM Atishi accused of violating model code of conduct, FIR filed on Delhi BJP leader’s complaint

It is alleged in the complaint that the Delhi CM used govt vehicle for political purposes, however she has not been booked. The FIR mentions executive engineer Sanjay Kumar as accused. 

Fact Check: Suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma didn’t campaign in poll-bound Delhi, viral video is old

A video of Sharma wearing a saffron scarf & holding a saffron flag was shared on X with the claim that she has entered the Delhi Assembly elections. Video dates back to January 2024.

AAP’s Rs 2,100 poll promise to women isn’t getting much traction in Delhi. It’s a Punjab-sized problem

The Opposition is leveraging this. Across Delhi, posters put up by BJP 'exposing AAP's lies' have made their way into the narrowest of bylanes.

Cracks widen in INDIA bloc as allies isolate Congress, back AAP for Delhi polls & question coalition

Non-Congress parties of national-level alliance have been cornering the principal opposition party, most have also announced support for Team Kejriwal & flagged lack of cohesion in bloc.

Delhi BJP has many freebies up its sleeve for polls. Rs 2,500 for women, free bus travel for elderly

Delhi BJP manifesto committee has sent recommendations to central leadership for approval, it is learnt. Panel has also recommended free power for places of worship up to 500 units.

Delhi will vote on 5 February, counting on 8th. How results may reshape national politics

Election Commission's announcement sets the stage for showdown between ruling AAP and BJP, while Congress struggles to regain lost ground in national capital.

In the fray with AAP, Congress high command draws red line for Delhi unit—‘don’t speak BJP language’

Ajay Maken was to hold press meet Sunday to elaborate on why he called Arvind Kejriwal ‘anti-national’. However, he called off the meet after high command's intervention, it is learnt.

Priyanka’s ‘cheeks’ to Atishi ‘changing her father’, BJP’s Bidhuri makes sexist barbs one after another

BJP's Kalkaji candidate Ramesh Bidhuri made the remarks regarding Delhi CM Atishi during a rally Sunday. AAP says Bidhuri's comment 'exposes BJP’s anti-women mindset'.

‘People of Delhi Dehat waiting to take revenge from BJP,’ Kejriwal hits back at Modi’s ‘AAP-DA’ remark

Arvind Kejriwal accused the Centre of not abrogating Section 81 and Section 33 of the Delhi Land Reforms Act and not implementing the long-awaited land-pooling policy.

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Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?