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MCD is hard at work but Delhi’s looming landfills unlikely to go by G20 summit

MCD aims to flatten Okhla and Bhalswa landfills by Dec 2023, and Ghazipur by March 2024. G20 has led to calls to finish Okhla work by Sept. Experts say even 5 years not enough.

AAP, BJP clash in Delhi civic body meet, capital has to wait longer for next mayor

House proceedings to swear in newly-elected councillors, and mayor polls were abruptly stopped after hours-long clashes on Friday.

AAP, BJP clash over aldermen appointment during first meeting of new Delhi civic body

The BJP councillors retaliated by raising slogans against AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal as the party members returned fire by sloganeering against PM Narendra Modi.

With MCD deputy mayor candidate Aaley Iqbal, AAP’s Muslim voter outreach in Delhi

The selection of Iqbal, a councillor from Chandni Mahal ward, is being seen as a political message to the Muslim voters who shifted towards the Congress in the recent MCD elections.  

Our take on AAP MCD win, Udaipur G20 meet and protests against Vizhinjam project—in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

Cleanliness, ‘non performance’ top issues for voters in high-stakes Delhi civic poll

This is the first municipal election in Delhi since the reunification of three municipal corporations earlier this year. The BJP has held on to power in the MCD for 15 years.

Where is India’s politics headed? Just wait for the result of 2022 Delhi civic body polls

AAP can win the 2022 MCD election even if the BJP manages to hold on to a large section of its 2017 vote share. Here's how.

As BJP, AAP bet on star power & big issues in MCD polls, Congress goes low-key with local focus

In absence of star campaigners, Congress candidates are relying on 'ward-specific manifestos' & Bharat Jodo Yatra to garner votes. Local election requires local leaders, they claim.

Sachin Pilot to Kanhaiya Kumar — in Delhi, Congress brings out big guns to reclaim lost MCD glory

Congress ruled MCD till 2007, but then started losing the polls. It was Sheila Dikshit-led Congress govt in Delhi which trifurcated MCD in 2012, to be reunified by Modi govt earlier this year.

Modi inaugurates flats for Delhi slum-dwellers as BJP works to wrest civic poll votes from AAP

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday inaugurated 3,024 flats for families falling under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category in the capital, handing over...

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.