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Monday, January 26, 2026
TopicMunicipal elections

Topic: municipal elections

Who is really running Nagpur & Mumbai? Influencers, proxy corporators, not civic council

Over 60% of Indian cities are left ‘orphaned’ without elected urban governments. Citizen groups, civic influencers, and informal ‘nagarsevaks’ are filling the gaps in Mumbai and Nagpur.

Over 60 Muslim BJP candidates win UP municipal polls. Party calls it victory, experts say ‘tokenism’

BJP fielded 395 Muslim candidates. Party now says community no longer harbours 'doubts' about them, while analysts say BJP has fielded Muslim candidates only in lower level of govt.

Yogi hails ‘massive win’ as BJP gets 17/17 mayoral seats in UP municipal polls, SP & BSP draw blanks

Out of the BJP's mayoral candidates, 14 were new while the party had placed bets on the outgoing mayors in Kanpur, Bareilly and Moradabad.

BJP wins in MP municipal polls but loses 4 crucial mayoral seats. Congress wrests 3 & AAP 1

BJP leaders say this should be a wake up call for the party ahead of next year’s assembly elections, cite ‘infighting’ and ‘lack of management’ in handling of polls.

BJP & allies win landslide in Guwahati civic polls, AAP gets 1 seat, zero for Congress

BJP & Asom Gana Parishad won 58 out of 60 wards in municipal polls held Friday after 9-year gap. Lurinjyoti Gogoi-led Assam Jatiya Parishad got 1 seat.

In Bommai’s first test as CM, BJP wins Belagavi but falls short in 2 other municipal polls

CM Basavaraj Bommai and many senior leaders hail from Hubballi Dharwad, but BJP fell short of majority. It won Belagavi, while Congress finished first in Kalaburagi.

Gujarat municipal polls prove BJP’s unshakeable grip, AAP still has a long way to go

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40 rallies in 14 days: Yogi begins his marathon campaign for civic polls

Yogi Adityanath is the first UP chief minister to campaign for local body elections, calls these polls a referendum on his 7-month-old government.

On Camera

Mark Tully was a colossus on the Indian subcontinent. He had sources at all levels

I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

Shaurya Chakra for Lt Col who led op to ‘eliminate’ terror leadership along Indo-Myanmar border

President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.