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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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.

SC directs Centre to immediately deploy additional forces in Tripura as civic polls begin

Opposition TMC and CPI(M) told a Supreme Court bench that its candidates and supporters are allegedly not being allowed to cast votes in the Tripura municipal polls Thursday.

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

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.