NEW DELHI: After BJP’s emphatic win, the spotlight has turned to the all-important question of who is going to be the next chief minister.While many names, including those of party MPs from Delhi, were doing the rounds, there were indications that the party brass may pick someone from among the winning MLAs to avoid two…
Delhi’s is among the smallest of many elections held in the world’s largest democracy – but on Saturday, the national capital sent out some massive national political messages.First, BJP’s post-Lok Sabha elections loss of lustre is now a firmly closed chapter. Modi is back again as a political super-force and the most saleable political brand….
NEW DELHI: With all states in National Capital Region now having BJP govts, a slew of projects will be taken up for improving mobility and infrastructure across the region, PM Narendra Modi said on Saturday.The PM’s announcement is likely to give the long-awaited push to the two Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) corridors – connecting…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal, while accepting the party’s defeat in the Assembly elections on Saturday, mentioned that its govt had brought change in Delhi in health, education and other utilities and would continue to work as a constructive opposition.“My party did a lot of work in the last 10 years…
NEW DELHI: Delhi government officials rubbished rumours that the secretariat in the national capital was being sealed after an order went out on Saturday from the general administration department (GAD) that barred the removal of any important document and computer hardware from the premises.GAD cited safety concerns, and said that documents, files and hardware like…
NEW DELHI: In the narrow lanes of northeast Delhi’s Sunder Nagri, the air crackled with conversations – not about the local election, but about Arvind Kejriwal’s defeat. Though he didn’t lose from this constituency, the people here – who once propelled him to political stardom – spoke of his downfall as if it were their…
JAIPUR: A man’s attempt to secure a govt job for his wife through ‘illegal’ channel might lead to the exposure of a major recruitment scam in railways.Manish Meena, a resident of Kota, approached railway authorities about eight months ago, alleging that his wife, Asha Meena, secured a railway job using a dummy candidate—someone who took…
NEW DELHI: BJP has won the highest number of reserved seats since 1993, bagging 4 out of the 12 Scheduled Caste (SC) constituencies.The party, for the first time, has also won Mangolpuri, which is an SC seat.The SC seats are Gokalpur, Seemapuri, Mangolpuri, Sultanpur Majra, Bawana, Karol Bagh, Patel Nagar, Deoli, Ambedkar Nagar, Madipur, Kondli…
NEW DELHI: BJP, which won the majority of seats in the Delhi assembly elections, saw four out of its nine women candidates emerging victorious. However, the total number of women elected dropped from eight in 2020 to five this year. This time, the five women who emerged victorious include four from BJP and one from…
NEW DELHI: The 2025 assembly election was a closely fought one with BJP and AAP putting up a great fight in almost all assembly constituencies, but the final results were decisive. Despite a small difference of just 2.6% in the vote share, BJP won 48 of 70 seats while AAP was reduced to only 22.There…
