Politics

Only three seats, which were among 12 constituencies where Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addressed rallies, were bagged by the BJP. The party won eight seats as against the 62 by the AAP.

Chidambaram said the clarification was sought on four numbers that are on the first page of Budget at a Glance.

All candidates of the three Bihar-based parties, which teamed up with the BJP or the Congress, lost from their seats.

In a twist though, the deputy CM is now leading against BJP’s Ravinder Singh Negi by 3,129 votes after trailing for a while in Patparganj.

The BSP contested its first assembly polls of Delhi in 1993, with candidates on 55 seats and bagged 1.88% votes.

Opposotion leaders argued that since 2014 when the Narendra Modi government assumed power at the Centre, there has been a sustained attack on the reservation for STs and SCs.

Addressing a rally, MNS chief Raj Thackeray warned of giving a "befitting reply" to rallies being held against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed India-wide National Register of Citizens.

Parameswaran's role in organising Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) in Kerala and the National Council meeting at Kozhikode in 1967 heralded the entry of the party into the state.

Basti DM Ashutosh Niranjan said that if the renaming takes place, the cost incurred would be an estimated Rs 1 crore.

According to the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) voter turnout app, the total turnout in Delhi was recorded at 61% till 10:20pm, a decline over the 2015 polls when a 67.12 per cent of the voters came out to vote.

Minister Botsa Satyanarayana said the government was going ahead with decentralisation (of administration) in accordance with the law, implying that the move to have three capitals for the state was very much on.

BJP leader Pravin Darekar said crimes against women are increasing under the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government. The woman was killed by five people who hanged her corpse to make it look like a suicide.

The highest number of centenarians, 21, were found in West Delhi district and the lowest, seven, in New Delhi district, a senior official of the Delhi CEO office said.

National Conference leader and former minister Ali Mohammed Sagar, former NC legislator Bashir Ahmed Veeri, and Sartaj Madani, the maternal uncle of PDP chief and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, were on Thursday booked under the PSA.

Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh said the party has filed a complaint regarding the news that many BJP parliamentarians are staying at different constituencies whereas 'they should leave after 6 p.m.'

DMK leader K Kanimozhi hit out at FM Nirmala Sitharaman for 'going out of way to rename Indus Valley civilisation as Saraswati Sindhu civilisation' and asked the government to leave such work to scholars and historians.