

Sunday 3 May '09
Addressing his very first rally in the run-up to the elections in Delhi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani held Gujarat’s flag high.Saturday 2 May '09
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looks set to go to polls without canvassing from two of the saffron party’s star campaigners — Narendra Modi and actor Hema Malini.Thursday
30 April '09Weeks after his appointment as the party in-charge of Assam elections had kicked up a storm in the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership, Sudhanshu Mittal is busy with Delhi elections — more specifically the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat.Sunday
26 April '09At 9.30 am, BJP candidate from South Delhi, Ramesh Bidhuri, has already completed two rounds of meetings, one, a usual morning walk at Saket city forest and the second, a meeting with workers.Thursday
23 April '09Congress candidate Ramesh Kumar’s election campaign kicked off on Wednesday in the long shadow of his elder brother Sajjan — sidelined this term by the ghosts of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.Wednesday
22 April '09Jai Prakash Aggarwal, the Congress’s Delhi chief, may have started a hectic campaign in Northeast Delhi but the party is expected to have a hard time attracting Muslims votes.Wednesday
22 April '09Months after BSP’s Kanwar Singh Tanwar tried to win his way into the Assembly by supplying free water to a parched Chhatarpur, water remains arguably the biggest issue in much of his new constituency for the general elections: South Delhi.Thursday
16 April '09Less than a month after his supporters gheraoed BJP leader L K Advani’s house after his name did not figure in the Lok Sabha candidates list, Parvesh Verma has been promoted.Wednesday
15 April '09Amid the bustle for the Lok Sabha elections, Delhi’s Mayor Arti Mehra will quietly make her exit next week. Mehra has been the Mayor for two consecutive terms.Tuesday
14 April '09Asserting that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was suffering from “inferiority complex”, BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley on Monday stepped in...Sunday
12 April '09On Saturday, B L Sharma ‘Prem’, the BJP candidate from Northeast Delhi seat, was the first among the Congress and BJP nominees to file his nomination.Friday
10 April '09With both Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tyler out, the Congress might be in a tight spot. For the BJP, however, it is good news.Thursday
9 April '09Inspired by journalist Jarnail Singh’s method of protest, more people from the Sikh community are now couriering shoes to 10 Janpath...Tuesday
7 April '09Around 10 am on October 21, 1951, nearly 200 people, most of whom were affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Arya Samaj, meet at the Raghu Mal Arya Girl's Senior Secondary School to lay the foundations of the Jan Sangh party.Saturday
4 April '09In 1967, when he was elected as the Chief Executive Councillor at the age of 35, Vijay Kumar Malhotra was widely considered ‘too young’ for the post.Wednesday
1 April '09Exam fever has hit the BJP’s initiative of taking their prime ministerial candidate L K Advani’s ideas to colleges and universities across India.....Sunday
29 March '09The Delhi Government has decided to take the Delhi Urban Art Commission head on by reviving both the East-West corridor and the ITO flyover projects.Tuesday
24 March '09At 80, he still believes in an Akhand Bharat (unified India with Pakistan and Bangladesh on its two wings) and having ‘retired’ from politics 12 years ago he rejoined the BJP a day before the party announced its seven Lok Sabha candidates from Delhi.Tuesday
24 March '09In the by-lanes of Gaffar Market, 55-year-old P L Arora presides over his cluttered stall. Two years ago, he was sewing sports shoes in a factory....Saturday
21 March '09Fissures within the Bharatiya Janata Party came out on the Capital’s streets on Friday, less than 24 hours after the party announced its seven Lok Sabha candidates for Delhi.Friday
20 March '09After over two months of internal bickering, the Bharatiya Janta Party announced the names of its candidates for the seven Parliamentary seats in Delhi.Tuesday
17 March '09After more than three weeks of serious discussions, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Delhi unit hasn’t reached a consensus on the tickets for the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi — the New Delhi seat is the main bone of contention.Saturday
14 March '09Sudhanshu Mittal — businessman politician, proud to be called a tentwallah — is creating a few ripples after his re-emergence on the political scene.Tuesday
10 March '09In a major embarrassment for the police department, computers containing security plans for next year’s Commonwealth Games have been stolen from the office of Delhi Police’s Joint Commissioner for the Games, J K Sharma.Monday
9 March '09The Delhi Police motto may be “With you, for you, always”, but many in the force have to conduct their day-to-day work without even the most basic requirement — a police station.