Politics

Voting for the 70-member Delhi Assembly will be held at over 13,000 polling booths across the city, from 8 am to 6 pm on Saturday.

Calling the Bodo Accord a victory for peace, Modi said his government had agreed to every demand in the deal and now the biggest focus will be development of the region.

Amit Shah has held 47 election meetings that included 35 rallies and nine road shows. Besides, JP Nadda took part in around 40 meetings and road shows.

Mufti, Omar Abdullah and his father, Farooq, have been in detention since August 5 last year when the BJP-led central government revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special status by abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution.

In Rajya Sabha, PM Modi said the NPR was first done in 2010 and later updated in 2015. He said census and NPR are 'usual administrative' processes which have been carried out previously as well but have now suddenly become contentious.

Replying to the debate in Rajya Sabha on a motion thanking the president for his address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament, he said for the first time in decades, people of Jammu and Kashmir got benefits of reservation.

An editorial in the forthcoming edition of party mouthpiece Peoples Democracy has said that because of this 'prejudiced' attitude of the Centre, Kerala is experiencing a serious financial crisis.

Chidambaram said one of the fundamental ideas for a modern democracy is secularism and it is under challenge along with citizenship today. He said secularism is being challenged to a point where citizenship has also become an object of attack.

Mehbooba's daughter Iltija Mufti has been operating her mother's Twitter account since September 20 following the detention of the former chief minister in the wake of abrogation of article 370 provisions on August 5 last year.

Lashing out at the BJP, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel said the saffron party was doing what it did best, i.e., dividing the country on religious lines.

Manmohan Singh, a noted economist, also said that unemployment rate in Delhi in the last four months was 15 per cent, much higher than what was elsewhere.

Adequate deployment of Police forces and CAPF companies is being done and protest sites are under watch to ensure that no obstructions for polling personnel or voters would hamper movement on the election day.

Vijayan's mention of Islamic outfit the Social Democratic Party of India during question hour triggered a war of words with the Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front.

Participating in the discussion on Motion of Thanks on President's address, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi said that a BJP member is making remarks about shooting and terming Indian people as traitors.

He was to attend a civic felicitation programme on Sunday, Telangana minister Indrakaran Reddy said. When everyone was waiting for him, the news about his demise came.

In electoral politics, effective slogans — as history demonstrates — succinctly re-iterate palpable social tensions to make a sense of it all to the electorate.